Users who post content (including photos, product listings, and social media tags) grant GOAT and its sublicensees an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, distribute, and create derivative works from that content, with no obligation to compensate the user or provide attribution.
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This provision grants GOAT broad rights over seller-uploaded product imagery, listing descriptions, and social media tags, including the right to sublicense that content to third parties. The license is irrevocable and perpetual, meaning it survives account closure or deletion of the original content.
Under this clause, any content a registered user posts on or through the GOAT Service, including product photos and social media tags, may be used, adapted, distributed, and sublicensed by GOAT without compensation or attribution, and this license continues even after the user closes their account. The agreement explicitly states the license is not subject to compensation for use of name, image, or likeness.
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Compare across platforms →"By making any Registered User Content available on or through the Service or social media tag, you hereby grant to GOAT and its licensees a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, create derivative works of, and otherwise exploit such Registered User Content. You acknowledge and agree that such license is not subject to compensation for use of name, image, or likeness, or any right of attribution or other moral rights.Excerpt from GOAT's Terms of Use
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This provision grants GOAT broad rights over seller-uploaded product imagery, listing descriptions, and social media tags, including the right to sublicense that content to third parties. The license is irrevocable and perpetual, meaning it survives account closure or deletion of the original content.
Under this clause, any content a registered user posts on or through the GOAT Service, including product photos and social media tags, may be used, adapted, distributed, and sublicensed by GOAT without compensation or attribution, and this license continues even after the user closes their account. The agreement explicitly states the license is not subject to compensation for use of …
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