When you create and share content in Epic's games (such as Fortnite islands built in UEFN), you give Epic a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, modify, and distribute that content in any media for any purpose, including using your name or likeness if they appear in the content.
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Any creative work you share through Epic's platforms, including game levels, artwork, or videos, can be used by Epic commercially and in perpetuity without paying you or seeking additional permission, and the license survives even if you later delete the content or close your account.
This new provision grants Epic broad perpetual rights to exploit user-generated content including derivative works, which could significantly impact creators sharing content through the platform.
View full change record →Content creators who build Fortnite islands or share other user-generated content through Epic's platforms grant Epic a permanent, irrevocable right to use that creative work in any format without additional compensation, which has significant implications for creators who develop substantial original content through UEFN.
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"By submitting, sharing, or otherwise making User-Generated Content available through any of the Licensed Products, including by submitting User-Generated Content using UEFN, you grant Epic a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display and otherwise exploit the User-Generated Content in any way and in any format, medium, or technology now known or hereafter developed, and to use your name, voice, and likeness to the extent the User-Generated Content includes them.Excerpt from Epic Games's Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The breadth of the user-generated content license engages intellectual property law regarding the extent to which creators can license rights in their own creative works through platform terms.
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Any creative work you share through Epic's platforms, including game levels, artwork, or videos, can be used by Epic commercially and in perpetuity without paying you or seeking additional permission, and the license survives even if you later delete the content or close your account.
Content creators who build Fortnite islands or share other user-generated content through Epic's platforms grant Epic a permanent, irrevocable right to use that creative work in any format without additional compensation, which has significant implications for creators who develop substantial original content through UEFN.
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