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This license is broad in scope, covers all media including those not yet invented, and permits sublicensing, meaning Udemy can allow third parties to use your content under this grant.
Previous version had only a provision name; current version specifies the scope as explicitly 'royalty-free' with sublicensing rights and comprehensive rights to adapt, modify, and distribute across all media formats.
View full change record →Instructors uploading course content grant Udemy significant rights over that material, including the ability to sublicense it to third parties, which may affect how instructors can control or monetize their content outside the platform.
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"By submitting or posting content through our Services, you grant Udemy a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, and distribute your content in any and all media or distribution methods (existing or later developed).Excerpt from Udemy's Terms of Use
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This license is broad in scope, covers all media including those not yet invented, and permits sublicensing, meaning Udemy can allow third parties to use your content under this grant.
Instructors uploading course content grant Udemy significant rights over that material, including the ability to sublicense it to third parties, which may affect how instructors can control or monetize their content outside the platform.
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