By submitting any content to Reverb, including listing photos, descriptions, and communications, users grant Reverb a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, transmit, display, and distribute that content across any media or distribution methods, including those developed in the future.
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This provision grants Reverb broad rights over user-submitted content, including the ability to sublicense that content, with no stated expiration and no ability to revoke the license once content has been submitted. The perpetual and irrevocable nature of the license means that content submitted during an account's active period remains licensed to Reverb after account closure.
Under this clause, any photos, listing descriptions, reviews, or other content submitted to Reverb are licensed to Reverb on a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable basis, including sublicensing rights. The agreement does not provide a mechanism to revoke this license for content already submitted.
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Compare across platforms →"By posting, uploading, or submitting any Content on or through the Services, you grant Reverb a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed.Excerpt from Reverb's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Broad content license provisions in platform terms engage copyright law (17 U.S.C.) with respect to user ownership of submitted materials, and GDPR Article 6 (lawful basis) and Article 7 (consent conditions) with …
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This provision grants Reverb broad rights over user-submitted content, including the ability to sublicense that content, with no stated expiration and no ability to revoke the license once content has been submitted. The perpetual and irrevocable nature of the license means that content submitted during an account's active period remains licensed to Reverb after account closure.
Under this clause, any photos, listing descriptions, reviews, or other content submitted to Reverb are licensed to Reverb on a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable basis, including sublicensing rights. The agreement does not provide a mechanism to revoke this license for content already submitted.
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