When you post anything on Reddit — text, images, video, or other content — you grant Reddit a permanent, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, copy, modify, distribute, and create derivative works from that content across any media, even if you later delete it or close your account.
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This clause establishes Reddit's operational rights to monetize, archive, and repurpose user content across its services and platforms indefinitely. The perpetual scope means these rights continue even after user account termination or content deletion.
Any post, comment, image, or video you submit to Reddit is licensed to Reddit forever — deletion of your content or account does not terminate Reddit's license to use that content commercially.
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Where the law allows us to, we may use the content you and other users have posted for training or to help us to improve the way we filter content on our platform.
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This clause establishes Reddit's operational rights to monetize, archive, and repurpose user content across its services and platforms indefinitely. The perpetual scope means these rights continue even after user account termination or content deletion.
Any post, comment, image, or video you submit to Reddit is licensed to Reddit forever — deletion of your content or account does not terminate Reddit's license to use that content commercially.
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