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 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.
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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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