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Broad content license

In plain English: you grant the company rights to use, modify, sublicense, or commercialize content you upload—sometimes forever, worldwide, and royalty-free.

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Found in 181 of 1225 published policies (196 matching findings).

Why it matters

Your posts, photos, or files may be reused in ways you did not expect, including after you delete your account if the license survives deletion.

What to look for

“Perpetual,” “irrevocable,” “sublicense,” “royalty-free,” “worldwide license,” or licenses that survive account closure. Note whether the license is limited to operating the service.

Signals

Phrases to watch for

Language that often marks this clause in privacy policies and terms.

  • perpetual
  • irrevocable
  • sublicense
  • royalty-free
  • worldwide license

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Examples from published reviews

Etsy, Inc. · Etsy · Terms of service

Broad License to Use Your Content

By posting content, you grant Etsy and authorized third parties a broad, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, display, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, store, and create derivative works of your content for various purposes, including promoting Etsy and its services.

Evernote Corporation · Evernote · Terms of service

Broad License to Use Your Content

By using the service and uploading content, you grant a license to display, perform, distribute, modify (for technical purposes), and reproduce your content to operate and offer the service.

LIFX, Inc. · LIFX · Terms of service

User content can be used, reproduced, and displayed by LIFX for services and marketing.

By submitting User Content, you grant LIFX a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, and display that content in connection with our Services and marketing.

xAI LLC · Grok · Terms of service

Broad license to use user content

By submitting, creating, generating, recording, posting, or displaying inputs, you grant an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, and worldwide right to SpaceXSI to use, copy, store, modify, process, adapt, transmit, distribute, reproduce, publish, upload, download, display in public forums, list information regarding, make derivative works of, and distribute such content for any purpose. This includes aggregating your user content and derivative works for various purposes, such as maintaining and providing the service, improving products, and other business purposes.

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