By posting content on Pinterest, users grant Pinterest, its affiliates, service providers, and other users a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, modify, monetize, and distribute that content, with no entitlement to payment or revenue share from any such monetization.
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This provision establishes the contractual basis under which Pinterest may commercially exploit User Content without compensation to the posting user. The license is transferable and sublicensable, meaning it may be passed to third parties, and it persists beyond account deletion for content already shared by others, as addressed in Section 3(c).
Under this clause, users who post content to Pinterest authorize the platform and its affiliates to monetize that content worldwide without any obligation to share resulting revenue with the user. The agreement explicitly states that no payment entitlement arises from this license.
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Compare across platforms →"By providing any User Content on the Service, you grant us and our affiliates and service providers, and our users, a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, store, publicly perform or display, reproduce, save, modify, create derivative works, monetize, download, translate and distribute your User Content, including for the purpose of promoting and redistributing part or all of the Pinterest Service. Nothing in these Terms: (i) entitles you to any payments or the right to share in any revenue from any monetization of User Content; or (ii) restricts other legal rights we may have to User Content, for example under other licenses.Excerpt from Pinterest's Terms of Service
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This provision establishes the contractual basis under which Pinterest may commercially exploit User Content without compensation to the posting user. The license is transferable and sublicensable, meaning it may be passed to third parties, and it persists beyond account deletion for content already shared by others, as addressed in Section 3(c).
Under this clause, users who post content to Pinterest authorize the platform and its affiliates to monetize that content worldwide without any obligation to share resulting revenue with the user. The agreement explicitly states that no payment entitlement arises from this license.
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