When you upload or create content on Runway, you grant the company a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, display, and sublicense that content to operate the platform and deliver it to other users.
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The clause establishes the legal basis for Runway to process, store, and display user-generated content across its platform infrastructure. The sublicensable component permits Runway to authorize third parties to access and use such content in connection with service delivery.
Content you upload or create through Runway, including videos, images, and audio, is licensed to Runway on an irrevocable, perpetual basis for hosting, distributing, modifying, and publicly displaying within the service, and Runway can sublicense these rights to others involved in service delivery.
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"Subject to any applicable account settings that you select, you grant Company a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and license to host, use, license, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform, and publicly display, including on a through-to-the-audience basis, Your Content (in whole or in part) for the purposes of operating and providing the Services to you and to our other users.— Excerpt from Runway's Runway Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This content license engages GDPR where uploaded content contains personal data of identifiable individuals, requiring evaluation of the lawful basis for processing and the scope of sublicensing to third-party service providers. The inclusion of moral rights in the license grant interacts with EU and UK intellectual property law, where moral rights are generally inalienable and cannot be waived by contract in some jurisdictions. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The irrevocable and perpetual nature of the content license creates tension with GDPR Article 17 right to erasure where Your Content contains personal data. The sublicensable scope means that third-party processors or partners may receive rights over user content, which should be reflected in Runway's data processing agreements. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU and UK users may have inalienable moral rights over original creative works that cannot be effectively waived by a terms of service agreement, making the moral rights inclusion potentially unenforceable in those jurisdictions. California's right of publicity law may interact with this license where content includes identifiable likenesses. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Organizations uploading proprietary or commercially sensitive content to Runway should assess whether this license scope is consistent with their IP ownership obligations to clients or stakeholders. The through-to-the-audience sublicensing right means content may be displayed to other users as part of service operations. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Legal teams should map which content categories are subject to this license, assess whether the irrevocable nature conflicts with deletion obligations under applicable privacy law, and verify that account privacy settings adequately limit public display where users have selected restrictive access controls.
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The clause establishes the legal basis for Runway to process, store, and display user-generated content across its platform infrastructure. The sublicensable component permits Runway to authorize third parties to access and use such content in connection with service delivery.
Content you upload or create through Runway, including videos, images, and audio, is licensed to Runway on an irrevocable, perpetual basis for hosting, distributing, modifying, and publicly displaying within the service, and Runway can sublicense these rights to others involved in service delivery.
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