By posting any content on Starbucks sites, users grant Starbucks a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, sublicense, and distribute that content along with the user's name and likeness, without any obligation to compensate the user.
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This provision authorizes Starbucks to commercially exploit user-submitted content, including derivative works and sublicensing, on a perpetual and irrevocable basis. The license explicitly includes the user's name and likeness in connection with the content, which may engage right-of-publicity considerations depending on jurisdiction.
The agreement authorizes Starbucks to use, sell, reproduce, and sublicense any content posted by users, along with the user's name and likeness, for the duration of any applicable intellectual property rights, without compensation. The terms state users release all claims that such use violates their rights.
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Compare across platforms →"However, by submitting or posting User Content on the Sites, you grant Starbucks and its designees a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully-paid up and royalty free license to use, sell, reproduce, prepare derivative works, combine with other works, alter, translate, distribute copies, display, perform, publish, license or sub-license the User Content and your name and likeness provided in connection with such use of your User Content. By posting User Content, you hereby release Starbucks and its agents and employees from any claims that such use, as authorized above, violates any of your rights and you understand that you will not be entitled to any compensation for any use of your User Content.Excerpt from Starbucks's Terms of Use
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This provision authorizes Starbucks to commercially exploit user-submitted content, including derivative works and sublicensing, on a perpetual and irrevocable basis. The license explicitly includes the user's name and likeness in connection with the content, which may engage right-of-publicity considerations depending on jurisdiction.
The agreement authorizes Starbucks to use, sell, reproduce, and sublicense any content posted by users, along with the user's name and likeness, for the duration of any applicable intellectual property rights, without compensation. The terms state users release all claims that such use violates their rights.
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