When you post content through Calm's services, or tag Calm on social media or use a Calm hashtag, you give Calm a permanent, free, worldwide license to use, modify, and share that content and your name or likeness for marketing and business purposes.
This analysis describes what Calm'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 extends to social media posts that tag Calm or use Calm-branded hashtags, meaning content you create on external platforms can be used by Calm for marketing without additional permission or payment, and the scope includes future media formats not yet invented.
Interpretive note: The enforceability of the likeness waiver and the reach of the license to third-party social media content may vary significantly by jurisdiction under right of publicity and data protection law.
Any content you post that references or tags Calm on any platform, including external social media, is covered by this license and may be used by Calm to market its services, featuring your name, username, or likeness, without compensation and without requiring separate consent beyond agreeing to these Terms.
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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
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: User content licenses that extend to likeness and name rights may engage state right of publicity laws, which vary significantly by jurisdiction; California's right of publicity statute provides protections that may constrain the breadth of waiver asserted here. The GDPR and UK GDPR impose consent and legitimate interest requirements for processing personal data including images and usernames in marketing contexts, which is relevant for EEA and UK users even if they are nominally governed by a separate terms set. The FTC's endorsement and testimonial guidelines may be relevant where User Content constitutes a consumer review or endorsement used in marketing. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The license scope is broad but comparable to many social-media-integrated consumer services. The extension to content posted on third-party platforms that tag Calm or use Calm hashtags is operationally notable because it asserts license rights over content never submitted directly to Calm's platform. The inclusion of 'all media formats and channels now known or later developed' and 'derivative works' is standard boilerplate but creates long-tail licensing rights. JURISDICTION FLAGS: California's right of publicity statute and Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (if voice or image processing occurs) may constrain the enforceability of the likeness waiver. EEA and UK users are subject to separate terms but the interaction between this license and GDPR consent requirements warrants legal review. New York has enacted its own right of publicity protections that may limit use of name and likeness without express consent beyond broad ToS acceptance. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: The sublicensable nature of the license means Calm can pass content rights to third-party marketing partners or distributors without user notification. Enterprise customers or health plans embedding Calm access should consider whether employee use of Calm results in employee-generated content being covered by this license, and whether that creates any employment law or privacy obligations. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Calm's marketing team and any third-party agencies receiving sublicensed User Content should maintain records of the legal basis for use of specific content items, particularly those featuring individual likenesses. The scope covering social media posts using Calm hashtags should be evaluated against platform-specific terms of service that may restrict data portability or re-use of user content from those platforms.
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This license extends to social media posts that tag Calm or use Calm-branded hashtags, meaning content you create on external platforms can be used by Calm for marketing without additional permission or payment, and the scope includes future media formats not yet invented.
Any content you post that references or tags Calm on any platform, including external social media, is covered by this license and may be used by Calm to market its services, featuring your name, username, or likeness, without compensation and without requiring separate consent beyond agreeing to these Terms.
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