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Perpetual Feedback License with Moral Rights Waiver

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What it is

Any idea, suggestion, or comment you send to Netflix — through any channel — becomes Netflix's to use forever, for free, for any purpose, and you cannot claim credit or object to how they use it.

Why it matters (compliance & risk perspective)

If you share a creative idea with Netflix (such as a show concept or product suggestion), Netflix can use it commercially without paying you or acknowledging your contribution, and you agree not to assert moral rights over that content.

Clause Stability Highly Volatile

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Apr 18, 2026
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Apr 18, 2026
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Change history

added Apr 18, 2026

This new provision grants Netflix unlimited rights to all user feedback and communications without compensation or attribution, significantly expanding Netflix's intellectual property claims over user-generated content.

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Consumer impact (what this means for users)

This provision means any creative feedback you submit to Netflix — including product ideas or content suggestions — can be used by Netflix indefinitely and for any commercial purpose without compensation; the moral rights waiver is particularly significant in jurisdictions like France and Germany where such rights are normally non-waivable by statute.

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Netflix is free to use any comments, information, ideas, concepts, reviews, or techniques or any other material contained in any communication you may send to us ("Feedback"), including responses to questionnaires or through postings to the Netflix service, including our websites and user interfaces, worldwide and in perpetuity without further compensation, acknowledgement or payment to you for any purpose whatsoever including developing, manufacturing and marketing products and creating, modifying or improving the Netflix service. In addition, you agree not to enforce any "moral rights" in and to the Feedback, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Institutional analysis (Compliance & legal intelligence)

1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: The moral rights waiver engages the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Art. 6bis), which establishes moral rights as fundamental author rights, and national implementations thereof — particularly in France (Code de la propriété intellectuelle, Art. L. 121-1, which renders moral rights inalienable) and Germany (Urheberrechtsgesetz §14, §25). In the UK, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (ss. 77-89) permits some waiver of moral rights by contract. Singapore's Copyright Act 2021 does not provide statutory moral rights for most works, so the waiver has limited effect locally. The perpetual, royalty-free license structure is common in consumer ToS globally but the explicit moral rights waiver is less standard. 2)

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Provision details

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Netflix Terms of Use
Entity
Netflix
Document last updated
April 29, 2026
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First tracked
April 18, 2026
Last verified
April 18, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-002697
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CA-D-00038
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Entity: Netflix | Document: Netflix Terms of Use | Record: CA-P-002697
Captured: 2026-04-18 08:26:50 UTC | SHA-256: eb28d3f8ec7acc4b…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/netflix/netflix-terms-of-use/perpetual-feedback-license-with-moral-rights-waiver/
Accessed: May 4, 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Netflix's Perpetual Feedback License with Moral Rights Waiver clause do?

If you share a creative idea with Netflix (such as a show concept or product suggestion), Netflix can use it commercially without paying you or acknowledging your contribution, and you agree not to assert moral rights over that content.

How does this clause affect you?

This provision means any creative feedback you submit to Netflix — including product ideas or content suggestions — can be used by Netflix indefinitely and for any commercial purpose without compensation; the moral rights waiver is particularly significant in jurisdictions like France and Germany where such rights are normally non-waivable by statute.

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