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Broad User Content License

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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

The provision establishes Pinterest's operational rights to use user-generated content for service delivery, promotion, and redistribution without additional compensation or per-use authorization. The perpetual and transferable nature of the license means these rights extend beyond the user's tenure on the platform and can be exercised by Pinterest successors and affiliated entities.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Users who submit content to Pinterest authorize the platform to use that content and their associated identifying information (name, voice, likeness) for service operations, marketing, and derivative works without ongoing compensation. The license terms apply to all content formats and distribution channels, whether presently existing or developed in the future.

How other platforms handle this

Grindr Medium

By submitting User Content through the Services, you grant Grindr a worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, and distribute that User Content. This license is for the limited purpose of operating, developing, ...

Paramount+ Medium

By submitting, posting or displaying content on or through the Service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such content in any and all media or distrib...

Redfin Medium

You grant to the Redfin Companies a worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, fully paid-up, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify (for formatting purposes only), distribute, and perform and display publicly Your Content (excluding Feedback) in connection with provision of the ...

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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By making available any Member Content through the Service, you hereby grant to Pinterest the following non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual (or for the term of the protection), sub-licensable and transferable license to use the Member Content: reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, make derivative works of all such Member Content and your name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your Member Content, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with the Service and Pinterest's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.

— Excerpt from Pinterest's Pinterest Terms of Service

Applicable regulations

DMCA
United States Federal

Provision details

Document information
Document
Pinterest Terms of Service
Entity
Pinterest
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 7, 2026
Last verified
May 12, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-004987
Document ID
CA-D-00099
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
6a325f281940e6a8540c4a9b0592b82d3aa6642c3ac89de5a098345119fc2a94
Analysis generated
May 7, 2026 14:55 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Pinterest
Document: Pinterest Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-004987
Captured: 2026-05-07 14:55:16 UTC
SHA-256: 6a325f281940e6a8…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/pinterest/pinterest-terms-of-service/broad-user-content-license/
Accessed: May 20, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Severity
Medium
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Pinterest's Broad User Content License clause do?

The provision establishes Pinterest's operational rights to use user-generated content for service delivery, promotion, and redistribution without additional compensation or per-use authorization. The perpetual and transferable nature of the license means these rights extend beyond the user's tenure on the platform and can be exercised by Pinterest successors and affiliated entities.

How does this clause affect you?

Users who submit content to Pinterest authorize the platform to use that content and their associated identifying information (name, voice, likeness) for service operations, marketing, and derivative works without ongoing compensation. The license terms apply to all content formats and distribution channels, whether presently existing or developed in the future.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 11 platforms. See the full comparison.

Is ConductAtlas affiliated with Pinterest?

No. ConductAtlas is an independent monitoring service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Pinterest.