This is the legal agreement you accept when you use YouTube. It gives YouTube broad rights over videos and other content you upload, limits YouTube's financial responsibility to you to $500 in most cases, and requires you to defend YouTube legally if your content causes problems. If you're a parent allowing a child to use YouTube, you're personally responsible for their activity on the platform.
Technical Summary
This YouTube Terms of Service (effective January 5, 2022) governs use of the YouTube platform, including YouTube Kids, by users in Thailand (English courtesy translation). The Agreement establishes conditions for access, content uploading, and account management, and grants YouTube a broad worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license over user-uploaded content. Notable provisions include a broad liability cap of USD $500 or 12 months of revenue paid to the user, a user indemnification obligation, YouTube's unilateral right to suspend or terminate accounts, and a governing law clause designating California courts with exclusive jurisdiction. The document also addresses parental consent requirements for minors and YouTube's right to monetize user content without compensation to the uploader unless a separate agreement exists.
Institutional Analysis
This agreement engages COPPA compliance considerations through its treatment of under-13 users via parental consent and the YouTube Kids product. The indemnification clause and broad content license …
This agreement engages COPPA compliance considerations through its treatment of under-13 users via parental consent and the YouTube Kids product. The indemnification clause and broad content license create material risk exposure for business accounts and content creators operating under separate co…
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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.
YouTube has the right to show ads on or around your content and charge users for access to it, and this agreement does not entitle you to receive any payments for this monetization.
You agree to pay YouTube's legal costs and defend them if your use of the service, your content, or your violation of any law or third-party right leads to a legal claim against YouTube.
YouTube can suspend or permanently close your account at its discretion if it believes you have breached the terms, and in many cases it doesn't have to tell you why.
YouTube operates a three-strike system for copyright violations — accumulating strikes can result in permanent removal of your channel, and you cannot use another channel to get around a restriction.
If you allow your child to use YouTube, you — as the parent or guardian — are personally responsible for your child's actions on the platform and bound by the full terms of service.
YouTube makes no promises about the quality, reliability, or availability of the platform or any content on it — you use the service entirely at your own risk.
YouTube can change these terms at any time and will usually give you advance notice, but if you don't agree with the new terms, your only option is to stop using the service and remove your content.