When you post or submit anything to Khan Academy (such as answers, comments, or creative work), you give Khan Academy a broad, permanent license to use, copy, modify, and share that content as part of running and improving its service.
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This license is broad and includes the right to create derivative works and sublicense content, meaning Khan Academy can modify what you submit and share it with third parties in connection with its operations.
Any content a user submits to Khan Academy, including work submitted by students and minors, may be used by Khan Academy in a wide range of ways without additional permission or compensation. The license is royalty-free and transferable, meaning users retain ownership of their content but give up significant control over how it is used.
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"By submitting any User Content through the Service, you hereby grant Khan Academy a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, create derivative works of, display, and perform your User Content in connection with the Service and Khan Academy's business.— Excerpt from Khan Academy's Khan Academy Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: For content submitted by users under 13, this license interacts with COPPA's restrictions on data collection and use from children, enforced by the FTC. Content submitted by students in a school context may also implicate FERPA if it constitutes part of an education record, with oversight from the Department of Education. The breadth of the license should be evaluated against applicable state student data privacy laws (e.g., California's Student Online Personal Information Protection Act, SOPIPA). GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The license is broad but standard in the consumer internet industry. The primary exposure arises from the application of this license to content submitted by minors and students, where COPPA and state student privacy laws may limit permissible uses. If Khan Academy's AI systems (including Khanmigo) are trained on user-submitted content, additional regulatory and reputational considerations may arise. JURISDICTION FLAGS: California's SOPIPA prohibits using student data to build commercial profiles or for advertising purposes, and may limit how Khan Academy can exercise this license over student-submitted content. EU/EEA users may have stronger rights over their submitted content under GDPR's data minimization and purpose limitation principles, though contractual content licenses and data protection rights operate on different legal tracks. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: School districts entering into a School Agreement with Khan Academy should confirm whether student-submitted content is subject to this broad license or whether the School Agreement restricts Khan Academy's use of that content to educational purposes only. Procurement teams should request clarity on this point before deployment. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should map what categories of content users submit and assess whether those categories overlap with protected data types under COPPA, FERPA, or SOPIPA. If AI model training uses user-submitted content, a separate assessment of consent adequacy and regulatory permissions is warranted.
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This license is broad and includes the right to create derivative works and sublicense content, meaning Khan Academy can modify what you submit and share it with third parties in connection with its operations.
Any content a user submits to Khan Academy, including work submitted by students and minors, may be used by Khan Academy in a wide range of ways without additional permission or compensation. The license is royalty-free and transferable, meaning users retain ownership of their content but give up significant control over how it is used.
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