When you upload content to Skillshare, you give Skillshare a broad, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute that content across their platforms.
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The license grants the platform broad operational rights to incorporate user content across distribution channels and formats without exclusivity restrictions, enabling the service to feature content in marketing, educational contexts, and platform promotion without separate permission for each use.
Any content you upload — including videos, designs, or written materials — can be used by Skillshare for their business purposes, including promotion and distribution, without additional payment to you.
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"By submitting or posting Student Content on or through the Service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive license (with the right to sublicense) to use, reproduce, distribute, access, view, crop, resize, copy, license, transmit, broadcast, and publicly perform and publicly display copies of your Student Content (including your name and image) in any form, medium, or technology, including all media or distribution methods, now known or later developed for any lawful purpose.— Excerpt from Skillshare's Skillshare Terms of Service
The content license grant is potentially unlimited in scope and sublicensable, raising intellectual property risk for Teachers who upload proprietary or commercially valuable content. Compliance teams advising creator-clients should flag scope of license and moral rights considerations in EU jurisdictions.
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The license grants the platform broad operational rights to incorporate user content across distribution channels and formats without exclusivity restrictions, enabling the service to feature content in marketing, educational contexts, and platform promotion without separate permission for each use.
Any content you upload — including videos, designs, or written materials — can be used by Skillshare for their business purposes, including promotion and distribution, without additional payment to you.
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