Get the weekly research letter
Companies change their terms quietly. We read every version and catch what actually changed. One email a week on the changes that matter and what they mean. No account.
By submitting any content to LexisNexis Interactive Areas, users grant Provider a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, sublicense, and create derivative works from that content in any medium, without further payment or notice to the user.
This analysis describes what LexisNexis's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
This provision requires users to grant broad intellectual property rights in submitted content as a condition of participation in Interactive Areas. The license is irrevocable and perpetual, meaning it continues regardless of whether the user later deletes content or ceases using the site.
Under this clause, any content submitted to LexisNexis Interactive Areas is subject to a permanent, irrevocable license that authorizes Provider to reproduce, modify, sublicense, and commercially use that content without additional compensation or notification to the submitting user.
Cross-platform context
See how other platforms handle Perpetual License on User Postings and similar clauses.
Compare across platforms →Monitoring
LexisNexis has changed this document before.
Receive same-day alerts, structured change summaries, and monitoring for up to 25 platforms.
"You grant to Provider an irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide license to use, authorize use of and have used on its behalf any ideas, expression of ideas, text, graphics, messages, blogs, links, data, information and other materials you submit (collectively, "Postings") to this Web Site. Said license is without restrictions of any kind and without any payment due from Provider to you or permission or notification, to you or any third party. The license includes the right to make, use, sell, reproduce, publish, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works from, combine with other works, translate, distribute, display, perform and sublicense Postings in any form, medium, or technology now known or hereafter developed.Excerpt from LexisNexis's Terms
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This license grant engages copyright law under the Copyright Act and may interact with GDPR Article 6 legal basis requirements for EU users whose content submission constitutes processing of personal data. The FTC's unfair and deceptive practices authority may be relevant if the scope of the license grant is not adequately disclosed to consumers at the point of submission. 2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High. The irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free license covering derivative works and sublicensing could affect institutional users whose employees submit content that incorporates proprietary or confidential organizational information. The breadth of the license, including the right to sell and sublicense, creates IP transfer risk that standard content platform licenses may not typically extend to. 3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU and UK users may have rights under GDPR or UK GDPR that interact with the permanent, irrevocable nature of this license, particularly regarding the right to erasure, though erasure rights under GDPR do not necessarily extinguish IP licenses already granted. California users may have additional considerations under CCPA regarding personal information embedded in submitted content. 4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Enterprise procurement teams should assess whether employees submitting content to LexisNexis Interactive Areas are subject to internal IP assignment policies that would conflict with or override their ability to grant this license. Vendor contracts that incorporate LexisNexis terms by reference should be reviewed to determine whether this license grant creates unintended IP exposure. 5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Organizations should establish internal policies specifying whether employees may post to LexisNexis Interactive Areas and, if so, what categories of content are permissible. Legal teams should evaluate whether this license grant requires disclosure in IP ownership or assignment agreements with clients or employers.
Full institutional analysis
Regulatory citations, enforcement risk, and due diligence action items.
Monitor: same-day alerts on the platforms you choose. Analyst: full institutional analysis.
Compliance Governance Intelligence
Need to monitor specific governance provisions?
Compliance includes provision-level monitoring, governance timelines, regulatory mapping, and audit-ready analysis.
Built from archived source documents, structured governance mappings, and historical version tracking.
This provision requires users to grant broad intellectual property rights in submitted content as a condition of participation in Interactive Areas. The license is irrevocable and perpetual, meaning it continues regardless of whether the user later deletes content or ceases using the site.
Under this clause, any content submitted to LexisNexis Interactive Areas is subject to a permanent, irrevocable license that authorizes Provider to reproduce, modify, sublicense, and commercially use that content without additional compensation or notification to the submitting user.
No. ConductAtlas is an independent monitoring service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by LexisNexis.