Users grant OpenSea a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, and display any content they post or associate with the Platform, including NFT metadata, for current and future business purposes.
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This provision grants OpenSea ongoing IP rights over all user-submitted content, including NFT metadata and associated digital files, for an undefined scope of future business purposes. The sublicensable nature of the license means OpenSea may extend these rights to third parties without additional user consent.
Interpretive note: The phrase 'future business purposes' is not defined in the document, creating uncertainty about the full scope of permitted uses under the license grant.
Under this clause, any content posted to the Platform, including NFT metadata and associated digital files, is licensed to OpenSea on a royalty-free basis for use, copying, modification, and display for current and future business purposes. The agreement states that OpenSea does not claim ownership of user content, but the license rights granted are broad in scope and include sublicensing rights.
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Compare across platforms →"By using the Platform in conjunction with creating, submitting, posting, promoting, or displaying content (including compliance with OpenSea's metadata standards), you grant OpenSea a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-free license to: Use, copy, modify, and display your content for current and future business purposes, including providing, promoting, and improving the Platform. This license extends to any text, materials, images, files, communications, comments, feedback, suggestions, ideas, concepts, questions, data, or other content you post, as well as any digital files, art, or materials linked to or associated with NFTs or other digital items displayed on the Platform.Excerpt from OpenSea's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages copyright law, as the license covers modification and derivative use of user-submitted creative content.
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This provision grants OpenSea ongoing IP rights over all user-submitted content, including NFT metadata and associated digital files, for an undefined scope of future business purposes. The sublicensable nature of the license means OpenSea may extend these rights to third parties without additional user consent.
Under this clause, any content posted to the Platform, including NFT metadata and associated digital files, is licensed to OpenSea on a royalty-free basis for use, copying, modification, and display for current and future business purposes. The agreement states that OpenSea does not claim ownership of user content, but the license rights granted are broad in scope and include sublicensing …
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