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Users assign all intellectual property rights in Feedback, ratings, ideas, and know-how submitted to RunPod without compensation or attribution. RunPod may use this Feedback for any commercial purpose including developing and selling products, and users waive all moral rights to such Feedback.
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This provision asserts a full IP assignment of user-submitted Feedback and ratings to RunPod, including patentable concepts and know-how, without any compensation obligation. The moral rights waiver may have limited effect in jurisdictions where moral rights are not waivable by contract, such as certain EU member states.
The updated Terms of Service remove previous promotional language including referral bonuses (previously described as $5-$500 random credit bonuses) and product feature descriptions. The revised document now explicitly states it is a legally binding agreement between you and RunPod, Inc., with a last-updated date of March 24, 2026. No new restrictions or obligations are introduced by this change; the restructuring primarily formalizes the legal framework and eliminates marketing content that previously appeared within the terms document.
View change record →Under this clause, any feedback, suggestions, ratings, or ideas submitted to RunPod are assigned to RunPod as its property, available for commercial use without attribution or compensation. The assignment covers patentable concepts and know-how contained in the Feedback.
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"You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback, or other information regarding the Site or the Service ("Feedback") provided by you to us are, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. You hereby waive all moral rights to any such Feedback. You agree there shall be no recourse against us for any alleged or actual infringement or misappropriation of any proprietary right in your Feedback. You hereby assign all right, title, and interest in, and Runpod is free to use, without any attribution or compensation to you, any ratings submitted within the Service, and any ideas, know-how, concepts, techniques, or other intellectual property and proprietary rights contained in the Feedback, whether or not patentable, for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to, developing, manufacturing, having manufactured, licensing, marketing, and selling, directly or indirectly, products and services using such Feedback.Excerpt from RunPod's Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The assignment of Feedback including patentable know-how without compensation engages general contract law principles regarding assignment validity. In certain EU jurisdictions, moral rights cannot be waived by contract, which may limit the enforceability of the moral rights waiver for EU-based users. The provision does not engage specific U.S. federal regulatory frameworks but may interact with employee IP assignment policies for enterprise customers whose employees submit feedback. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. For enterprise customers, employees submitting product feedback or feature suggestions may inadvertently assign proprietary ideas or technical know-how to RunPod. Organizations with IP protection policies should assess whether their employees are submitting competitively sensitive information through RunPod feedback mechanisms. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU member states with non-waivable moral rights protections (including France and Germany) may limit the enforceability of the moral rights waiver. Enterprise customers in highly regulated industries with strict IP compartmentalization policies face heightened exposure if employee feedback contains proprietary technical concepts. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: B2B contracts should assess whether enterprise agreements include carve-outs from the Feedback assignment clause, particularly for customers in product development or AI research contexts. Procurement teams should review whether existing IP assignment agreements with employees address the scenario of Feedback submitted to third-party cloud vendors. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Legal teams should evaluate whether internal IP policies require notification or restriction of feedback submissions to RunPod. Enterprise customers may wish to negotiate a carve-out from the Feedback assignment clause in any MSA or enterprise agreement. The absence of a compensation mechanism or attribution requirement should be assessed against the organization's standard vendor engagement policies.
This provision asserts a full IP assignment of user-submitted Feedback and ratings to RunPod, including patentable concepts and know-how, without any compensation obligation. The moral rights waiver may have limited effect in jurisdictions where moral rights are not waivable by contract, such as certain EU member states.
Under this clause, any feedback, suggestions, ratings, or ideas submitted to RunPod are assigned to RunPod as its property, available for commercial use without attribution or compensation. The assignment covers patentable concepts and know-how contained in the Feedback.
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