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Perpetual Royalty-Free License Grant for Submissions

High severity High confidence Explicit document language Common · 256 of 352 platforms

Key Facts

What license does Databricks automatically receive to user submissions?
Databricks automatically receives a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, fully paid-up, and royalty-free license to use, make, have made, offer for sale, sell, copy, distribute, perform, display, modify, adapt, publish, and transmit user submissions.
Is the license Databricks receives to user submissions perpetual and irrevocable?
Databricks automatically receives a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, fully paid-up, and royalty-free license to use, make, have made, offer for sale, sell, copy, distribute, perform, display, modify, adapt, publish, and transmit user submissions.
Can Databricks sub-license user submissions?
Databricks automatically receives a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, fully paid-up, and royalty-free license to use, make, have made, offer for sale, sell, copy, distribute, perform, display, modify, adapt, publish, and transmit user submissions.
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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

Because the license is perpetual, irrevocable, and sub-licensable, users permanently lose exclusive control over submitted content and cannot later revoke Databricks' rights to use or further license it.

Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
3
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 2585 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Any content you submit automatically becomes subject to a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license that Databricks may sub-license and use in a broad range of ways.

How other platforms handle this

ActiveCampaign Medium

You hereby grant ActiveCampaign a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, and sub-licensable license to use your name and any of your trade names, trademarks, logos and other proprietary marks or words pursuant to this Section.

Tinder Medium

Tinder grants you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable, non-exclusive, revocable, and non-sublicensable license to access and use our Services for purposes as intended by Tinder and permitted by these Terms and applicable laws.

Glassdoor Medium

We hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license under the rights licensable by us to use the services and use Content from our services solely for your personal use...

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you automatically grant...to Databricks a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, fully paid-up and royalty-free license to use, make, have made, offer for sale, sell, copy, distribute, perform, display...modify, adapt, publish, transmit...

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Provision details

Document information
Document
Databricks Terms of Service
Entity
Databricks
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 10, 2026
Last verified
May 10, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-046568
Document ID
CA-D-00459
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
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Analysis generated
May 10, 2026 02:08 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
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Citation Record
Entity: Databricks
Document: Databricks Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-046568
Captured: 2026-05-10 02:08:03 UTC
SHA-256: adf59526e7670e55…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/databricks/databricks-terms-of-service/provision/CA-P-046568/perpetual-royalty-free-license-grant-for-submissions/
Accessed: Aug. 18, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Databricks's Perpetual Royalty-Free License Grant for Submissions clause do?

Because the license is perpetual, irrevocable, and sub-licensable, users permanently lose exclusive control over submitted content and cannot later revoke Databricks' rights to use or further license it.

How does this clause affect you?

Any content you submit automatically becomes subject to a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license that Databricks may sub-license and use in a broad range of ways.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 256 platforms. See the full comparison.

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