Posting any content on the Stash platform grants Stash an irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, modify, display, reproduce, distribute, and sublicense that content to third parties across any current or future media or platform.
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This provision establishes that content posted on the platform, described as limited in the clause header but irrevocable and sublicensable in its operative terms, can be redistributed by Stash to third parties and other users across future platforms without additional permission from or payment to the original poster.
Under this clause, content posted by users on the Stash platform is subject to an irrevocable license permitting Stash to sublicense that content to third parties and other users for use on other media or platforms. The agreement states the user retains ownership of the content, but the license itself cannot be revoked.
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"By displaying, publishing, or otherwise posting any content on or through the Platform ("User Content"), you hereby grant to Stash a limited, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, worldwide, fully-paid, royalty free license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute all User Content without the requirement to make payment to you or to any third party or the need to seek any third party permission. This license includes the right to host, index, cache, distribute, and tag any of your User Content, as well as the right to sublicense such content to third parties, including other users, for use on other media or platforms known or hereinafter developed, such as for use on mobile phones.— Excerpt from Stash's Stash Terms of Use (Superseded URL)
1. REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages standard copyright licensing principles and may interact with applicable platform liability frameworks. The sublicensing right, which permits distribution to other users and third parties on future platforms, may warrant evaluation under FTC disclosure standards if user-posted content is commercially redistributed. 2. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Low to Medium. The User Content license is described as limited in scope relative to the Submissions license in Section 10, but is still irrevocable and includes sublicensing rights. The practical operational significance depends on the platform features through which users post content (e.g., community forums, profile communications). 3. JURISDICTION FLAGS: Standard across technology platforms operating under U.S. law. The irrevocability of the license may receive different treatment in jurisdictions with stronger user content rights, though the platform is restricted to U.S. residents under the geographic scope provision. 4. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: The sublicensing right to third parties is operationally relevant for any third-party distribution or content partnership arrangements Stash enters into. Procurement teams should note that user-generated content may be redistributed to third-party platforms under this provision. 5. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should identify which platform features currently permit user content posting and confirm that the irrevocable license scope is disclosed to users at the point of posting. The distinction between the User Content license (Section 7) and the Submissions license (Section 10) should be clearly mapped to specific platform interactions to avoid overlapping or inconsistent application.
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This provision establishes that content posted on the platform, described as limited in the clause header but irrevocable and sublicensable in its operative terms, can be redistributed by Stash to third parties and other users across future platforms without additional permission from or payment to the original poster.
Under this clause, content posted by users on the Stash platform is subject to an irrevocable license permitting Stash to sublicense that content to third parties and other users for use on other media or platforms. The agreement states the user retains ownership of the content, but the license itself cannot be revoked.
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