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When users submit any content to Chegg, including class notes, answers, reviews, or comments, they grant Chegg a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, modify, distribute, and create derivative works from that content across all media. This license cannot be revoked and includes rights to sublicense through multiple tiers.
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This provision establishes that all submitted User Content, including academic notes, solutions, and Q&A responses, is licensed to Chegg on a permanent, irrevocable basis across all current and future media, with full sublicensing rights. The irrevocable and perpetual nature of this license means account closure does not terminate Chegg's rights to previously submitted content.
The agreement requires users who submit any content to grant Chegg a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, and fully sublicensable license covering copyright, trademark, publicity, and database rights in that content. This license applies to all User Content categories defined in the agreement, including class notes, course outlines, solutions, and Q&A submissions.
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"you grant Chegg and our affiliates, licensees, distributors, agents, representatives and other entities or individuals authorized by Chegg, a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully sublicensable (through multiple tiers) and fully transferable right to exercise any and all copyright, trademark, publicity, and database rights you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future, and to make, use, reproduce, copy, display, publish, exhibit, distribute, modify, sell, offer for sale, create derivative works based upon and otherwise use the User Content.Excerpt from Chegg's Terms of Use
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision implicates the FTC Act to the extent the breadth of license terms may be evaluated against unfair or deceptive practices standards. In the EU and EEA, the irrevocable perpetual license structure may require evaluation under GDPR's data subject rights framework, particularly the right to erasure, to the extent User Content constitutes or contains personal data. Moral rights protections under EU and other non-US jurisdictions may limit enforceability of the moral rights waiver included in this section. 2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium-High. The perpetual and irrevocable nature of the license, combined with multi-tier sublicensing rights, creates ongoing data governance considerations regarding the disposition of user-submitted academic content. The provision's scope encompasses 'any and all copyright, trademark, publicity, and database rights' across 'any media known now or in the future,' which is broad relative to typical platform content licenses. 3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU and EEA users may have GDPR-based rights that interact with the perpetual license, particularly if User Content contains personal data. Users in jurisdictions that do not permit contractual waiver of moral rights, including many EU member states, may retain those rights notwithstanding the waiver language. California residents may have additional rights under CCPA regarding personal information embedded in User Content. 4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Organizations procuring Chegg access for employees or students should assess whether user-submitted content includes proprietary institutional information that would be subject to this broad license. The multi-tier sublicensability means licensed content may flow to third-party vendors and partners without further notice. 5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should evaluate whether consent mechanisms at the point of content submission adequately disclose the perpetual and irrevocable nature of the license, and whether those disclosures satisfy applicable standards in user jurisdictions. Data mapping exercises should account for User Content as a distinct category subject to this license rather than standard data retention policies.
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This provision establishes that all submitted User Content, including academic notes, solutions, and Q&A responses, is licensed to Chegg on a permanent, irrevocable basis across all current and future media, with full sublicensing rights. The irrevocable and perpetual nature of this license means account closure does not terminate Chegg's rights to previously submitted content.
The agreement requires users who submit any content to grant Chegg a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, and fully sublicensable license covering copyright, trademark, publicity, and database rights in that content. This license applies to all User Content categories defined in the agreement, including class notes, course outlines, solutions, and Q&A submissions.
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