Meaning
Royalty-free describes a licensing arrangement, not a declaration that a file is free of charge or free of conditions.
A practical example
A paid library may offer repeated uses under a purchased license while still imposing limits on redistribution or sensitive contexts.
What to check
Do not equate the phrase with public domain. Preserve the actual agreement and the permitted audience, media and distribution scope.
For a related planning or text task, open the source attribution builder. The tool has its own limits; its result is not a measurement or approval of every concept described here.
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Continue: Sources and attribution
- Source attribution builder
- What to record from a Wikimedia Commons file page before editing
- Review individual NASA media credits instead of assuming every file is identical
- Primary source
- Secondary source
- Provenance
- Format supplied source records into a credit draft
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