Wallpaper licences

All rights reserved — free as a personal wallpaper

The artist keeps every right to the wallpaper. You may:

• use it as a background, wallpaper, lock screen or screensaver on your own devices;
• keep copies of it for that use.

Without the artist’s written permission, you may not:

• sell it, print it for sale, or use it in a product, service, advertisement or brand;
• share or upload it anywhere else (other wallpaper sites, apps, packs), changed or not;
• remove the artist’s credit or present it as your own work;
• use it to train AI models or put it in a dataset.

Want to use it another way? Ask its artist: “Contact the artist” is on each wallpaper’s page and at the end of the artist’s page.

Preserved from InterfaceLIFT — personal wallpaper use

Some wallpapers were first published on InterfaceLIFT.com, a wallpaper community, from 2003 to about 2018. When it closed, its wallpapers stayed in the public Internet Archive, and they were preserved from there. They’re marked “From InterfaceLIFT.com” and credited to their original artists.

Their original terms aren’t known, so no licence is claimed for them. WallpaperLIFT doesn’t own them and grants no rights to them: use them only as a wallpaper on your own devices.

Are you the artist or the rights holder of one of them, and don’t want it here? Use “Request removal” on its page: we review every request.

For artists: choosing a licence

You choose the licence of each wallpaper you submit. The form starts on your default licence, which you set in your settings’ Wallpapers tab.

You can change a wallpaper’s licence at any time, from its page. The new licence applies from then on.

A Creative Commons licence can’t be withdrawn: people who downloaded the wallpaper under it keep the rights it gave them.

Your wallpaper settings

Part A — Submission licence

Version 0.1 · Effective October 13, 2026

This licence is between you (the person submitting the work, “you”) and the operator of WallpaperLIFT.com (“WallpaperLIFT”, “we”, “us”). It applies to every image and the accompanying text you submit to WallpaperLIFT (your “Work”).

A1. You keep ownership

You keep all copyright and other rights in your Work. Nothing in this licence transfers ownership of your Work to us.

A2. What you allow us to do

When you submit a Work, you grant WallpaperLIFT a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence, for as long as the Work is published on WallpaperLIFT, to:

1. host and store the Work and copies of it on our servers and service providers (for example cloud storage and content-delivery networks);
2. make technical adaptations needed to run the service: resize, crop to other aspect ratios, convert formats, compress, and generate thumbnails and previews. These copies carry no embedded metadata. Your original file is kept privately and is never offered for download; its camera data is stored but never served with a file. We show the photo’s location on the wallpaper’s page unless you turn it off, when you submit or at any time afterwards;
3. display the Work, its title, description, tags, photo information and your name or username on WallpaperLIFT;
4. offer the Work for download to anyone under the licence you chose for it (Part B);
5. promote WallpaperLIFT by showing thumbnails or previews of the Work, credited to you, on WallpaperLIFT, in search engines, in link previews and on WallpaperLIFT’s own social-media accounts.

We may let our service providers (hosting, storage, CDN, email) handle the Work only to provide the service. We may not sell the Work, license it to third parties for their own use, or use it in advertising for third parties.

A3. Credit

We’ll credit the Work to your display name or username wherever it’s shown. You can change your display name in your account settings.

A4. What you promise

By submitting a Work, you confirm that:

1. you created it, or you otherwise own all the rights needed to grant this licence;
2. it isn’t AI-generated: WallpaperLIFT doesn’t accept AI-generated images;
3. it doesn’t infringe anyone else’s rights (copyright, trademark, privacy or publicity), and you have any model or property releases that are needed;
4. it doesn’t contain illegal content and follows the Submission guidelines;
5. the information you provide with it (title, description, location, camera data) is accurate to the best of your knowledge.

A5. Review and removal by us

We review submissions before publishing them. We may refuse, unpublish or remove a Work at any time, for example after a rights complaint or a breach of the guidelines, and we’ll tell you why when we reasonably can.

A6. Removal by you, and how long the licence lasts

• You can withdraw a pending submission at any time from My submissions.
• To have a published Work removed, send a removal request (from the wallpaper page or My submissions) and tell us why. We review every request, usually within 7 days, and reply to you. When we approve a request for your own Work, we remove it from the website at once and delete its files, including from backups and CDN caches, within 90 days.
• If you delete your account, your published Works stay on WallpaperLIFT, credited to “Artist removed” (this licence continues), unless you request their removal. Your account is hidden, not erased, so you can recover it later. Contact us to have your account deleted permanently.
• The licence ends when the Work is removed. It doesn’t affect copies that people already downloaded under the Download licence before removal, which we can’t recall.

A7. No payment

This licence is free. Neither side owes the other any payment for it.

A8. Responsibility

If someone makes a claim against WallpaperLIFT because a promise in section A4 wasn’t true, you agree to cooperate with us, and to be responsible for the losses that result to the extent permitted by law.

A9. Changes to this licence

We may update this licence. We’ll show the version and date at the top and notify you by email of material changes. A new version applies to Works submitted after it takes effect. For Works already published, material changes only apply if you keep the Work published 30 days after we notify you. Otherwise, you can request its removal. We keep a record of which version you accepted for each submission.

A10. Governing law

This licence is governed by the laws of the Province of Québec and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. Any dispute that can’t be settled amicably will be brought before the competent courts of Québec.