Licensed Content and User Content are different things; you keep control of your uploads but license them to Canva
Canva gives you access to “Licensed Content” provided by Canva and other content providers to use in Designs, and your use of it is subject to the Content License Agreement; the rights and restrictions vary by the type and source of the content. You may also upload your own “User Content” (such as videos, images and files), which you have full control and responsibility over. Section 4 adds that you own your User Content as between you and Canva, while granting Canva a license to host and use it to provide the Service.
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(each a “Design”)
When you use the Service, you’ll have access to a variety of content provided by Canva and other content providers to use in your designs (“Licensed Content”).
You also have the option to upload your own content (“User Content”), such as videos, images, and files, which you have full control and responsibility over.
The applicable license rights and restrictions vary depending on the type and source of the Licensed Content.
As between you and Canva, you own all right, title and interest in and to your User Content. You grant Canva a royalty-free and sublicensable license to display, host, copy, store and use your User Content to provide the Service to you
Qualifications & exceptions
“Design” covers logos, posters, presentations, videos, documents, whiteboards, websites and other materials made with the Service.
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The Content License Agreement was not supplied, so the specific license rights and restrictions on Licensed Content are unknown.
Content & IP Rights · User right or choice
You keep ownership of your User Content as between you and Canva, and warrant you have the rights to it
You represent and warrant that you own all rights in your User Content, or have secured all rights needed to permit its access, use and distribution as the Terms contemplate. As between you and Canva, you own all right, title and interest in your User Content. User Content is the content you can choose to upload, such as videos, images and files.
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You also have the option to upload your own content (“User Content”), such as videos, images, and files
You represent and warrant that you own all rights, title, and interest in and to your User Content or that you have otherwise secured all necessary rights in your User Content as may be necessary to permit the access, use and distribution thereof as contemplated by these Terms.
As between you and Canva, you own all right, title and interest in and to your User Content.
Qualifications & exceptions
Ownership is stated “as between you and Canva”; it does not address third-party rights or the Team Owner/Administrator powers in section 8.
The warranty is yours: you promise you own or have secured the rights needed.
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The text does not say what happens if your warranty turns out to be untrue beyond the general indemnity and violation terms elsewhere.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You license Canva to host and use your User Content to provide and secure the Service and enforce its rules
You grant Canva a royalty-free and sublicensable license to display, host, copy, store and use your User Content to provide the Service to you, including to keep the Service safe and secure and to enforce the Acceptable Use Policy and the Terms. Canva says these protections apply at all times to protect the community and are an essential part of providing the Service.
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You grant Canva a royalty-free and sublicensable license to display, host, copy, store and use your User Content to provide the Service to you, including to keep the Service safe and secure, and to enforce our
These protections apply at all times to protect our community and are an essential part of providing the Service.
Qualifications & exceptions
The license is for providing the Service to you, including keeping it safe and secure and enforcing the Acceptable Use Policy and the Terms.
It is royalty-free and sublicensable.
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This paragraph does not state how long this first license lasts or when it ends; the next sentence separately calls the license for shared Designs “perpetual”.
Who Canva may sublicense to is not stated here.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
If User Content is in a Design you have shared, Canva gets a perpetual license to keep that Design available
To the extent you include User Content in a Design that you have shared with others, you grant Canva a perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable license to display, host, copy, store and use that User Content to the extent necessary to continue to make the Design available.
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To the extent you include User Content in a Design that you’ve shared with others, you grant Canva a perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable, license to display, host, copy, store and use your User Content to the extent necessary to continue to make that Design available.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies only to User Content in a Design you have shared with others.
Limited to what is necessary to keep that Design available.
The license is described as perpetual.
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The text does not say whether the license ends if you delete the shared Design or the User Content; section 15(c) says User Content in a shared Design remains available within that Design after a subscription ends.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Licensed Content use is governed by the Content License Agreement, which varies by content type and source
You may use Licensed Content in connection with the Service. Its use is subject to additional license rights and restrictions in the Content License Agreement, and those rights and restrictions vary depending on the type and source of the Licensed Content. You can find which Content License Terms apply by hovering over the item and clicking its info icon.
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You may use Licensed Content in connection with the Service. The use of Licensed Content is subject to additional license rights and restrictions set out in the
The applicable license rights and restrictions vary depending on the type and source of the Licensed Content. You can determine which Content License Terms apply by hovering over the item of Licensed Content and clicking on the info icon.
Qualifications & exceptions
The applicable terms depend on the type and source of each item of Licensed Content.
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The Content License Agreement was not supplied, so the specific permissions and restrictions are unknown.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You keep ownership of your User Content in a Design, but Licensed Content in it brings extra terms
Your Designs may combine User Content and Licensed Content. The operative text says you retain ownership of your User Content, and that any use of Designs containing Licensed Content is subject to the applicable terms of the Content License Agreement. A plain-language box says Canva never owns your designs but there may be restrictions depending on the Canva-provided content included; that box is not an operative term.
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Your Designs may include a combination of User Content and Licensed Content. While you retain ownership of your User Content, any use of Designs containing Licensed Content are subject to the applicable terms of the
We never own your designs, but there may be certain restrictions depending on the types of Canva-provided content you’ve included in your designs.
Qualifications & exceptions
The operative sentence speaks of ownership of User Content and of restrictions on Designs containing Licensed Content.
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The operative text does not itself say who owns a Design as a whole; the “never own your designs” wording is in a box that the page says is not legally binding.
The Content License Agreement was not supplied, so the restrictions on Designs with Licensed Content are unknown.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Team Owners and Administrators can control, delete or reassign ownership of your Team content; Canva is not responsible
If you are on a Team, the Team Owner or an Administrator may control access to, delete, or re-assign ownership of the User Content you upload and the Designs you create on the account you access as part of the Team. Canva is not responsible for actions taken by Team Owners or Administrators. It is your responsibility not to upload User Content or create Designs on a Team-associated account if you do not want to potentially transfer ownership or disclose them to others on the Team. This sits beside section 4(a), under which you own your User Content as between you and Canva.
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If you're on a Team, the Team Owner or Administrator may control access to, delete, or re-assign ownership to the User Content you upload and Designs you create on the account you access as part of the Team.
Canva is not responsible for any actions taken by Team Owners or Administrators.
It is your responsibility to not upload User Content or create Designs on an account associated with a Team if you do not want to potentially transfer ownership or disclose such User Content or Designs to others on the Team.
As between you and Canva, you own all right, title and interest in and to your User Content.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to content and Designs on the account you access as part of a Team.
The ownership statement in section 4(a) is “as between you and Canva”, so it does not stop a Team Owner or Administrator from reassigning content inside the Team.
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The text does not say whether you are notified before an administrator deletes or reassigns your content.
Canva and its licensors keep all intellectual property in the Service and Licensed Content
Except as expressly set out in the Terms, all intellectual property rights in and to the Service and Licensed Content remain the sole property of Canva and its licensors. Canva also owns all content, data, software, inventions, ideas and other technology and intellectual property that it develops in connection with the Service and its products.
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Except as expressly set out in these Terms, all intellectual property rights in and to the Service and Licensed Content remain the sole property of Canva and its licensors.
Canva owns all content, data, software, inventions, ideas and other technology and intellectual property that it develops in connection with the Service and its products.
Qualifications & exceptions
Subject to what the Terms expressly set out elsewhere, such as your ownership of User Content as between you and Canva.
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The text does not say whether data Canva develops in connection with the Service can include data derived from your use or content.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You assign to Canva any suggestions, ideas or feedback you give about the Service or Canva’s products
You assign to Canva any suggestions, ideas, enhancement requests or other feedback you provide relating to the Service or Canva’s products. A plain-language box describes this more softly, as letting Canva use the information to improve Canva and Canva owning the improvements; the operative paragraph says the feedback is assigned, and boxes are not legally binding.
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You assign to Canva any suggestions, ideas, enhancement requests, or other feedback you provide to Canva relating to the Service or Canva’s products.
If you share feedback or ideas with us, you’re letting us use that information to improve Canva, and we own any of those improvements we make.
Qualifications & exceptions
Covers feedback relating to the Service or Canva’s products.
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The text does not say whether an assignment carries any payment or credit to you.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Canva assumes no liability for the contents of User Content
Canva is not responsible for, and assumes no liability for, the contents of User Content.
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Canva is not responsible for, and assumes no liability for, the contents of User Content.
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The text does not say how this applies to Canva’s own handling of User Content, such as its license to host and use it.
Content & IP Rights · Company commitment
Canva responds to copyright notices that comply with the DMCA
Canva says it respects the intellectual property rights of artists and content owners and will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. It points to its Intellectual Property Policy for more information.
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We will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
For more information please read our
Qualifications & exceptions
The commitment is to respond to notices that comply with the DMCA.
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The Intellectual Property Policy was not supplied, and it is not in the policies list at the end of the page.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Free my.canva.site URLs add a report tool and a “Designed with Canva” badge, and Canva may reject or remove domain names
If you use a free my.canva.site URL provided by Canva, your website will include a tool to report Canva Sites that do not comply with the Terms and a badge stating “Designed with Canva” (or similar wording) that links to canva.com. Canva may, at its reasonable discretion, reject or remove any domain names it considers inappropriate, for example if the domain name does not comply with the Acceptable Use Policy.
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If you use a free my.canva.site URL provided by Canva, your website will include a tool to report Canva Sites that do not comply with these Terms and a badge that states “Designed with Canva” (or similar wording) that links to canva.com.
Canva may, at its reasonable discretion, reject or remove any domain names that it deems inappropriate
Qualifications & exceptions
The badge and report tool apply when you use a free my.canva.site URL provided by Canva.
Rejection or removal is at Canva’s reasonable discretion.
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The text does not say whether the badge also appears on sites that use a purchased or connected domain.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You must not imply Canva endorsement or register Canva-branded domains; Canva may require terms on your Site
You must not present a misleading endorsement or affiliation with Canva on a Canva Site, including by trying to register a domain name or subdomain name that includes the word “CANVA” or another Canva brand or trademark. Separately, Canva may include or require certain terms to be included on a Canva Site at any time for any reason.
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You must not present a misleading endorsement or affiliation with Canva on a Canva Site
by attempting to register a domain name or subdomain name that includes the word ‘CANVA’ or any other Canva brand or trademark of Canva or its affiliates.
Canva may include or require certain terms to be included on a Canva Site at any time for any reason.
Qualifications & exceptions
The brand restriction is about misleading endorsement or affiliation, with the CANVA domain example given as one way it can occur.
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The text does not say what terms Canva may require on a Canva Site or whether it gives notice before doing so.