“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...”
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The license grant means YouTube Ads acquires broad rights to use submitted Content globally and can sublicense or transfer those rights, without paying the user a royalty.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'prepare derivative works', suggesting additional licensed uses exist. The canonical claim covers only the explicitly quoted uses.
Users who submit Content to the Service automatically grant YouTube Ads a worldwide, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, and create derivative works from that Content, and YouTube Ads may sublicense or transfer that license.
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The license grant means YouTube Ads acquires broad rights to use submitted Content globally and can sublicense or transfer those rights, without paying the user a royalty.
Users who submit Content to the Service automatically grant YouTube Ads a worldwide, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, and create derivative works from that Content, and YouTube Ads may sublicense or transfer that license.
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