When you post photos or videos on BeReal, you give BeReal a broad, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute that content across their services.
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The provision establishes the scope of BeReal's operational rights over publicly shared user content, permitting the platform to repurpose and distribute such content without additional compensation or per-use licensing requirements. The sublicensable component authorizes BeReal to permit third parties to exercise these same rights.
This provision means BeReal can use your images and videos without paying you, and may use them in ways beyond what you originally intended when sharing with friends.
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"Globally Shared Content means Content you shared with everyone on BeReal. In exchange for using our Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute the content you share with a Globally Shared Content in any and all media or distribution methods.— Excerpt from BeReal's BeReal Terms of Service
The content license clause raises questions of scope and duration under EU intellectual property law and GDPR, particularly regarding the basis for processing personal data embedded in user content; legal teams should assess whether the license grant is adequately informed and specific under applicable law.
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The provision establishes the scope of BeReal's operational rights over publicly shared user content, permitting the platform to repurpose and distribute such content without additional compensation or per-use licensing requirements. The sublicensable component authorizes BeReal to permit third parties to exercise these same rights.
This provision means BeReal can use your images and videos without paying you, and may use them in ways beyond what you originally intended when sharing with friends.
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