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.
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The provision establishes Spotify's authorization to use submitted user content across its service and derivative applications without ongoing royalty obligations or restrictions on sublicensing. The moral rights waiver removes certain protections users might otherwise retain regarding authorship attribution and objections to content modification under intellectual property law.
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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"you hereby grant to Spotify a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully paid, irrevocable, worldwide license to reproduce, make available, perform and display, translate, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, and otherwise use any such User Content through any medium, whether alone or in combination with other Content or materials, in any manner and by any means, method or technology, whether now known or hereafter created, in connection with the Spotify Service. Where applicable and to the extent permitted under applicable law, you also agree to waive, and not to enforce, any "moral rights" or equivalent rights, such as your right to be identified as the author of any User Content, including Feedback, and your right to object to derogatory treatment of such User Content.— Excerpt from Spotify's Spotify Terms and Conditions
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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The provision establishes Spotify's authorization to use submitted user content across its service and derivative applications without ongoing royalty obligations or restrictions on sublicensing. The moral rights waiver removes certain protections users might otherwise retain regarding authorship attribution and objections to content modification under intellectual property law.
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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