When you post, upload, or share anything on Riot Games' platforms (including game clips, forum posts, or screenshots), you give Riot Games permanent, royalty-free rights to use that content however they choose, in any medium, forever.
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This broad license means that any content you create and share within Riot Games' ecosystem can be used by the company for commercial purposes without additional payment or permission, and you cannot revoke that permission once granted.
Interpretive note: The enforceability of perpetual, irrevocable IP licenses in consumer-facing agreements may vary by jurisdiction, particularly in EU member states with moral rights protections or unfair contract terms frameworks.
Players who upload gameplay footage, fan art, forum posts, or other user-generated content grant Riot Games a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, and commercialize that content, with no right of revocation or compensation.
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If Your Content is prohibited under the laws of any jurisdiction where our Services are available, we may remove it even if it is not illegal in your location.
"By submitting, uploading, or otherwise providing content to or through the Riot services (including without limitation comments, forum posts, screenshots, game replays, game play, and similar content), you grant Riot Games a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such content in any media now known or hereafter developed for any purpose.Excerpt from Riot Games's Terms of Service
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This broad license means that any content you create and share within Riot Games' ecosystem can be used by the company for commercial purposes without additional payment or permission, and you cannot revoke that permission once granted.
Players who upload gameplay footage, fan art, forum posts, or other user-generated content grant Riot Games a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, and commercialize that content, with no right of revocation or compensation.
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