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The license is irrevocable and sublicensable, meaning Spotify can grant these rights to third parties and cannot be required to relinquish them after content is submitted.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'distribute'; additional licensed acts may appear in the full clause but cannot be confirmed from the provided text.
A user who submits User Content grants Spotify broad, permanent, cost-free rights to use that content in multiple ways globally, including allowing third parties to use it.
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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...Excerpt from Spotify's Terms and Conditions
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The license is irrevocable and sublicensable, meaning Spotify can grant these rights to third parties and cannot be required to relinquish them after content is submitted.
A user who submits User Content grants Spotify broad, permanent, cost-free rights to use that content in multiple ways globally, including allowing third parties to use it.
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