When you upload content to YouTube, you give YouTube a free, worldwide, permanent license to use, copy, distribute, and make money from your content as part of its business.
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This clause establishes YouTube's operational authority to incorporate user content into service delivery and promotional activities without additional compensation or individual licensing negotiations. The sublicensable and transferable components permit YouTube to authorize third parties and successors to exercise these rights.
Creators and everyday users lose significant control over how their uploaded content is used, and YouTube can monetize it globally without direct compensation under these terms.
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"By providing Content to the Service, you grant to YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use that Content (including to reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works, display and perform it) in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and Affiliates') business, including for the purpose of promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service.Excerpt from YouTube Ads's YouTube Terms of Service
The sublicensable, transferable, royalty-free license with no defined expiration raises IP ownership and revenue-sharing compliance concerns for business accounts and creators with existing licensing arrangements.
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This clause establishes YouTube's operational authority to incorporate user content into service delivery and promotional activities without additional compensation or individual licensing negotiations. The sublicensable and transferable components permit YouTube to authorize third parties and successors to exercise these rights.
Creators and everyday users lose significant control over how their uploaded content is used, and YouTube can monetize it globally without direct compensation under these terms.
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