By posting any content to Nintendo.com or linked services, users grant Nintendo a worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, perform, and display that content in any form or medium, including for promotional and marketing purposes. The license is explicitly stated to be irrevocable and perpetual.
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This provision establishes that Nintendo retains a broad, irrevocable, perpetual license over user-posted content, including the right to sublicense that content to third parties and incorporate it into other works in any media. The license persists regardless of whether the user deletes the content or terminates use of the Services.
Under this clause, any content a user posts to Nintendo.com or linked interactive areas is subject to a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license that Nintendo may exercise for any purpose including commercial promotional use, and may sublicense to third parties. The agreement states the license is irrevocable, meaning it continues after account termination or content deletion.
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Compare across platforms →"If you submit or post User Content to the Services, unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Nintendo a worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, and sublicenseable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, perform, and display such User Content in whole or in part and to incorporate such User Content in other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes.Excerpt from Nintendo's Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This clause engages privacy and data protection frameworks insofar as User Content may include personal information.
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This provision establishes that Nintendo retains a broad, irrevocable, perpetual license over user-posted content, including the right to sublicense that content to third parties and incorporate it into other works in any media. The license persists regardless of whether the user deletes the content or terminates use of the Services.
Under this clause, any content a user posts to Nintendo.com or linked interactive areas is subject to a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license that Nintendo may exercise for any purpose including commercial promotional use, and may sublicense to third parties. The agreement states the license is irrevocable, meaning it continues after account termination or content deletion.
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