Users grant PayPal an irrevocable, transferable, royalty-free worldwide license to use content submitted to PayPal for any purpose related to operating, improving, or promoting PayPal services, without compensation to the user. Users also waive moral rights over submitted content.
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The irrevocable nature of this license means that content submitted to PayPal cannot be recalled or de-licensed by the user after submission. The license is transferable to third parties PayPal works with and covers publicity rights, which may include names, likenesses, or brand identifiers included in submitted content.
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Compare across platforms →"Subject to the next paragraph, when you provide content to PayPal or post content using PayPal services, you grant PayPal (and parties that we work with) a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, and worldwide license to use your content and associated intellectual property and publicity rights to help us improve, operate and promote our current services and develop new ones. PayPal will not compensate you for any of your content. You acknowledge that PayPal's use of your content will not infringe any intellectual property or publicity rights. Further, you acknowledge and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights of the content you provide, and you agree to waive your moral rights and promise not to assert such rights against PayPal.Excerpt from PayPal's User Agreement
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Content license terms of this nature may interact with privacy regulations including the CCPA and GDPR regarding the use of personal data embedded in content, though the agreement is explicitly scoped to U.S.
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The irrevocable nature of this license means that content submitted to PayPal cannot be recalled or de-licensed by the user after submission. The license is transferable to third parties PayPal works with and covers publicity rights, which may include names, likenesses, or brand identifiers included in submitted content.
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