The agreement includes a section governing user information and user generated content, under which users grant SIE a license to content they submit or generate through PlayStation Services. The specific license scope, including royalty-free and sublicensable terms, is addressed in Section 6 of the agreement.
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This provision establishes the scope of the license SIE holds over content users create or submit through PlayStation Services, including potential sublicensability and royalty-free terms. The breadth of the license grant affects user rights to their own created content across PlayStation platform features.
Interpretive note: The full text of the UGC license grant in Section 6 was not fully reproduced in the available document excerpt; the specific scope, duration, and sublicensing terms could not be directly verified from the provided text.
Under this clause, content submitted or generated by users through PlayStation Services is subject to a license granted to SIE, the specific terms of which are set out in Section 6. Users retain underlying ownership of their content but grant SIE defined usage rights as specified in the agreement.
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"USER INFORMATION AND USER GENERATED CONTENTExcerpt from Sony PlayStation's PlayStation Terms of Service
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This provision establishes the scope of the license SIE holds over content users create or submit through PlayStation Services, including potential sublicensability and royalty-free terms. The breadth of the license grant affects user rights to their own created content across PlayStation platform features.
Under this clause, content submitted or generated by users through PlayStation Services is subject to a license granted to SIE, the specific terms of which are set out in Section 6. Users retain underlying ownership of their content but grant SIE defined usage rights as specified in the agreement.
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