“You grant Valve and its affiliates the worldwide, non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, transcode, translate, broadcast, and otherwise communicate, and publicly display and publicly perform, your User Generated Content...”
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The breadth of the license means Valve can exploit user-submitted content in a wide range of ways globally without requiring further permission or compensation for each use.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is cut off after 'User Generated Content'; any further conditions, limitations, or sublicensing provisions that follow are not captured.
If you submit User Generated Content to Steam, you grant Valve and its affiliates broad worldwide rights to use, modify, distribute, and publicly display that content on a non-exclusive basis.
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The breadth of the license means Valve can exploit user-submitted content in a wide range of ways globally without requiring further permission or compensation for each use.
If you submit User Generated Content to Steam, you grant Valve and its affiliates broad worldwide rights to use, modify, distribute, and publicly display that content on a non-exclusive basis.
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