Any ideas, bug reports, feature suggestions, or other feedback you share with Spotify are free for Spotify to use in any way — including building them into the product — and you will never be compensated for them.
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This clause operates to secure unrestricted usage rights for user-generated feedback, removing potential confidentiality claims or compensation obligations that might otherwise apply to user submissions. The provision establishes a framework under which Spotify may incorporate, modify, or deploy user feedback across its service development and operations without contractual limitation.
Creative users, developers, and power users who provide detailed product suggestions or feature ideas to Spotify through any channel should understand that Spotify can freely implement those ideas as its own intellectual property without any obligation of payment, attribution, or confidentiality. This prevents any future claims for compensation based on contributed ideas.
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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 Terms and Conditions
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision is governed primarily by contract law and the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C.) — feedback that rises to the level of copyrightable expression is subject to the broader user content license; purely …
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This clause operates to secure unrestricted usage rights for user-generated feedback, removing potential confidentiality claims or compensation obligations that might otherwise apply to user submissions. The provision establishes a framework under which Spotify may incorporate, modify, or deploy user feedback across its service development and operations without contractual limitation.
Creative users, developers, and power users who provide detailed product suggestions or feature ideas to Spotify through any channel should understand that Spotify can freely implement those ideas as its own intellectual property without any obligation of payment, attribution, or confidentiality. This prevents any future claims for compensation based on contributed ideas.
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