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Broad Royalty-Free User Content License Including Name and Likeness

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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This authorization establishes Calm's operational rights to incorporate user-generated content into service delivery, marketing, and derivative applications without payment obligation. The transferability and sublicensability provisions enable Calm to permit third parties to use such content within the scope of the license granted.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Users grant Calm broad usage rights to their submitted content and identifying information without compensation. The scope encompasses derivative works, public performance, and distribution across present and future media channels, conditioned on applicable legal restrictions.

How other platforms handle this

Dun & Bradstreet Medium

By posting your content you are granting Dun & Bradstreet, to the extent lawfully permissible, a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your content and your association to such content in connection with the operation of the Services, including, without limitation, the...

Walmart Medium

By submitting content to Walmart, you grant Walmart and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in ...

Grindr Medium

By submitting User Content through the Services, you grant Grindr a worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, and distribute that User Content. This license is for the limited purpose of operating, developing, ...

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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By making any User Content available to Calm, you hereby grant to Calm a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free, license to use, store, publish, translate, reproduce, adapt, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute your User Content and any name, username, or likeness provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed in connection with operating, marketing, and providing the Services without compensation to you, and to the extent permitted by applicable laws, you hereby waive all moral or special rights in this regard.

— Excerpt from Calm's Calm Terms of Service

Provision details

Document information
Document
Calm Terms of Service
Entity
Calm
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 7, 2026
Last verified
May 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-004459
Document ID
CA-D-00217
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
38c351d41f441bfe6e993a8f629aece75903071fd18556b8c4d676442af6329e
Analysis generated
May 7, 2026 05:09 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Calm
Document: Calm Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-004459
Captured: 2026-05-07 05:09:01 UTC
SHA-256: 38c351d41f441bfe…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/calm/calm-terms-of-service/broad-royalty-free-user-content-license-including-name-and-likeness/
Accessed: May 20, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Severity
Medium
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Calm's Broad Royalty-Free User Content License Including Name and Likeness clause do?

This authorization establishes Calm's operational rights to incorporate user-generated content into service delivery, marketing, and derivative applications without payment obligation. The transferability and sublicensability provisions enable Calm to permit third parties to use such content within the scope of the license granted.

How does this clause affect you?

Users grant Calm broad usage rights to their submitted content and identifying information without compensation. The scope encompasses derivative works, public performance, and distribution across present and future media channels, conditioned on applicable legal restrictions.

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