When you upload photos, reviews, or other content to Airbnb, you give the company a permanent, worldwide license to use, modify, and distribute that content for any purpose related to the platform, including marketing.
This analysis describes what Airbnb's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
This license is broad in scope: it is perpetual, sublicensable, and covers derivative works, meaning Airbnb can modify your content and pass the license to third parties for platform promotion.
The updated Terms of Service no longer explicitly state that users must be at least 18 years old to book a reservation or host a place on Airbnb. Previously, this age requirement was stated as a binding community policy. The removal of this language creates operational uncertainty about Airbnb's age eligibility requirements and enforcement. While Airbnb's actual booking and hosting practices may not have changed, users can no longer point to an explicit contractual age restriction in the published terms.
View change record →Changed 'Member Content' to 'Content' throughout, expanded trigger actions from 'making available' to 'creating, uploading, posting, sending, receiving, storing, or otherwise making available', and changed 'grant to' to 'grant to' (simplified phrasing).
View full change record →Photos, reviews, and other content you post on Airbnb can be used by the company and its partners worldwide, indefinitely, including in modified form and for promotional purposes. Users retain ownership of their content but grant Airbnb extensive usage rights that persist even after account closure.
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If Your Content is prohibited under the laws of any jurisdiction where our Services are available, we may remove it even if it is not illegal in your location.
"By creating, uploading, posting, sending, receiving, storing, or otherwise making available any Content on or through the Airbnb Platform, you grant to Airbnb a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual (or for the term of the protection), sub-licensable and transferable license to such Content to access, use, store, copy, modify, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publish, transmit, stream, broadcast, and otherwise exploit in any manner such Content to provide and/or promote the Airbnb Platform, in any media or platform.Excerpt from Airbnb's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision interacts with GDPR Article 6 and Article 7 for EU users, as the license grant over personal data embedded in user content (such as photos containing identifiable individuals) requires a …
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This license is broad in scope: it is perpetual, sublicensable, and covers derivative works, meaning Airbnb can modify your content and pass the license to third parties for platform promotion.
Photos, reviews, and other content you post on Airbnb can be used by the company and its partners worldwide, indefinitely, including in modified form and for promotional purposes. Users retain ownership of their content but grant Airbnb extensive usage rights that persist even after account closure.
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