By posting reviews, comments, photos, videos, or other content on Amazon, users grant Amazon and any parties Amazon chooses a permanent, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, modify, publish, distribute, and create derivative works from that content in any media.
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This provision establishes a broad, irrevocable content license that applies to all user-submitted material across Amazon Services globally, with no stated expiration and with sublicensing rights, meaning Amazon may authorize third parties to use submitted content under this license.
⚠ Content submitted to Amazon remains subject to the perpetual, irrevocable license as stated in the terms
⚠ Users remain bound by the indemnification obligation for all claims arising from submitted content
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Compare across platforms →"If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Amazon a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, perform, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant Amazon and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose.Excerpt from Amazon's Conditions of Use
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The perpetual sublicensable content license may interact with the EU Copyright Directive and GDPR Article 17 (right to erasure) in EU/EEA jurisdictions, where the irrevocability of a content license may conflict with …
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This provision establishes a broad, irrevocable content license that applies to all user-submitted material across Amazon Services globally, with no stated expiration and with sublicensing rights, meaning Amazon may authorize third parties to use submitted content under this license.
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