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The agreement states that any content users submit in connection with Kindle services, including reviews, lists, and discussion posts, is subject to a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, and sublicensable license granted to Amazon for global use across any media. Users receive no compensation for this license.
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This provision grants Amazon a perpetual and irrevocable right to use, modify, and sublicense user-submitted content including customer reviews and annotations without compensation or defined scope limitation. The breadth and irrevocability of this license may warrant review by users who submit substantial original content through Kindle services.
The updated terms no longer include any language governing Kindle Vella, a service that previously allowed customers to purchase and redeem digital Tokens for eligible content through the Kindle Store. This removal eliminates contractual protections that previously governed Token ownership (non-expiration, non-transferability), refund policies, and geographic restrictions. Users who hold existing Token balances or have purchased Vella content should contact Amazon customer service to understand how their existing purchases and balances are affected, as the terms no longer explicitly address this service.
View change record →Removed explicit user-generated content license grant, though this right may be retained elsewhere in consolidated terms or Amazon's broader content policies.
View full change record →This new provision grants Amazon broad perpetual rights to all user-generated content with sublicensing permissions, significantly expanding Amazon's control over customer reviews and contributions.
View full change record →Under this clause, any content a user submits through Kindle services, including reviews, annotations, and discussion posts, is subject to a perpetual, royalty-free license that Amazon may sublicense and use globally in any format without compensation to the user. The license is irrevocable, meaning it cannot be withdrawn by the user after submission.
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"If you submit content to the Kindle Store or otherwise in connection with the Service (for example, customer reviews, Listmania lists, wish lists, tags, discussion boards, or other features), you grant Amazon a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media.Excerpt from Kindle's Store Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages general IP assignment principles and may interact with consumer protection frameworks regarding adequacy of disclosure of IP rights transfers at the point of content submission. In the EU, the Database Directive and related instruments may govern certain aspects of user-generated content aggregation. No specific enforcement action is cited. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. Perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free content licenses from consumers are commonly observed in platform terms, but the sublicensability and global scope of this license warrants disclosure review, particularly for platforms where users may submit substantive original content. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU member states may impose additional requirements regarding transparency of IP rights transfers from consumers. Jurisdictions with moral rights protections for authors may limit the scope of certain modifications Amazon could make to submitted content. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Organizations that encourage employees to submit Kindle reviews or content as part of professional activities should note that submitted content is subject to this broad license. Content moderation and sublicensing arrangements downstream from this provision may affect third-party vendors or partners who receive sublicensed user content. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should confirm that the scope of this license is clearly disclosed at the point of content submission, not only within the terms of use. Review of consent mechanisms for content submission is warranted, particularly for platforms operating in jurisdictions with heightened transparency requirements.
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This provision grants Amazon a perpetual and irrevocable right to use, modify, and sublicense user-submitted content including customer reviews and annotations without compensation or defined scope limitation. The breadth and irrevocability of this license may warrant review by users who submit substantial original content through Kindle services.
Under this clause, any content a user submits through Kindle services, including reviews, annotations, and discussion posts, is subject to a perpetual, royalty-free license that Amazon may sublicense and use globally in any format without compensation to the user. The license is irrevocable, meaning it cannot be withdrawn by the user after submission.
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