If you create and share any content using Riot Games platforms — such as fan art, videos, or game clips — you grant Riot a broad, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, and distribute that content.
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This clause establishes the legal basis for Riot Games to incorporate user-generated content into service operations, modifications, and derivative applications without ongoing compensation or additional authorization requirements. The perpetual and irrevocable nature of the license means these rights continue indefinitely regardless of account status or service discontinuation.
Content creators who share gameplay videos, fan art, or other creations on Riot's platforms give up significant rights to that content, allowing Riot to use it commercially without compensation. Creators should be cautious about what they share through official Riot channels.
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"You grant us, from the time of uploading or transmission of Your Content, a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable, non-exclusive and royalty-free right and license to use, reproduce, distribute, adapt, modify, translate, create derivative works based upon, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, and import Your Content, including, all copyrights, publicity rights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, industrial rights and all other intellectual and proprietary rights related to them, for the purpose of providing the Riot Services without any compensation to you.— Excerpt from Riot Games's Riot Games Terms of Service
Broad user-generated content licenses of this nature raise intellectual property compliance considerations, particularly regarding the scope of rights granted and their interaction with creators' moral rights in EU jurisdictions. Legal teams evaluating content partnership arrangements with Riot should scrutinize these provisions carefully.
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This clause establishes the legal basis for Riot Games to incorporate user-generated content into service operations, modifications, and derivative applications without ongoing compensation or additional authorization requirements. The perpetual and irrevocable nature of the license means these rights continue indefinitely regardless of account status or service discontinuation.
Content creators who share gameplay videos, fan art, or other creations on Riot's platforms give up significant rights to that content, allowing Riot to use it commercially without compensation. Creators should be cautious about what they share through official Riot channels.
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