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User Feedback Ownership Assignment

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What it is

Any feedback, suggestions, or ideas you submit to Redfin become Redfin's permanent property — Redfin owns them completely and can use them however it wants, forever, for free. You also give up any moral rights or credit for those ideas.

This analysis describes what Redfin's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology

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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

The clause establishes Redfin's ownership or exclusive right to utilize user-generated feedback for any business purpose, eliminating user control over subsequent use, modification, or commercialization of submitted materials.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

If you suggest a feature improvement or submit ideas to Redfin, you permanently lose all rights to that intellectual property — Redfin owns it outright and can commercialize it without compensating you or crediting you.

How other platforms handle this

TikTok Medium

If you choose to submit comments, ideas, or feedback to us, you give us permission to use them in connection with the Platform and any other services that we choose, for any purpose, without any restriction or compensation to you. You agree that we do not have to consider or act on them, return them...

GitHub Medium

By setting your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories within the GitHub Service. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow GitHub to display your User Content in ways to enable users to view, fork, and ...

Meta Medium

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make changes that we believe will materially affect your rights or obligations, we will notify you by email or through our developer channels. Your continued use of the Platform after we post updated Terms constitutes your acceptance of those change...

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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You hereby assign to the applicable Redfin Company all of your right, title, and interest in and to the Feedback. To the extent applicable law does not permit assignment of the Feedback, you hereby grant the Redfin Companies a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, fully paid-up, royalty-free license to use the Feedback in any manner in which the Redfin Companies see fit.

— Excerpt from Redfin's Redfin Terms of Use

ConductAtlas Analysis

Institutional analysis (Compliance & governance intelligence)

(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: The full assignment of user-generated feedback implicates U.S. copyright law (17 U.S.C. § 106 et seq.) and state contract law principles regarding consideration adequacy. The moral rights waiver invokes 17 U.S.C. § 106A (Visual Artists Rights Act), though VARA's scope is narrow. In Canada, moral rights under the Copyright Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-42, § 14.1) are inalienable and cannot be assigned, only waived — Redfin's Canadian entity clause must be assessed separately. FTC Act Section 5 may apply if users are not adequately informed that submitting feedback results in permanent IP assignment rather than a mere license. (2)

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Applicable agencies

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Provision details

Document information
Document
Redfin Terms of Use
Entity
Redfin
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
April 1, 2026
Last verified
April 1, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-001245
Document ID
CA-D-00233
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
ea643642cba160a91fa0b1e1bf22e6b89ff8ed5f4b69cceafe685244d11e54cf
Analysis generated
April 1, 2026 15:22 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Redfin
Document: Redfin Terms of Use
Record ID: CA-P-001245
Captured: 2026-04-01 15:22:14 UTC
SHA-256: ea643642cba160a9…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/redfin/redfin-terms-of-use/user-feedback-ownership-assignment/
Accessed: May 20, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Medium
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Redfin's User Feedback Ownership Assignment clause do?

The clause establishes Redfin's ownership or exclusive right to utilize user-generated feedback for any business purpose, eliminating user control over subsequent use, modification, or commercialization of submitted materials.

How does this clause affect you?

If you suggest a feature improvement or submit ideas to Redfin, you permanently lose all rights to that intellectual property — Redfin owns it outright and can commercialize it without compensating you or crediting you.

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