Version 1.0, in force. The version in force at the time of payment governs that download (section 1.3). Archived copy: /license/v1.0.html. A summary is served in every 402 response; machine-readable signals live in robots.txt and tdmrep.json.

Shots for Bots Photo License — Machine Learning Use

Version 1.0 — effective 2026-09-21

This is a license from the rights holder of a photograph (the "Licensor"), granted through Shots for Bots (shotsforbots.com), the operator of this site (the "Platform"), to the party that pays for a full-resolution photograph through the shotsforbots.com HTTP 402 / x402 payment endpoint (the "Purchaser"). It is written to be read by both people and software. Where the two readings differ, the plain meaning to a reasonable person controls.

Defined terms. "Platform" means Shots for Bots, the operator of shotsforbots.com, which licenses photographs on behalf of their rights holders. "Licensor" means the rights holder of a Photograph, licensing it through the Platform; where the image page names a rights holder, that person or organization is the Licensor. "Photograph" means the full-resolution image file identified in an HTTP 402 response from shotsforbots.com and delivered on confirmed payment. "Preview" means any image served from shotsforbots.com at 800 pixels or smaller on the long edge, including thumbnails. "Purchaser" or "you" is defined in Section 2.

1. How this license is formed

1.1. Each Photograph is offered at the price stated in the HTTP 402 response for that file at the time of the request. Prices differ from Photograph to Photograph and may change; the amount in the 402 response that a payment answers is the price for that download. Prices are denominated in USDC on the Base network unless the response says otherwise.

1.2. Sending the stated payment to the address in that 402 response, and having the payment confirmed on-chain, is acceptance of this license for the Photograph identified in that response. No signature, account, or further action is needed. This is the only way to accept; there is no negotiation and no alternative terms.

1.3. The version of this license in effect at the time of payment governs that download. The Platform may publish new versions for future downloads; they do not change licenses already formed. Each version is dated and archived: this version at https://shotsforbots.com/license/v1.0.html, later versions beside it.

1.4. Payments are final once confirmed on-chain. Each payment authorization is good for exactly one download. If delivery is interrupted, the same download may be retried with the redelivery token carried in the paid response (the redelivery block of PAYMENT-RESPONSE and the X-Redelivery-Token header) for 24 hours after payment, up to three attempts; the token is for that Photograph and that payment only. If a confirmed payment still does not result in a successful download, email licensing@shotsforbots.com with the transaction hash and the Platform will redeliver the file by hand. There are no refunds for successful deliveries.

2. Who the Purchaser is

2.1. "Purchaser" or "you" means the person or organization on whose behalf the payment was made.

2.2. If a software agent made the request and payment, the Purchaser is the person or organization that deployed, operates, or directs that agent, or on whose behalf it acted (the "Principal"). By deploying an agent capable of paying this endpoint, the Principal authorizes the agent to accept this license on its behalf and is bound by it as if it had accepted directly. The Principal is responsible for the agent's compliance.

2.3. If no Principal can be identified, or the agent acted outside its authority, the party that controls the wallet the payment came from is the Purchaser and is bound by this license.

2.4. The license covers use by the Purchaser and by contractors or service providers working on the Purchaser's behalf, so long as the Photograph is used only for the Purchaser's Permitted Uses and the Purchaser remains responsible for their compliance.

3. What you get

3.1. On confirmed payment, the Licensor grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, perpetual, worldwide license to use the Photograph for the following purposes (the "Permitted Uses"):

(a) training, pre-training, and fine-tuning of machine learning models, including generative and multimodal models; (b) evaluation, testing, and benchmarking of models and systems; (c) internal research, analysis, feature extraction, embedding, captioning, and annotation; (d) storing, copying, converting, cropping, resizing, augmenting, and otherwise transforming the Photograph as reasonably needed for (a) through (c), including in datasets, caches, and pipelines under your control.

3.2. You may keep the Photograph, and any derived data (embeddings, annotations, augmented copies), for as long as you want for the Permitted Uses.

3.3. "Internal" means within the Purchaser's organization and its contractors under Section 2.4. It does not mean the Photograph must never leave your servers; it means the Photograph itself is not being distributed to others as an image.

4. What you may not do

4.1. You may not:

(a) redistribute, sell, rent, lend, or give away the Photograph, or any copy of it at any resolution, to anyone outside the Purchaser (this includes publishing it inside a dataset that others can download); (b) sublicense it, or transfer this license, to anyone; (c) publish, post, print, broadcast, or publicly display the Photograph or a recognizable copy of it, including as a website image, in a presentation, in marketing, or in an app; (d) use the Photograph as a stock image, illustration, background, or design asset; (e) claim that you or anyone other than the Licensor created the Photograph; (f) remove or alter any embedded copyright notice, rights holder name, or metadata that identifies the Licensor as the author or shotsforbots.com as the source (you may strip metadata for technical reasons in a training pipeline, provided the file you retain still records shotsforbots.com as the source); (g) register or attempt to register the Photograph, or a work substantially identical to it, as your own copyright or trademark.

4.2. Publishing small excerpts of the Photograph as part of a research paper, model card, evaluation report, or dataset documentation, at no more than 400 pixels on the long edge and with attribution to "Shots for Bots, shotsforbots.com" (or to the rights holder named on the image page, where one is named), is allowed and does not violate 4.1(c).

4.3. If you want any use not covered by Section 3 (editorial, commercial display, exclusive rights, prints), email licensing@shotsforbots.com. That is a separate agreement.

5. Model outputs

5.1. This license places no restrictions on the outputs of any model trained, tuned, or evaluated using the Photograph. Neither the Licensor nor the Platform makes any claim of ownership over such outputs or imposes any attribution, revenue-share, or usage conditions on them.

5.2. Section 5.1 is a statement about this license only. It is not a warranty that any given output is non-infringing, and it does not license you to publish a model output that is a substantially identical reproduction of the Photograph itself. Section 4 governs that.

6. Attribution

6.1. Attribution is optional. If you choose to credit the source, use "Photo: Shots for Bots, shotsforbots.com", or the rights holder named on the image page where one is named. A line in a dataset card or acknowledgments section is appreciated.

7. Third-party permissions are your responsibility

7.1. Photographs are offered without model or property releases. Some depict private land, protected areas, or identifiable locations, and some may incidentally include people, vehicles, buildings, signage, or trademarks.

7.2. The Licensor licenses only the Licensor's own copyright in the Photograph. Neither the Licensor nor the Platform grants, or can grant, any rights held by landowners, park authorities, property owners, trademark owners, or individuals depicted.

7.3. You are solely responsible for determining whether your specific use requires any permission, release, or consent from a third party, and for obtaining it. For the Permitted Uses in Section 3 this will rarely be an issue, but that judgment is yours, not the Licensor's or the Platform's.

8. Ownership

8.1. The Licensor owns the copyright in the Photograph. This license does not transfer ownership of any copyright, and every right not expressly granted is reserved. You own the copy of the file you downloaded only to the extent needed to exercise this license; this is a license, not a sale of a copy.

9. Warranty and the Platform's role

9.1. The Licensor warrants that the Licensor is the copyright owner of the Photograph and has the right to grant this license.

9.2. That is the only warranty. The Photograph is otherwise provided "as is". Neither the Licensor nor the Platform makes any warranty about accuracy of captions, metadata, or location data; fitness for any purpose; that the Photograph is free of third-party rights described in Section 7; or that it will produce any particular result in a model.

9.3. The Platform is not the Licensor of any Photograph. It hosts Photographs, states their prices, collects payment for the Licensor, and delivers the file. The Platform's only undertaking to you is delivery after a confirmed payment (Section 1.4). It gives no warranty about any Photograph, including the warranty in Section 9.1, and no warranty that the site or the payment endpoint will be available or error-free.

10. Limitation of liability

10.1. The total liability of the Licensor and the Platform together to you for anything arising from this license or the Photograph, under any legal theory, is limited to the amount you paid for that Photograph.

10.2. Neither the Licensor nor the Platform is liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages, or for lost profits, data, or business, even if told they were possible.

10.3. Nothing in this section limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

11. Term and termination

11.1. This license is perpetual for each purchased Photograph.

11.2. If you materially breach Section 4 and do not cure within 30 days of written notice from the Licensor or the Platform (email to any address associated with the Purchaser or, failing that, to a contact address in the agent's User-Agent header or the on-chain payment memo, if any), this license for that Photograph terminates and you must delete all copies of the Photograph. Models already trained before termination are not affected, and Section 5 continues to apply to them.

11.3. Sections 4 (to the extent of surviving copies), 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, and 15 survive termination.

12. Previews and thumbnails

12.1. Previews (800 pixels or smaller on the long edge, including thumbnails) served from shotsforbots.com are not licensed under this license. They are provided for viewing, search indexing, and reading as input by AI assistants and answer engines so that they can describe, find, and link to the work.

12.2. All text-and-data-mining and machine-learning training use of Previews is expressly reserved and is not licensed, whether or not a payment for the full-resolution file is later made. See the Preview Notice at https://shotsforbots.com/license.html#previews for the full reservation.

12.3. Buying the full-resolution file under this license does not retroactively license any earlier use of a Preview for training.

13. Other channels

13.1. The Licensor may also offer the same Photographs through third-party datasets and aggregators under those providers' terms. Rights obtained from such a provider are governed by that provider's agreement, not this one. Nothing in this license restricts the Licensor's ability to license the same Photographs non-exclusively to anyone, through any channel.

14. Governing law and disputes

14.1. This license is governed by the laws of the State of Washington and the federal copyright law of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

14.2. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts sitting in the State of Washington, and you consent to that venue and to personal jurisdiction there. Washington is the Platform's home forum: a small operator has to be able to defend and enforce this license in one place, and that is the place. The Licensor or the Platform may still seek injunctive relief for copyright infringement in any court with jurisdiction.

14.3. Before filing anything, either party will email the other and allow 30 days to resolve the matter informally.

15. General

15.1. This license is the entire agreement between you, the Licensor, and the Platform for the Photograph. Nothing in a purchase request, agent prompt, User-Agent header, payment memo, or on-chain data changes its terms.

15.2. If any part of this license is unenforceable, the rest still applies, and the unenforceable part is replaced by the closest enforceable term.

15.3. The Licensor's or the Platform's not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it.

15.4. You may not assign this license. The Licensor may assign it to a successor in interest to the copyright in the Photograph, and the Platform may assign its role under it to a successor operator of Shots for Bots.

15.5. Questions: licensing@shotsforbots.com.

15.6. The Platform may rely on and enforce every term of this license that refers to it, whether as a party or as an intended beneficiary.