When you post content publicly on Runway, you are confirming that you have the right to let Runway use it in almost any way imaginable, including to make money from it, in any technology that currently exists or will be invented in the future.
Users who publicly share content on Runway grant the platform an irrevocable, worldwide license to commercially exploit that content in perpetuity, including in technologies not yet invented — with no compensation owed to the user.
Cross-platform context
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Compare across platforms →This is a very broad representation — if you post someone else's content or content you don't fully own, you are legally responsible, and Runway can use publicly posted content commercially without additional payment to you.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Broad content licenses of this nature implicate copyright law (17 U.S.C. §106 et seq.), moral rights provisions under international law (Berne Convention Art. 6bis), and GDPR Arts. 6 and 9 where posted content contains personal data of third parties. The EU's Digital Single Market Directive (2019/790) imposes obligations on platforms hosting user-generated content. FTC Act Section 5 applies where the scope of the license is not adequately disclosed at the point of content submission.
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Regulatory citations, enforcement risk, and due diligence action items.
Watcher: regulatory citations. Professional: full compliance memo.