You keep ownership of anything you upload to Unity's services, but you give Unity a broad, free license to use, copy, modify, and distribute that content to operate its platform.
This analysis describes what Unity'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
The license granted to Unity is broad in scope, covering modification and creation of derivative works, and is sublicensable and transferable, meaning Unity may share your content with third parties in connection with operating its services.
Content you submit to Unity's services, including project files, feedback, and other materials, can be used by Unity and its designated partners in connection with operating the platform without additional compensation to you, and Unity can modify that content or create derivative works from it.
How other platforms handle this
By submitting Content to Shopify, 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 distribution methods (now known or later deve...
Customer grants Snowflake the right to host, copy, transmit, display, and otherwise use Customer Data and Customer Applications as reasonably necessary to provide the Services in accordance with this Agreement.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, DeepSeek hereby grants to you a non-exclusive, worldwide, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, royalty-free limited license under DeepSeek's intellectual property or other rights owned or controlled by DeepSeek embodied in the Model M...
Monitoring
Unity has changed this document before.
Receive same-day alerts, structured change summaries, and monitoring for up to 10 platforms.
"You retain any and all of your rights to any content you submit, post or display on or through the Services ('User Content') and you are responsible for protecting those rights. By submitting User Content through the Services, you hereby grant to Unity a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, copy, cache, publish, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works, and store such User Content for the purposes of operating and providing the Services.— Excerpt from Unity's Unity Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Broad platform license grants for user-submitted content are common in software-as-a-service agreements and are generally enforceable under US contract law. In the EU, the Digital Single Market Directive and GDPR interact with content licensing where personal data is embedded in submitted content, as data processing for purposes beyond what users reasonably expect may require additional legal basis. The scope of the sublicensable and transferable license may require disclosure in privacy notices for EU users. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The license is broad but limited to purposes of 'operating and providing the Services,' which provides some constraint on Unity's use of submitted content. However, the sublicensable and transferable nature of the license means developers cannot fully control downstream use of content they submit, which is a consideration for studios working with proprietary or confidential development materials. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU users should assess whether content submitted through Unity's services contains personal data, as the processing of such data under this license grant would require compliance with GDPR, including identification of an appropriate legal basis. Studios in jurisdictions with strong data localization requirements should also assess whether this license grant permits cross-border transfers of submitted content. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Studios that submit proprietary game assets, code, or design documents through Unity's cloud services should review what content they are submitting and whether the scope of this license is acceptable for their IP protection strategy. The license survives termination of the agreement to the extent necessary for Unity to fulfill prior obligations, which procurement teams should note. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Organizations with trade secret or confidential information governance programs should assess whether submitting content through Unity's services constitutes a disclosure that could affect IP protection. The modification and derivative works rights granted to Unity are broader than a typical operational license and warrant review by IP counsel.
Full compliance analysis
Regulatory citations, enforcement risk, and due diligence action items.
Free: track 1 platform + weekly digest. Watcher: 10 platforms + same-day alerts. No credit card required.
Professional Governance Intelligence
Need to monitor specific governance provisions?
Professional includes provision-level monitoring, governance timelines, regulatory mapping, and audit-ready analysis.
Built from archived source documents, structured governance mappings, and historical version tracking.
The license granted to Unity is broad in scope, covering modification and creation of derivative works, and is sublicensable and transferable, meaning Unity may share your content with third parties in connection with operating its services.
Content you submit to Unity's services, including project files, feedback, and other materials, can be used by Unity and its designated partners in connection with operating the platform without additional compensation to you, and Unity can modify that content or create derivative works from it.
ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 6 platforms. See the full comparison.
No. ConductAtlas is an independent monitoring service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Unity.