Users grant PayPal an irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, worldwide license to use content they provide or post through PayPal services, including associated intellectual property and publicity rights, for the purpose of operating, improving, and promoting PayPal's services.
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This provision establishes the scope of the license PayPal holds over user-submitted content and includes a moral rights waiver, which is relevant to users who submit branded, creative, or proprietary content through PayPal's platform.
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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: The moral rights waiver in this provision engages copyright law frameworks, particularly the distinction between U.S.
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This provision establishes the scope of the license PayPal holds over user-submitted content and includes a moral rights waiver, which is relevant to users who submit branded, creative, or proprietary content through PayPal's platform.
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