Defined terms: Notion Content, User Content (including Output) and Content
“Notion Content” is material Notion or its licensors make available through the Service, including text, graphics, images, music, software, machine learning models, audio, video and other works. “User Content” is any Content you provide to be made available through the Service, except Organization Content, and it includes any Output. “Content” collectively covers Notion Content, User Content and Organization Content. The word “Output” is used in the User Content definition but is not defined anywhere in this text.
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“User Content” means any Content that you provide to be made available through the Service (excluding Organization Content). User Content includes any Output.
“Notion Content” means text, graphics, images, music, software, machine learning models, audio, video, works of authorship of any kind, and information or other materials that are posted, generated, provided or otherwise made available through the Service by Notion or its licensors
Qualifications & exceptions
User Content excludes Organization Content, which is content posted to an Organizational Workspace.
User Content includes any Output.
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“Output” is not defined in the saved text, so what it covers (for example whether it means material generated by a Notion feature) is not stated.
Notion does not claim ownership of your User Content but owns the Service and Notion Content
Notion says it does not claim ownership of any User Content and that nothing in the Terms restricts rights you may have to use and exploit your User Content. Subject to that, Notion and its licensors exclusively own the Service and the Notion Content and the related intellectual property. You agree not to remove, alter or obscure copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices in or with the Service or Notion Content.
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We do not claim any ownership rights in any User Content and nothing in these Terms will be deemed to restrict any rights that you may have to use and exploit your User Content.
Notion and its licensors exclusively own all right, title and interest in and to the Service and Notion Content, including all associated intellectual property rights.
You agree not to remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Service or Notion Content.
Qualifications & exceptions
The no-ownership statement covers User Content, which excludes Organization Content; ownership of Organization Content is addressed separately.
The license you grant to Notion in the next card still applies to User Content.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You give Notion a broad license to your User Content, limited to operating and providing the Service
By making User Content available through the Service you grant Notion a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, distribute and modify (for formatting purposes only) your User Content. The license is stated to be solely in connection with operating and providing the Service and Notion Content to you and, depending on the permission you grant, to other users, individuals and organizations. As between you and Notion you keep your rights in your User Content. If you provide Organization Content, who owns it may be set by your agreement with the Organization, and without such an agreement the Organization may own it.
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By making any User Content available through the Service, you hereby grant to Notion a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, distribute and modify (for formatting purposes only), your User Content solely in connection with operating and providing the Service and Notion Content to you and, depending on the permission you grant, to other users, individuals, and/or organizations.
Subject to the foregoing license, as between Notion and you, you retain any and all of your rights to your User Content.
the Organization may own the rights to any such Organization Content.
Qualifications & exceptions
Use is limited by the words solely in connection with operating and providing the Service and Notion Content to you and, depending on your permissions, to others.
Modification is for formatting purposes only.
The license is transferable and carries the right to sublicense.
Organization Content may be owned by the Organization.
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The text does not say how long the license lasts or whether it ends when content is deleted; the deletion text is read in the removal and termination cards.
The Terms do not define what operating the Service includes.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You are solely responsible for your User Content and promise you have the rights to it
You are solely responsible for your User Content. You represent and warrant that you own it or have the rights needed to grant Notion the license in these Terms, and that neither your content, nor your providing it through the Service, nor any use of it by Notion on or through the Service will infringe or violate a third party’s intellectual property, publicity or privacy rights, break a law or regulation, or breach any agreement you have with a third party.
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You are solely responsible for your User Content. You represent and warrant that you own your User Content or you have all rights that are necessary to grant us the license rights in your User Content under these Terms.
nor any use of your User Content by Notion on or through the Service will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party’s intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation or violate any agreement you have with any third party.
Qualifications & exceptions
The promise covers Notion’s own use of your content on or through the Service.
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The text does not say what happens if the promise is untrue, other than through other sections of the Terms.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Notion gives you a limited license to use Notion Content for personal, non-commercial purposes
If you comply with the Terms, Notion grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, with no right to sublicense, to download, view, copy, display and print the Notion Content. The license is solely in connection with your permitted use of the Services and solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes.
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Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Notion grants to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, with no right to sublicense, to download, view, copy, display and print the Notion Content solely in connection with your permitted use of the Services and solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes.
Qualifications & exceptions
Conditioned on compliance with the Terms.
Limited to personal and non-commercial purposes and to permitted use of the Services.
Non-transferable and without sublicensing rights.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Notion may monitor Content and remove or disable access to it at any time without notice
Notion says it is not obligated to monitor access to or use of the Service or Content, or to review or edit Content, but it has the right to do so for the purpose of operating the Service, to ensure compliance with the Terms and to comply with applicable law or other legal requirements. Notion reserves the right, but is not obligated, to remove or disable access to any Content, including User Content, at any time and without notice, including if, in its sole discretion, it considers the Content objectionable or in violation of the Terms.
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Although we’re not obligated to monitor access to or use of the Service or Content or to review or edit any Content, we have the right to do so for the purpose of operating the Service, to ensure compliance with these Terms and to comply with applicable law or other legal requirements.
We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to remove or disable access to any Content, including User Content, at any time and without notice, including, but not limited to, if we, at our sole discretion, consider any Content to be objectionable or in violation of these Terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
Monitoring is described as a right, not an obligation.
Stated purposes for monitoring are operating the Service, ensuring compliance with the Terms and complying with law or legal requirements.
Removal can happen at any time and without notice, and Notion’s own judgment that Content is objectionable can be the basis.
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The text does not say how Notion monitors Content or what automated or human review is used.
The text does not say whether removed Content can be appealed or recovered.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may not post User Content that is unlawful, infringing, deceptive, hateful, violent or promotes illegal activity
Unless applicable law prohibits the restriction or you have Notion’s express written permission, you may not post, upload, publish, submit or transmit User Content that infringes or violates third-party intellectual property, publicity or privacy rights; violates, or encourages conduct that would violate, law or give rise to civil liability; is fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive; is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive; promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; is violent or threatening or promotes violence or threatening actions; or promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances.
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You may not do any of the following, unless applicable laws or regulations prohibit these restrictions, or you have our express written permission to do so:
post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any User Content that: (i) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party’s patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability; (iii) is fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive; (iv) is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive; (v) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; (vi) is violent or threatening or promotes violence or actions that are threatening to any person or entity; or (vii) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances;
Qualifications & exceptions
The list applies unless applicable laws or regulations prohibit the restriction or you have Notion’s express written permission.
The restriction covers User Content you post, upload, publish, submit or transmit.
Content & IP Rights · User right or choice
One account can use several Workspaces that stay separate, and you can export your User Content
A single account can access your own Personal Workspace or Workspaces and your employer’s Organizational Workspace. Workspaces are completely separate: you cannot link Content between them, although you can transfer Content from one Workspace to another. You can export your User Content from your Workspaces for use outside the Service using the export tool on Notion’s online account management page.
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Workspaces are completely separate, and you won’t be able to link any Content between them (although you can transfer Content from one Workspace to another). You can also export your User Content from your Workspaces for use outside of the Service using our export tool available in our online account management page.
your single account can access your own Personal Workspace(s) and your employer’s Organizational Workspace
Qualifications & exceptions
Content cannot be linked between Workspaces but can be transferred.
Export covers User Content from your Workspaces and uses the export tool on the account management page.
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The text does not say which formats the export tool offers or whether it covers Organization Content.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Content posted to an Organizational Workspace is Organization Content, owned by the Organization unless agreed otherwise
If you submit or post Content to an Organizational Workspace, that Content is called Organization Content and, as between you, Notion and the Organization, the Organization will own all rights to it. The Terms add that this does not prevent a separate agreement between you and the Organization about who owns Content as between you and the Organization. The section describes this as stated in the Content section; the Content section words it less firmly, saying the ownership of Organization Content may be set by an agreement between you and the Organization and, without one, the Organization may own the rights.
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if you submit or post Content to an Organizational Workspace (such Content, the “Organization Content”), then as between you, Notion, and such Organization, the Organization will own all rights to such Organization Content. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing does not prevent you from entering into a separate agreement between you and the Organization that addresses ownership of Content as between you and such Organization.
the Organization may own the rights to any such Organization Content.
“User Content” means any Content that you provide to be made available through the Service (excluding Organization Content).
Qualifications & exceptions
A separate agreement between you and the Organization can address ownership as between you and the Organization.
The Content section says may own where this section says will own.
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The text does not say how the may in the Content section and the will in this section are meant to be reconciled.
Cross-references
contrast (model-proposed): You give Notion a broad license to your User Content, limited to operating and providing the Service — contrast: The Content section says the Organization may own Organization Content when there is no agreement, while the Organizational Workspaces section says the Organization will own all rights, with a separate agreement still allowed. The two sentences pull in different directions and the text does not reconcile them.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Feedback you give on Beta Services is owned and used by Notion for its own purposes
You may give Notion feedback about Beta Services. Notion will own and may use and evaluate all of that feedback for its own purposes. The Feedback section separately says feedback becomes Notion’s sole and exclusive property and that you assign your rights in it.
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You may provide Notion with feedback relating to the Beta Services. Notion will own and may use and evaluate all feedback for its own purposes.
Qualifications & exceptions
Covers feedback relating to the Beta Services.
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The Beta Services paragraph does not say whether Notion may disclose the feedback to others; the Feedback section does.
Content & IP Rights · Company commitment
Notion responds to copyright infringement claims under its DMCA Policy, which is linked and not supplied
Notion says it respects the intellectual property rights of others and that its policy is to respond to claims that materials posted in the Service infringe a copyright in accordance with its DMCA Policy. The DMCA Policy is only linked, so how claims and counter-notices work is not read here.
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We respect the intellectual property rights of others. It is our policy to respond to claims that materials posted in the Service infringe on the copyright of any person or entity in accordance with our
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to claims that materials posted in the Service infringe copyright.
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The DMCA Policy is linked and not supplied, so the claim and counter-notice steps are not known.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Notion and its licensors own the Service, its Content, features and functionality; its trademarks need written consent
The Service and its Content, features and functionality are and will remain the exclusive property of Notion and its licensors. The Content covered here excludes User Content and Organization Content. The Service is protected by copyright, trademark and other laws of the United States and foreign countries. Notion’s trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service without Notion’s prior written consent.
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The Service and its Content (excluding User Content and Organization Content), features and functionality are and will remain the exclusive property of Notion and its licensors.
Our trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service without the prior written consent of Notion.
Qualifications & exceptions
Excludes User Content and Organization Content.
Trademark use requires Notion’s prior written consent.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Feedback you give becomes Notion’s property, Notion may use and disclose it freely, and you assign your rights
Notion welcomes feedback, comments and suggestions about the Service. By contributing Feedback you get no right, title or interest in the Service or the Feedback. All Feedback becomes Notion’s sole and exclusive property, and Notion may use and disclose it in any manner and for any purpose without further notice or compensation to you. You assign to Notion all right, title and interest, including patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark and moral rights, that you may have in the Feedback.
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All Feedback becomes the sole and exclusive property of Notion, and Notion may use and disclose Feedback in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever without further notice or compensation to you and without retention by you of any proprietary or other right or claim.
You hereby assign to Notion any and all right, title and interest (including, but not limited to, any patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark, show-how, know-how, moral rights and any and all other intellectual property right) that you may have in and to any and all Feedback.
Qualifications & exceptions
Notion may use and disclose Feedback without notice or compensation.
The assignment covers any intellectual property right you may have in the Feedback.
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The text does not say whether content you post in a Workspace could count as Feedback; User Content is covered by separate rules.