By uploading any content to Peacock, users grant the platform a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable worldwide license to use, adapt, distribute, and commercially exploit that content, including the user's name, likeness, and voice, across any current or future media, without additional consent or payment. This license survives account deletion and termination.
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This provision asserts rights over biometric and identity-adjacent attributes, specifically name, likeness, and voice, through a license structure that is irrevocable and survives account closure, with sublicensing rights extending through multiple tiers including to third-party sites and platforms, creating a persistent rights grant that legal teams should evaluate against right-of-publicity statutes and applicable data protection frameworks.
This clause establishes that any content a user uploads, including video or audio content in which the user appears or speaks, is subject to a royalty-free, perpetual license that Peacock can sublicense to third parties and exploit commercially without further notice or compensation to the user. The agreement separately states that deletion of user-generated content from the Peacock Service does not require third parties who previously accessed that content to delete it.
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Compare across platforms →"You hereby grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, sub-licensable through multiple tiers (including to other users of the Peacock Service), transferable, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, adapt, prepare derivative works based on, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, incorporate in other works, and/or otherwise exploit, in whole or in part, User-Generated Content (including your name, likeness and voice as it appears in that User-Generated Content) in any manner and any media now known or hereafter developed, without further notice to you and without the requirement of compensation or additional permission from you or any other person or entity.Excerpt from Peacock's Terms of Use
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This provision asserts rights over biometric and identity-adjacent attributes, specifically name, likeness, and voice, through a license structure that is irrevocable and survives account closure, with sublicensing rights extending through multiple tiers including to third-party sites and platforms, creating a persistent rights grant that legal teams should evaluate against right-of-publicity statutes and applicable data protection frameworks.
This clause establishes that any content a user uploads, including video or audio content in which the user appears or speaks, is subject to a royalty-free, perpetual license that Peacock can sublicense to third parties and exploit commercially without further notice or compensation to the user. The agreement separately states that deletion of user-generated content from the Peacock Service does …
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