When you post any content to Spotify, including playlists, messages, and feedback, you grant Spotify a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, distribute, and sublicense that content in any medium or technology, including technologies not yet invented. You also waive your right to be credited as the author of that content, to the extent the law allows.
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The license is irrevocable and covers derivative works and sublicensing, meaning Spotify can modify your posted content and permit third parties to use it, without payment and without the ability for you to revoke the license after granting it.
Any content a user posts on Spotify, including messages, playlists, and feedback submitted to Spotify, is subject to this broad, irrevocable license that permits Spotify to modify the content, create derivative works, distribute it worldwide, and sublicense it to third parties, without compensation to the user.
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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 Terms and Conditions
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The moral rights waiver component of this license interacts with EU and UK copyright law, under which moral rights (including the right of attribution and the right of integrity) are not fully waivable …
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The license is irrevocable and covers derivative works and sublicensing, meaning Spotify can modify your posted content and permit third parties to use it, without payment and without the ability for you to revoke the license after granting it.
Any content a user posts on Spotify, including messages, playlists, and feedback submitted to Spotify, is subject to this broad, irrevocable license that permits Spotify to modify the content, create derivative works, distribute it worldwide, and sublicense it to third parties, without compensation to the user.
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