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Intellectual Property Rights Reservation

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What it is

Everything on Datadog's website — text, images, software, design — belongs to Datadog or their licensors, and you cannot copy or reuse it without permission.

This analysis describes what Datadog'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

ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This clause operationalizes Datadog's intellectual property rights and establishes the legal basis for the company's ownership of platform materials and content. The reservation of IP rights determines what rights remain with the service provider versus what users may be authorized to use.

Change history

modified May 21, 2026

Provision renamed to 'Intellectual Property Ownership and Use Restrictions', expanded to include 'proprietary rights' alongside 'intellectual property laws', and now includes affirmative use restrictions on reproduction and modification.

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Consumer impact (what this means for users)

You cannot copy, reproduce, or redistribute content from Datadog's website for commercial or public purposes — doing so could expose you to intellectual property infringement claims.

How other platforms handle this

Ford Medium

The content on this site, including but not limited to text, software, scripts, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, interactive features, and the like and the trademarks, service marks and logos contained therein, are owned by or licensed to Ford, subject to copyright and other intellectual pro...

Meta Ads Medium

Advertisers must have all necessary rights and permissions to use content in their ads, including intellectual property rights. Ads must not infringe upon or violate the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other personal or proprietary rights.

Threads Medium

You own the content you create and share on Threads and the other Meta Products... However, when you share or post content, you give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, ...

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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The Website and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video, and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof) are owned by Datadog, its licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property laws.

— Excerpt from Datadog's Datadog Terms of Use

ConductAtlas Analysis

Institutional analysis (Compliance & governance intelligence)

1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision engages US copyright law (17 U.S.C. §§101 et seq.), the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. §1051 et seq.) for trademark protections, EU Directive 2001/29/EC (Copyright in the Information Society), and the TRIPS Agreement for international IP protections. Enforcement authority rests primarily with federal courts in the US and national IP courts internationally. 2)

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Applicable agencies

  • FTC
    The FTC has limited but relevant jurisdiction over deceptive IP enforcement practices that may constitute unfair or deceptive acts under Section 5 of the FTC Act.
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Provision details

Document information
Document
Datadog Terms of Use
Entity
Datadog
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 7, 2026
Last verified
May 7, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-005574
Document ID
CA-D-00545
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
e78551734ce7f7118cf3e477f3d673943a4689b7feb0365182bfed95c91f9967
Analysis generated
May 7, 2026 21:35 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Datadog
Document: Datadog Terms of Use
Record ID: CA-P-005574
Captured: 2026-05-07 21:35:53 UTC
SHA-256: e78551734ce7f711…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/datadog/datadog-terms-of-use/intellectual-property-rights-reservation/
Accessed: June 27, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
Low
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Datadog's Intellectual Property Rights Reservation clause do?

This clause operationalizes Datadog's intellectual property rights and establishes the legal basis for the company's ownership of platform materials and content. The reservation of IP rights determines what rights remain with the service provider versus what users may be authorized to use.

How does this clause affect you?

You cannot copy, reproduce, or redistribute content from Datadog's website for commercial or public purposes — doing so could expose you to intellectual property infringement claims.

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