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For Pexels, Unsplash and Pixabay content, what do the licence texts say about attribution, modification and redistribution?

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Pexels, Unsplash and Pixabay all say attribution is not required and allow modification, each restricting redistribution of unaltered copies or use to build a competing service in its own words; Pixabay states its summary is not binding (only the full Content License is). None of these is a CC licence, and none licenses non-copyright rights in people or marks shown. Curator qualifications: Licence/help pages read 2026-10-22 via archived and live copies; not legal advice; platform terms change. Exact prohibited-use lists and Pexels Terms CC0 mention from producer reading; Pixabay full licence not re-read. Limitations: Licence/help pages read 2026-10-22 via archived and live copies; not legal advice; platform terms change. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261016214421id_/https://www.pexels.com/license/",
      "note": "Pexels licence (IA id_ 20261016214421); Unsplash licence (IA id_ 20261017163208), Longform; Pixabay Content License Summary (IA id_ 20261016153634)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261008025216id_/https://www.pexels.com/terms-of-service/",
      "note": "Pexels licence (IA id_ 20261016214421); Unsplash licence (IA id_ 20261017163208), Longform; Pixabay Content License Summary (IA id_ 20261016153634)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261017163208id_/https://unsplash.com/license",
      "note": "Pexels licence (IA id_ 20261016214421); Unsplash licence (IA id_ 20261017163208), Longform; Pixabay Content License Summary (IA id_ 20261016153634)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260925133330id_/https://unsplash.com/terms",
      "note": "Pexels licence (IA id_ 20261016214421); Unsplash licence (IA id_ 20261017163208), Longform; Pixabay Content License Summary (IA id_ 20261016153634)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261016153634id_/https://pixabay.com/service/license-summary/",
      "note": "Pexels licence (IA id_ 20261016214421); Unsplash licence (IA id_ 20261017163208), Longform; Pixabay Content License Summary (IA id_ 20261016153634)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015084621id_/https://pixabay.com/service/terms/",
      "note": "Pexels licence (IA id_ 20261016214421); Unsplash licence (IA id_ 20261017163208), Longform; Pixabay Content License Summary (IA id_ 20261016153634)"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Pexels, Unsplash and Pixabay all say attribution is not required and allow modification, each restricting redistribution of unaltered copies or use to build a competing service in its own words; Pixabay states its summary is not binding (only the full Content License is). None of these is a CC licence, and none licenses non-copyright rights in people or marks shown. · locator: Pexels licence (IA id_ 20261016214421); Unsplash licence (IA id_ 20261017163208), Longform; Pixabay Content License Summary (IA id_ 20261016153634) source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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