( terms of use )

Short version: your fish is yours to enjoy, print and show off. It's not for selling, for business use, for NFTs or for AI.

What you can do

• Download, print and frame your fish for your own home or personal space.
• Use it as your wallpaper, phone background or profile picture.
• Share it on social media and in messages. A mention of Dead Fish of NZ is always appreciated.
• Give a print of your own fish to a friend or whānau as a gift.

What you can't do

• Sell it. No selling the image, prints, posters or anything with your fish on it.
• Put it on products. No merch, clothing, mugs, stickers, packaging, menus or labels.
• Use it for a business. No displaying it to promote or decorate a business, such as a fish and chip shop, restaurant, café, shop or office, and no using it in advertising or branding. (Fish and chip shops: see below.)
• Make money from it in any other way, including as part of a competition, raffle or paid giveaway.
• Turn it into an NFT or digital collectible, or include it in any token, digital collection or blockchain project.
• Use it with AI. No using your fish, or any fish, species art or images from this site, to train, fine-tune or prompt an AI model, or as an input to any AI tool (for example image-to-image or style copying).
• Reproduce it beyond personal use, or copy, scrape or collect fish or artwork from this site in bulk.

Who owns what

All the fish artwork on this site, including every fish people catch, is hand drawn and stays the property of Dead Fish of NZ. Catching a fish gives you a personal licence to use your fish as described above. It doesn't transfer ownership or copyright.

If these terms are broken, that licence ends and we may ask for the fish to be taken down.

Fish and chip shops

Fish and chip shops can ask for a free personalised fish with their shop's name on it, using the form on the home page. A shop fish can be printed and displayed in that shop. The other rules above still apply: it can't be sold, put on menus, packaging or products, or used in advertising unless we agree to it first.

Want to use it for something else?

If you'd like to use a fish for a business, event or project, just ask: email us. We're happy to talk.

The fine print

• It's one fish per person. Fish are kept for good, and we can't swap or redraw yours.
• The site is free and provided as is. We do our best to keep it running, but can't promise it always will be.
• We may update these terms. The latest version is always on this page.
• These terms are governed by New Zealand law.