When you post anything on Khan Academy — questions, comments, answers, or other material — you give Khan Academy a permanent, global, free license to use, copy, modify, and share that content in any way they choose, including in future products.
Any content a user posts — including student work or teacher-created materials — can be freely used, modified, and distributed by Khan Academy worldwide, including for purposes not yet invented, without payment or further permission.
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Compare across platforms →This broad license means that content you or your child posts on the platform can be used by Khan Academy in ways beyond what you originally intended, potentially including training AI systems or creating derivative educational materials, without additional compensation or consent.
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: User content licenses are primarily governed by contract law; however, where the content includes student educational records, FERPA (20 U.S.C. §1232g) restricts secondary use without consent. For EU users, GDPR Art. 6 requires a lawful basis for processing personal data embedded in user content; a broad contractual license may not satisfy GDPR's purpose limitation principle (Art. 5(1)(b)). If content is used to train AI models, the EU AI Act and proposed AI training transparency requirements may apply. (2)
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