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Perpetual Irrevocable Content License

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What it is

By using any Uniswap Labs product, users grant two overlapping licenses: a broad royalty-free license over any content posted through the products for business purposes, and a separate perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable license over intellectual property rights in suggestions or feedback, covering creation of derivative works for any purpose.

This analysis describes what Uniswap's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology

ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This provision requires users, upon use of the products, to grant Uniswap Labs a perpetual and irrevocable intellectual property license over suggestions and feedback submitted through the products. For institutional users, developers, or users who submit proprietary feedback or technical suggestions, this license may affect IP ownership and control over contributed material.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Under this clause, any content, feedback, or suggestions a user submits through the products is subject to a royalty-free license that Uniswap Labs may exercise for any business purpose, and suggestions and feedback specifically are licensed on a perpetual, irrevocable basis. Users do not retain the ability to revoke this license for submitted feedback or suggestions after submission.

How other platforms handle this

Substack Medium

You hereby grant Substack a license to translate, modify, reproduce, and otherwise act with respect to your Posts to enable us to provide, improve, and notify you about new features within Substack. You understand and agree that we may need to make changes to your Posts to conform and adapt those Po...

FanDuel Medium

With respect to User Content you submit or otherwise make available on or to the Service, you grant FanDuel an irrevocable, fully sub-licensable, perpetual, world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly...

Rumble Medium

By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Rumble Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or dis...

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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By using any of our Products, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, and display any content, including but not limited to text, materials, images, files, communications, comments, feedback, suggestions, ideas, concepts, questions, data, or otherwise, that you post on or through any of our Products for our current and future business purposes, including to provide, promote, and improve the services. You grant to us a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, fully-paid, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, under any and all intellectual property rights that you own or control to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon any suggestions or feedback for any purpose.

— Excerpt from Uniswap's Uniswap Terms of Service

ConductAtlas Analysis

Institutional analysis (Compliance & governance intelligence)

1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision primarily engages intellectual property law rather than data protection regulation, though the broad category of licensed material (including 'communications' and 'data') may overlap with personal data processing obligations under GDPR and CCPA where submitted content contains personal information. The FTC's framework on unfair or deceptive practices may interact with this provision if the scope of the license is not sufficiently disclosed at the point of content submission. 2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable license over user-submitted feedback and suggestions creates IP assignment exposure for institutional or developer users who submit proprietary technical feedback. The breadth of the licensed categories ('any content including... data') may capture more than users anticipate at submission. The sublicensable nature of the feedback license means licensed rights may be transferred to third parties. 3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU users may have limited ability to waive moral rights in some member states regardless of license terms. California users should note that the irrevocability of the license is asserted by contract but courts may assess enforceability based on consideration and disclosure adequacy. The scope of 'data' as a licensed category may create tension with GDPR rights to erasure where submitted data constitutes personal data. 4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Institutional users and developers contributing proprietary feedback or technical suggestions through the products should assess whether such submissions could transfer commercially valuable IP rights to Uniswap Labs under this provision. B2B procurement teams should evaluate whether their standard IP ownership clauses are superseded by this provision when employees use Uniswap Labs products. 5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Legal teams should assess whether the license grant over 'data' as a category intersects with data subject rights under GDPR or CCPA, particularly the right to deletion, and whether the perpetual irrevocable nature of the feedback license is compatible with data retention obligations. Internal policies governing employee submission of feedback through third-party platform interfaces may need to address this provision.

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Applicable agencies

  • FTC
    The FTC's unfair or deceptive practices jurisdiction may interact with the breadth of the content license grant if users are not sufficiently informed of its scope at the point of submission
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Provision details

Document information
Document
Uniswap Terms of Service
Entity
Uniswap
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 21, 2026
Last verified
May 21, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-013116
Document ID
CA-D-00303
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
c1d35f33490ba678f2bcbc199052724d38fc70909e41d9182f0a898576833667
Analysis generated
May 21, 2026 05:16 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Uniswap
Document: Uniswap Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-013116
Captured: 2026-05-21 05:16:34 UTC
SHA-256: c1d35f33490ba678…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/uniswap/uniswap-terms-of-service/perpetual-irrevocable-content-license/
Accessed: June 8, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Uniswap's Perpetual Irrevocable Content License clause do?

This provision requires users, upon use of the products, to grant Uniswap Labs a perpetual and irrevocable intellectual property license over suggestions and feedback submitted through the products. For institutional users, developers, or users who submit proprietary feedback or technical suggestions, this license may affect IP ownership and control over contributed material.

How does this clause affect you?

Under this clause, any content, feedback, or suggestions a user submits through the products is subject to a royalty-free license that Uniswap Labs may exercise for any business purpose, and suggestions and feedback specifically are licensed on a perpetual, irrevocable basis. Users do not retain the ability to revoke this license for submitted feedback or suggestions after submission.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 15 platforms. See the full comparison.

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