If you share any content through Calm (such as posts or social media content tagging Calm), you give Calm a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, modify, and distribute that content for any business purpose without paying you.
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The license grant establishes Calm's operational rights to incorporate user content into service delivery, marketing materials, and derivative products without additional compensation or per-use authorization requirements. The transferability and sublicensability provisions authorize Calm to assign these rights to affiliated entities, successors, or service partners without separate user consent.
Users who post content tagging Calm or share material through the platform grant Calm broad, essentially irrevocable rights to exploit that content commercially. This could include use of a user's name, username, or likeness in Calm's marketing materials.
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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.— Excerpt from Calm's Calm Terms of Service
The perpetual, sublicensable, royalty-free license grant — including rights to name, username, and likeness — may implicate right-of-publicity laws in states like California and New York, and could raise issues under GDPR for EU users (covered by a separate terms document). Compliance teams advising on data governance should flag the breadth of this license.
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The license grant establishes Calm's operational rights to incorporate user content into service delivery, marketing materials, and derivative products without additional compensation or per-use authorization requirements. The transferability and sublicensability provisions authorize Calm to assign these rights to affiliated entities, successors, or service partners without separate user consent.
Users who post content tagging Calm or share material through the platform grant Calm broad, essentially irrevocable rights to exploit that content commercially. This could include use of a user's name, username, or likeness in Calm's marketing materials.
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