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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Compare across platforms →"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
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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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