When you upload photos, property information, listings, or other content to Redfin, you give Redfin a worldwide, permanent, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, distribute, and publicly display that content — including sharing it with affiliates and subcontractors.
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The license grants Redfin broad authority over user content without restriction to specific geographic markets or internal use only, and permits sublicensing to third parties. The royalty-free structure means Redfin may exercise these rights without compensating the user for the license grant.
Photos, property details, and other materials you upload to Redfin can be used by Redfin and its affiliates for marketing and service improvement purposes, and shared with subcontractors, without additional consent or compensation to you.
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"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 Services to you or otherwise in connection with your permitted use of the Services.Excerpt from Redfin's Terms of Use
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The license grants Redfin broad authority over user content without restriction to specific geographic markets or internal use only, and permits sublicensing to third parties. The royalty-free structure means Redfin may exercise these rights without compensating the user for the license grant.
Photos, property details, and other materials you upload to Redfin can be used by Redfin and its affiliates for marketing and service improvement purposes, and shared with subcontractors, without additional consent or compensation to you.
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