When you post anything on Spotify — playlists, messages, feedback — you give Spotify a permanent, free, worldwide license to use, modify, and sublicense it in any way, and you give up your right to be credited as its author. This license cannot be revoked.
Any content you post to Spotify — including written feedback about a bug or a playlist you curated — can be used, sublicensed, and modified by Spotify or its business partners permanently and globally without compensating you. The moral rights waiver eliminates your ability to be credited as the creator or to object to distorted use of your content.
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By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distri...
The irrevocability of this license means Spotify can continue using your content even after you delete it or close your account, and the moral rights waiver means you cannot demand attribution or object to how your content is used or modified.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates GDPR Article 17 (right to erasure) and Article 7 (withdrawal of consent) for EU/EEA users, as the irrevocable license may conflict with data subjects' deletion rights — enforced by EU Data Protection Authorities (e.g., Irish DPC, as Spotify's EU headquarters is in Ireland). CCPA §1798.105 (right to delete personal information) similarly creates tension with the irrevocable license for California users. The Copyright Act (17 U.S.C.) governs the underlying IP transfer mechanics, and the Berne Convention's moral rights provisions (Article 6bis) are relevant for non-US users. FTC Act Section 5 may apply if the breadth of the license is not adequately disclosed at point of content submission.
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