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Community User Content License Grant to Workday

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Key Facts

Does Workday require users to grant a perpetual license to community user content?
Workday requires users to grant Workday, its subsidiaries, and affiliates a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, and publish community user content.
Can Workday modify, adapt, and publish community user content?
Workday requires users to grant Workday, its subsidiaries, and affiliates a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, and publish community user content.
Is the license royalty-free and worldwide?
Workday requires users to grant Workday, its subsidiaries, and affiliates a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, and publish community user content.
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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

The license is perpetual and irrevocable, meaning users cannot later withdraw permission for Workday to use content they have submitted.

Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'publish'; additional licensed activities may follow but are not captured in the evidence span and are therefore omitted from the canonical claim.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Readers who submit community content lose the ability to revoke Workday's right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, or publish that content, anywhere in the world, without compensation.

How other platforms handle this

ActiveCampaign Medium

Except for the license you grant below, you retain all rights in and to your Marketing Content, as between you and ActiveCampaign.

Tinder Medium

You do not have any rights in relation to Member Content, and, unless expressly authorized by Tinder, you may only use Member Content to the extent that your use is consistent with our Services' purpose...

Glassdoor Medium

We hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license under the rights licensable by us to use the services and use Content from our services solely for your personal use...

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You grant Workday and its subsidiaries and affiliates a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable (through multiple tiers) license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish...

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Document information
Document
Workday Terms of Use
Entity
Workday
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
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Last verified
Record ID
CA-P-076105
Document ID
CA-D-00642
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Citation Record
Entity: Workday
Document: Workday Terms of Use
Record ID: CA-P-076105
Captured: UTC
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/workday/workday-terms-of-use/provision/CA-P-076105/community-user-content-license-grant-to-workday/
Accessed: Aug. 18, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Workday's Community User Content License Grant to Workday clause do?

The license is perpetual and irrevocable, meaning users cannot later withdraw permission for Workday to use content they have submitted.

How does this clause affect you?

Readers who submit community content lose the ability to revoke Workday's right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, or publish that content, anywhere in the world, without compensation.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 256 platforms. See the full comparison.

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