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User Content License Grant

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What it is

Any content you post on Paramount+ — reviews, comments, or other submissions — can be used by Paramount+ for free, in any way, anywhere in the world, including giving that right to other companies.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

If you post reviews, comments, or other content through Paramount+ services, you grant the company a royalty-free, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, modify, and distribute that content indefinitely — including giving those rights to business partners and affiliates.

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Why it matters (compliance & risk perspective)

You retain ownership of what you post, but Paramount+ gets a very broad, permanent right to use it commercially without paying you, and can transfer that right to third parties.

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BY SUBMITTING USER CONTENT TO OR THROUGH THE SERVICE, YOU GRANT PARAMOUNT A WORLDWIDE, NON-EXCLUSIVE, ROYALTY-FREE, FULLY PAID, SUBLICENSABLE AND TRANSFERABLE LICENSE TO USE, COPY, MODIFY, CREATE DERIVATIVE WORKS BASED UPON, DISTRIBUTE, PUBLICLY DISPLAY, AND PUBLICLY PERFORM YOUR USER CONTENT IN CONNECTION WITH OPERATING AND PROVIDING THE SERVICE AND CONTENT TO YOU AND TO OTHER USERS.

Institutional analysis (Compliance & legal intelligence)

REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: User content licensing implicates copyright law (17 U.S.C. §101 et seq.) — the license grant is consistent with standard platform practice under copyright ownership principles (users retain copyright but grant a broad license). GDPR Article 6 and CCPA §1798.100 may apply where user content contains personal data, as processing of such data for commercial exploitation beyond the original purpose requires a valid lawful basis. EU Platform-to-Business Regulation (P2B, Regulation 2019/1150) may require transparency about content use for business users.

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Applicable agencies

  • FTC
    If user-submitted content is used for commercial purposes beyond what users reasonably expect — such as AI training — the FTC may assess this as an unfair or deceptive practice under Section 5.
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Document
Paramount+ Terms of Use
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Paramount+
Document last updated
April 29, 2026
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April 28, 2026
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April 28, 2026
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CA-P-003804
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Entity: Paramount+ | Document: Paramount+ Terms of Use | Record: CA-P-003804
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URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/paramount/paramount-terms-of-use/user-content-license-grant/
Accessed: May 2, 2026
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