One-Time Purchase content is licensed, not sold: you get a limited, revocable, non-transferable personal licence
Access to certain Content associated with a One-Time Purchase is licensed, not sold. Words like "own," "purchase," "sale," "sold," "sell," "rent" or "buy" on the Platform do not transfer ownership or intellectual property rights to you. A One-Time Purchase gives only a limited, revocable, non-transferable licence to access the associated Content for personal, non-commercial purposes, only on the Platform and under these Terms.
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ACCESS TO CERTAIN CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH A ONE-TIME PURCHASE IS LICENSED, NOT SOLD TO YOU.
Any use of the terms “own,” “ownership”, “purchase,” “sale,” “sold,” “sell,” “rent” or “buy” on the Platform or in materials related to the Platform or the Content associated with One-Time Purchases does not mean, imply or result in any transfer of ownership or intellectual property rights to you.
Your One-Time Purchase provides a limited, revocable, non-transferable license to access solely the Content that is associated with the One-Time Purchase for personal, non-commercial purposes only, and only on the Platform, in accordance with these Terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
The licence is revocable, so it can end even though you paid.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Your Subscription is a limited, revocable, non-transferable licence for personal, non-commercial viewing on the Platform
Access to Content on the Platform, including any One-Time Purchases, is licensed, not sold. Your Subscription gives you a limited, revocable, non-transferable licence to access the Platform and its Content solely for personal, non-commercial use, only on the Platform and in line with these Terms.
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Access to Content on the Platform, including any One-Time Purchases, is licensed, not sold, to you.
Your Subscription grants you a limited, revocable, non-transferrable license to access the Platform and the Platform’s Content solely for your personal, non-commercial use, and only on the Platform in accordance with these Terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
Use restrictions that sit on top of this licence are in Section 4.1 and Section 4.3.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Some Content has an access window; once it ends you lose access, and tracking it is your job
Because of restrictions from content licensors and other third-party limits, some Content has an access window. During the window you can watch most Content as many times as you want, but when the window for a title ends you can no longer access it. The access windows vary, and it is your responsibility to monitor the window for each title you want to watch.
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some Content may specify an access window in which you will be able to view the Content. The access windows will vary
DURING THE ACCESS WINDOW, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO VIEW MOST CONTENT AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT BUT ONCE THE ACCESS WINDOW FOR A PARTICULAR CONTENT ITEM ENDS, YOU WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO ACCESS THAT CONTENT.
It is your responsibility to monitor the access window for each piece of Content you would like to view.
Qualifications & exceptions
"Most Content" is the stated scope of unlimited rewatching during the window, not all Content.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Offline downloads are temporary, limited per account and plan, and can lose function outside your Home Country
Some Content on some supported devices and plans can be downloaded temporarily for offline viewing. The company may control how much Downloadable Content each account can hold (across all Authorized Users and devices) and each plan, and the expiration rules for each title, and some categories such as theatrical films may have extra download sub-limits. The Platform tells you the limits and expiry rules. Once downloads expire you may not be able to renew them while outside your Home Country, and you may not be able to view certain downloads made in your Home Country while you are outside it, even if you are still within the Service Area.
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Certain Content on the Platform may be available for temporary download on certain supported devices and on certain Subscription plans in order to allow you to view that Content offline when you do not have a network connection (“Downloadable Content”).
We may control the amount of Downloadable Content permissible for each HBO Max Account (across all Authorized Users and devices) and each Subscription Plan, and the expiration rules for each piece of Downloadable Content.
within each Subscription plan certain Content categories (e.g., theatrical films) may be subject to additional download sub-limits
Once expired you may not be able to renew Downloadable Content while outside of your Home Country. You may not be able to view certain Downloadable Content that you download while in your Home Country when you are outside of your Home Country even though you are within the Service Area.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Anything you send as Feedback can be used by the company freely, without stated payment or credit
Parts of the Platform may invite feedback, comments or other information ("Feedback"). By submitting Feedback you agree that the company is free to use it to improve the Platform or for any other purpose permitted by applicable law. The Terms do not mention payment, credit or confidentiality for Feedback.
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Portions of the Platform may invite you to provide us with feedback, comments or other information (“Feedback”).
By submitting Feedback, you agree that we are free to use the Feedback to improve the Platform or for any other purpose permitted by applicable law.
Qualifications & exceptions
Use is open-ended ("any other purpose") but limited to purposes permitted by applicable law.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Do not send story or idea pitches: they will not be treated as confidential, and you waive claims over them
The company does not accept unsolicited submissions of concepts, creative ideas, suggestions, stories or other potential content, to avoid later misunderstandings about similar projects by its staff or agencies. If you send one anyway, nothing you send will be accepted or considered or treated as confidential. You waive any claim against the company over an unsolicited submission, including claims for compensation, intellectual property infringement, idea theft, plagiarism or misappropriation, and you expressly waive any right to seek or obtain an injunction to stop a project based on, or allegedly based on, your submission.
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We do not accept unsolicited submissions of concepts, creative ideas, suggestions, stories or other potential content.
If you do, please be aware that no material you send to us will be accepted or considered and will not be treated as confidential.
You hereby waive any claim you may have (including without limitation any claim for compensation, intellectual property infringement, idea theft, plagiarism, misappropriation or similar claims) against us in connection with any unsolicited submission.
you expressly waive any right you may have to seek or obtain injunctive relief to prevent the development, execution or release of any project or materials based on or allegedly based on the unsolicited submission
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
If you can post content, the company may screen, edit or remove it without any duty to, and disclaims responsibility
If the Platform lets you or other users upload photos, ratings or videos or post and exchange information, ideas and opinions ("Postings"), the company has the right, but not the obligation, to screen and monitor Postings and may remove or edit any it considers offensive or otherwise in breach of the Agreement, before they appear on the Platform or elsewhere. Postings do not reflect the views of HBO Max, and the company disclaims all responsibility and liability for them.
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If the Platform provides you or other users an opportunity to upload photos, ratings, videos or post and exchange information, content, ideas and opinions (collectively, “Postings”)
we shall have the right, but not the obligation to you, to screen and monitor Postings and may decide to remove or edit any Postings, which we consider to be offensive or otherwise in breach of this Agreement, prior to their appearance on the Platform or elsewhere.
Postings do not reflect the views of HBO Max, and we disclaim all responsibility and liability arising from the Postings.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies only "if the Platform provides" a posting feature.
Not stated here
This section does not say what licence or other rights the company receives in your Postings, apart from the right to screen, edit and remove them.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
When you post, you promise you have the rights, will avoid harmful content, and will not include sensitive personal data
You represent that you have all necessary rights in your Postings and the material in them, and that they will not violate or infringe third-party proprietary, intellectual property or other rights. You also promise not to upload or post nudity, obscene materials, hate speech or other objectionable, offensive, illegal or otherwise harmful material, and not to upload or post sensitive or confidential personal data as part of a Posting.
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You represent that: (a) you have all necessary rights in all Postings you provide and all material, content and information they contain and that your Postings shall not violate or infringe upon any proprietary right, intellectual property right or other rights of third parties;
(b) you will not upload or post any nudity, obscene materials, hate speech or other objectionable, offensive, illegal or otherwise harmful materials to the Platform; and (c) you will not upload or post any sensitive or confidential personal data as part of the Postings.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Content is licensed for private use only: no public showings, and no bypassing encryption or copy protection
The Platform and everything in it are protected by copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets and other rights. Copyright holders licensed the Content for private use only, not for public or commercial exhibition, so you may not show any Content to a public audience or view it in a public location, or try to circumvent, remove, deactivate or defeat any encryption, rights signaling or copy protection for the Content. Unauthorised copying, editing, exhibition, broadcast or distribution of a copyrighted programme can lead to severe criminal and civil penalties under U.S. or other applicable law.
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The Platform, and all materials incorporated into the Platform are protected by copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets or other legal rights.
The copyright holders have licensed this Content for private use only and not for public or commercial exhibition.
This means that you may not: (a) show any Content to any public audience or view it in a public location or (b) attempt to circumvent, avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair or otherwise defeat any encryption, rights signaling or copy protection technology for the Content.
Unauthorized copying, editing, exhibition, broadcast or distribution of a copyrighted program can result in severe criminal and civil penalties under U.S. or any other applicable laws.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Company trademarks, and others' trademarks, may not be used except as they appear in the Platform
Some characters, logos and images on the Platform are protected as the company's registered or unregistered trademarks, trade names or service marks. All other trademarks belong to their owners. Use of the company's trademarks, or anyone else's, is not authorised other than as incorporated into the Platform.
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Some of the characters, logos or other images on the Platform are also protected as our registered or unregistered trademarks, trade names and/or service marks (“Trademarks”).
Use of our Trademarks or of anyone else’s trademarks is not authorized other than as incorporated into the Platform.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Content may be displayed only in the Service Area, for personal use, while your Subscription is in good standing
Unauthorised copying of any part of the Platform, including Content or the underlying software, is described as copyright infringement. You are authorised to access and display Content only in the Service Area, for non-commercial, personal entertainment use on compatible devices, while your Subscription remains active and in good standing, and only as the Agreement allows. If the company authorises you to copy any part of the Platform, that authorisation is limited to viewing a single copy for non-commercial personal entertainment, you must keep all copyright, trademark and proprietary notices intact, and using any material on any other service or networked computer environment is prohibited.
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Please be aware that it is copyright infringement to make an unauthorized copy of any element or any portion of the Platform, including the Content or underlying software.
You are only authorized to access and display Content on the Platform in the Service Area for your non-commercial, personal, entertainment use on compatible devices while your Subscription remains active and in good standing and only as permitted in this Agreement.
If we authorize you to copy any part of the Platform, this authorization is limited to viewing a single copy for non-commercial, personal, entertainment use only, and requires you to keep intact all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices. Using any material on any other service or networked computer environment is prohibited.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may not copy, share, link to, frame, rent, reverse engineer or otherwise exploit the Platform or its Content
Under "You may not," the Terms ban copying, reproducing, distributing, transferring, selling, licensing, publishing, entering into a database, displaying, publicly performing, modifying, creating derivative works from, uploading, editing, posting, linking to, framing, transmitting, renting, leasing, lending or sublicensing, or in any way exploiting any part of the Platform, and attempting to interfere with its operation. A separate item bans reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, deriving source code, capturing, adapting and similar acts in relation to the Platform or any Content, and also bans attempting, encouraging or helping anyone else to do so. The list includes "link to" and "frame", so the wording reaches linking to and framing parts of the Platform.
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You may not:
copy, reproduce, distribute, transfer, sell, license, publish, enter into a database, display, perform publicly, modify, create derivative works, upload, edit, post, link to, frame, transmit, rent, lease, lend or sublicense or in any way exploit any part of the Platform, or attempt to interfere with the operation of the Platform;
reverse engineer, copy, decompile, disassemble, derive the source code of, modify, adapt, capture, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform, transfer, sell, license, create derivative works from or based upon, republish, upload, edit, post, transmit, distribute, exploit, circumvent or otherwise translate, in whole or in part, the Platform or any Content or attempt, or encourage or assist any other person, to take any of the above action; or
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Scraping, data mining, building databases from the Platform and extracting data to train AI models are all banned
You may not use data mining, robots, viruses, worms, bugs or other data-gathering, scraping and extraction tools on the Platform, frame any portion of it, or try to tamper with, hack, corrupt or impair its administration or security. You may not copy, data mine, scrape or otherwise extract any Content or data for the purpose of training any artificial intelligence algorithm, system, model or tool, or any large language or machine learning model or similar technology. You also may not use the Content files or other elements of the Platform to construct any kind of database.
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use any data mining, robots, virus, worms, bugs or other data gathering, scraping and extraction tools on the Platform, or frame any portion of the Platform, or attempt to tamper, hack, corrupt or impair the administration and/or security of the Platform;
copy, data mine, scrape or in any way extract any Content or data for the purpose of training any artificial intelligence algorithm, system, model or tool or any large language or machine learning model or any similar technology;
use the Content files or other elements of the Platform to construct any kind of database;