Uploading any content to YouTube grants YouTube a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to reproduce, distribute, create derivative works from, display, and perform that content in connection with the Service and across the broader Alphabet corporate group.
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This provision establishes that the content license is sublicensable and transferable, meaning YouTube may authorize third parties or Affiliates within the Alphabet group to exercise these rights without further consent from the uploader. The license scope extends to YouTube's successors and Affiliates, not solely to the YouTube platform itself.
This provision requires that uploading content to the Service grants YouTube the right to use, reproduce, and create derivative works from that content across YouTube's business and its Affiliates without compensation to the uploader. The license is sublicensable and transferable, which the agreement states extends to YouTube's successors and Affiliates within the Alphabet corporate group.
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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
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This provision establishes that the content license is sublicensable and transferable, meaning YouTube may authorize third parties or Affiliates within the Alphabet group to exercise these rights without further consent from the uploader. The license scope extends to YouTube's successors and Affiliates, not solely to the YouTube platform itself.
This provision requires that uploading content to the Service grants YouTube the right to use, reproduce, and create derivative works from that content across YouTube's business and its Affiliates without compensation to the uploader. The license is sublicensable and transferable, which the agreement states extends to YouTube's successors and Affiliates within the Alphabet corporate group.
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