Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Transactions involving stolen, hateful, obscene, infringing or sexual items are prohibited
You may not use the PayPal service for activities that relate to transactions involving: items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity; stolen goods, including digital and virtual goods; the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other discriminatory intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime; items considered obscene; items that infringe or violate copyright, trademark, rights of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction; and certain sexually oriented materials or services.
Supporting quotations
You may not use the PayPal service for activities that:
(d) items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity, (e) stolen goods including digital and virtual goods, (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime, (g) items that are considered obscene, (h) items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction, (i) certain sexually oriented materials or services,
Qualifications & exceptions
- Only 'certain' sexually oriented materials or services are named; the policy does not say which.
- Infringement is measured under the laws of any jurisdiction, not only one.
- The approval section separately lists adult content delivered digitally as needing pre-approval.
Not stated here
- What counts as obscene, or as a sexually oriented item within 'certain', is not defined in the supplied text.
Cross-references
- contrast (model-proposed): Adult content delivered digitally needs pre-approval — contrast: Certain sexually oriented materials or services are banned, while adult content delivered digitally is a pre-approval category; the policy does not say where the line between them falls.