When you upload photos, property information, or other content to Redfin, you give them the right to use, share, and distribute it for free, and you give up your right to be credited as the author.
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The clause establishes the scope of Redfin's rights to exploit user-generated content across its operations and enables delegation of content use to affiliates and service providers. This operational structure permits content deployment beyond the direct service provision context.
Users grant Redfin a permanent, worldwide, sublicensable license over all content they submit, including photos and property information, which Redfin can share with affiliates and subcontractors to develop or improve its services.
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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. In addition to any of Your Content that is made available through the Services, we may share Your Content with our affiliates, service providers and/or subcontractors in order to deliver, develop, or improve the Services. You hereby irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.— Excerpt from Redfin's Redfin Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: User content licensing provisions engage CCPA/CPRA (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.100 et seq.) to the extent content includes personal information, with the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) as enforcement authority. The FTC Act Section 5 applies where content sharing practices deviate materially from disclosed terms. GDPR (Article 6 and Article 17) applies where EU residents submit content, as the license grant may conflict with the right to erasure if content is shared with subcontractors. The document excludes personally identifiable information from 'Your Content' and routes it to the Privacy Notice, which partially mitigates but does not eliminate GDPR risk. (2)
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The clause establishes the scope of Redfin's rights to exploit user-generated content across its operations and enables delegation of content use to affiliates and service providers. This operational structure permits content deployment beyond the direct service provision context.
Users grant Redfin a permanent, worldwide, sublicensable license over all content they submit, including photos and property information, which Redfin can share with affiliates and subcontractors to develop or improve its services.
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