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Feedback Non-Confidentiality and Royalty-Free Use

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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This provision eliminates confidentiality protections for user-submitted ideas and suggestions, establishing Spotify's right to incorporate, modify, or deploy such feedback without obligation to compensate the originating user or restrict its use. The operational effect is to retain unlimited rights to user-generated feedback.

Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
3
Months Monitored
Apr 4, 2026
First Seen
May 11, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 646 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Users who submit ideas, suggestions, or feedback acknowledge that such submissions are not treated as confidential and authorize Spotify to use them without restriction or payment. The terms condition this non-confidential status on the classification of feedback as User Content subject to the agreement's broader provisions.

How other platforms handle this

Minecraft Medium

You can create things inspired by Minecraft such as art, machinima, stories, and other creative works. You can share these with others, but you cannot make money from them.

Redfin Medium

You may give a Redfin Company Feedback. You hereby assign to the applicable Redfin Company all of your right, title, and interest in and to the Feedback. To the extent applicable law does not permit assignment of the Feedback, you hereby grant the Redfin Companies a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide...

Medium Medium

By posting content to Medium, you give us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, publish, translate, publicly perform and display your content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your content in...

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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If you provide ideas, suggestions, or other feedback in connection with your use of the Spotify Service or any Content ('Feedback'), such Feedback is not confidential and may be used by Spotify without restriction and without payment to you. Feedback is considered a type of User Content under these Terms.

— Excerpt from Spotify's Spotify Terms and Conditions

Applicable regulations

DSA
European Union

Provision details

Document information
Document
Spotify Terms and Conditions
Entity
Spotify
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
April 28, 2026
Last verified
May 12, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-002169
Document ID
CA-D-00035
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
3de03c5fd4aaa8832a8ab1321f72529c38f425203399aceb3cdbc160b330c3b1
Analysis generated
April 28, 2026 08:42 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Spotify
Document: Spotify Terms and Conditions
Record ID: CA-P-002169
Captured: 2026-04-28 08:42:14 UTC
SHA-256: 3de03c5fd4aaa883…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/spotify/spotify-terms-and-conditions/feedback-non-confidentiality-and-royalty-free-use/
Accessed: June 18, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
Low
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Spotify's Feedback Non-Confidentiality and Royalty-Free Use clause do?

This provision eliminates confidentiality protections for user-submitted ideas and suggestions, establishing Spotify's right to incorporate, modify, or deploy such feedback without obligation to compensate the originating user or restrict its use. The operational effect is to retain unlimited rights to user-generated feedback.

How does this clause affect you?

Users who submit ideas, suggestions, or feedback acknowledge that such submissions are not treated as confidential and authorize Spotify to use them without restriction or payment. The terms condition this non-confidential status on the classification of feedback as User Content subject to the agreement's broader provisions.

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