Content you post stays yours; Etsy says it makes no claim to it
What you post using the Services, such as shop names, profile pictures, listing photos and descriptions, reviews, comments, videos and usernames, is called Your Content. Etsy says it does not make any claim to Your Content and does not claim ownership of it, while stating that it has your permission to use Your Content to help Etsy function and grow (the license is described in the next cards).
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Content that you post using our Services is your content (so let’s refer to it as “Your Content”). We don’t make any claim to it, which includes anything you post using our Services (like shop names, profile pictures, listing photos, listing descriptions, reviews, comments, videos, usernames, etc.).
We don’t claim any ownership to Your Content, but we have your permission to use it to help Etsy function and grow.
Qualifications & exceptions
Not claiming ownership sits alongside the license you grant Etsy to use Your Content.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You are solely responsible for Your Content and represent you have the rights to post it
You are solely responsible for what you post. By posting it, you represent that you have all necessary rights to every part of Your Content and that posting it does not infringe or violate any third party's rights.
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You understand that you are solely responsible for Your Content. You represent that you have all necessary rights to all parts of Your Content and that you’re not infringing or violating any third party’s rights by posting it.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Posting content gives Etsy, and third parties it authorizes, a broad, perpetual, irrevocable license to use it
By posting Your Content, you grant Etsy, and third parties that Etsy authorizes in its sole discretion, a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, sub-licensable, perpetual license to use, display, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, store and prepare derivative works of Your Content. The Terms say this lets Etsy provide the Services and promote Etsy, your shop, other shops and listings, or the Services in general, in any formats and through any channels, including across Etsy Services, Etsy's partners, and third-party websites or advertising media.
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By posting Your Content through our Services, you grant Etsy and, as authorized by Etsy in its sole discretion, third parties, a license to use it.
By posting Your Content, you grant Etsy and, as authorized by Etsy in its sole discretion, third parties, a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, sub-licensable, perpetual license to use, display, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, store, and prepare derivative works of Your Content. This allows us to provide the Services and to promote Etsy, your Etsy shop, other shops and listings, or the Services in general, in any formats and through any channels, including across any Etsy Services, our partners, or third-party website or advertising medium.
Any ideas or other materials you submit to Etsy (not including Your Content or items you sell through our Services) are considered non-confidential and non-proprietary to you.
Qualifications & exceptions
Third parties can use the license only as authorized by Etsy in its sole discretion.
The license is described as non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, sub-licensable and perpetual.
The stated purposes are providing the Services and promoting Etsy, your shop, other shops and listings, or the Services in general.
Ideas or other materials you submit to Etsy are covered by a separate license in Section 6.F, which excludes Your Content.
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The license text does not say what happens to it when you delete content or close your account. Section 7 (termination) is the place to look for account-closing effects.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Etsy's examples: resizing, translating and promoting your photos, even on a billboard
Etsy says the license is necessary to keep Etsy going and gives examples of what it allows. If you upload a photo or video of a listing, Etsy may display it to buyers and resize or enhance it for the mobile app. If you write a description in English, Etsy may translate it into French for a buyer in Paris. If you post a photo or video of a product, Etsy may feature it, often with your shop name and shop picture, on its homepage, in a blog or even on a billboard to promote your business and Etsy's.
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if you upload a photo or video of a listing on your Etsy shop, we have permission to display it to buyers, and we can resize or enhance it so it looks good to a buyer using our mobile app; if you post a description in English, we can translate it into French so a buyer in Paris can learn the story behind your item; and if you post a beautiful photo or video of your latest handmade necklace, we can feature it– often along with your shop name and shop picture– on our homepage, in one of our blogs or even on a billboard to help promote your business and Etsy’s.
Qualifications & exceptions
These are introduced as examples of the license, not as a complete list.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You agree not to assert moral rights or publicity rights against Etsy's use of Your Content
As part of the license, you agree not to assert any moral rights or rights of publicity against Etsy for using Your Content.
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You agree not to assert any moral rights or rights of publicity against us for using Your Content.
Qualifications & exceptions
Tied to Etsy's use of Your Content under the license.
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
Report content posted without your permission through the Intellectual Property Policy
If content you own or have rights to is on the Services without your permission and you want it removed, the Terms say to follow the steps in Etsy's Intellectual Property Policy. If Your Content is alleged to infringe someone else's intellectual property, Etsy says it will take appropriate action, such as disabling it on receiving an infringement report that complies with its policies, or terminating your account if you are found to be a repeat infringer. Etsy says it will notify you if either happens.
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If content that you own or have rights to has been posted to the Services without your permission and you want it removed, please follow the steps listed in our [Intellectual Property Policy](https://www.etsy.com/legal/ip). If Your Content is alleged to infringe another person’s intellectual property, we will take appropriate action, such as disabling it if we receive a report of infringement that complies with our policies, or terminating your account if you are found to be a repeat infringer. We’ll notify you if any of that happens.
Qualifications & exceptions
Disabling content is tied to receiving a report that complies with Etsy's policies.
Account termination is tied to being found a repeat infringer.
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The Intellectual Property Policy is linked, not supplied, so its steps are not known from this document.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You agree not to post abusive, offensive, false or misleading content
You agree not to post content that is abusive, threatening, defamatory, obscene, vulgar or otherwise offensive, or that violates the Prohibited Items Policy, the Community Policy or any part of the Terms. You also agree not to post content that is false and misleading, or that uses the Services in a fraudulent or deceptive way.
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You agree that you will not post any content that is abusive, threatening, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, or otherwise offensive or in violation of our [Prohibited Items Policy](https://www.etsy.com/legal/prohibited), [Community Policy](https://www.etsy.com/legal/community), or any part of our Terms. You also agree not to post any content that is false and misleading or uses the Services in a manner that is fraudulent or deceptive.
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The Prohibited Items Policy and Community Policy are linked, not supplied, so the specific items they prohibit are not known from this document.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You get a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Services
Etsy grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to use its Services. The license is subject to the Terms and to the specific restrictions listed in this section (laws, fees and taxes, scraping and reverse engineering, system interference, trademarks, ideas and electronic communications).
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License to Use Our Services. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to use our Services—subject to the Terms and the following restrictions in particular:
Qualifications & exceptions
The license is subject to the Terms and the restrictions that follow in Section 6.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Using Etsy's trademarks requires following its Trademark Policy
The name "Etsy" and other Etsy marks, phrases, logos and designs used with the Services are described as trademarks, service marks or trade dress of Etsy in the US and other countries. If you want to use Etsy's trademarks, you agree to follow the Trademark Policy.
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If you’d like to use our trademarks, you agree to follow our [Trademark Policy](https://www.etsy.com/legal/trademarks).
The name "Etsy" and the other Etsy marks, phrases, logos, and designs that we use in connection with our Services (the Etsy Trademarks), are trademarks, service marks, or trade dress of Etsy in the US and other countries.
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The Trademark Policy is linked, not supplied.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Ideas and materials you submit to Etsy are non-confidential and licensed to Etsy for any purpose
Any ideas or other materials you submit to Etsy, not including Your Content or items you sell through the Services, are considered non-confidential and non-proprietary to you. You grant Etsy a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, sub-licensable, perpetual license to use and publish those ideas and materials for any purpose, without compensation to you.
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Any ideas or other materials you submit to Etsy (not including Your Content or items you sell through our Services) are considered non-confidential and non-proprietary to you. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, sub-licensable, perpetual license to use and publish those ideas and materials for any purpose, without compensation to you.
Qualifications & exceptions
Does not cover Your Content or items you sell through the Services, which are covered by the separate license in Section 5.
The license permits use and publishing "for any purpose" and without compensation.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Etsy is not responsible for other users' content, and you release it from liability relating to that content
You may come across materials you find offensive or inappropriate. Etsy makes no representations about content users post, and says it is not responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of user content you access through the Services. You release Etsy from all liability relating to that content.
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We make no representations concerning any content posted by users through the Services. Etsy is not responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of content posted by users that you accessed through the Services. You release us from all liability relating to that content.