Users who post questions, comments, notes, images, videos, or other content on Khan Academy grant the platform a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to reproduce, distribute, modify, and exploit that content across any media formats and channels. The license is qualified by applicable privacy law as it relates to personal information and education records.
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This provision establishes the baseline content license governing all user-submitted postings and code. The perpetual and irrevocable nature of the license means users cannot retract permissions granted at time of submission, subject to the carve-out for applicable privacy law requirements governing personal information and education records.
Interpretive note: The operative scope of the privacy law carve-out for education records depends on how Khan Academy classifies and processes content from school accounts, which is not fully specified in the document.
The agreement establishes that content posted on Khan Academy, including questions, comments, and notes, is licensed to the platform on a perpetual, irrevocable basis for reproduction, distribution, and creation of derivative works. The terms retain user ownership of submitted content but grant Khan Academy broad operational rights over it.
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Compare across platforms →"By posting, submitting or distributing User Content on or through the Services, you hereby grant to Khan Academy a worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, assignable, fully paid-up, sublicensable, royalty-free right and license to (a) host, transfer, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, use, make, have made, import, and otherwise exploit your User Content, in whole or in part, in any media formats and through any media channels (now known or hereafter developed, to the extent consistent with Applicable Law and Khan Academy's Privacy Policy). Such license is perpetual and irrevocable, except to the extent required to comply with Applicable Privacy Law relating to ownership and control of your personal information, including education records.Excerpt from Khan Academy's Terms of Service
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The perpetual, irrevocable license is qualified by Applicable Privacy Law as it relates to personal information and education records, directly engaging FERPA and COPPA.
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This provision establishes the baseline content license governing all user-submitted postings and code. The perpetual and irrevocable nature of the license means users cannot retract permissions granted at time of submission, subject to the carve-out for applicable privacy law requirements governing personal information and education records.
The agreement establishes that content posted on Khan Academy, including questions, comments, and notes, is licensed to the platform on a perpetual, irrevocable basis for reproduction, distribution, and creation of derivative works. The terms retain user ownership of submitted content but grant Khan Academy broad operational rights over it.
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