After you pay or complete a transaction you get a non-exclusive license for personal, non-commercial use only
Once you complete a transaction or pay the applicable fees for a Paid Service, you may access and use it for your personal, non-commercial use only, and only as long as you comply with the Terms and the law. Your license to the Paid Services, including any content offered through them, is non-exclusive, and Google and its licensors keep all rights, title and interest not expressly granted to you.
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After completing a transaction or paying the applicable fees for a Paid Service, you may access and use that Paid Service, for your personal, non-commercial use only, and as long as you comply with the Terms and the law.
Your license to the Paid Services (including any content offered through the Paid Services) is non-exclusive and all rights, title and interest in the Paid Services not expressly granted to you in these Terms are reserved by Google and its licensors.
Qualifications & exceptions
Use must stay personal and non-commercial and comply with the Terms and the law.
The license covers the Paid Services and content offered through them.
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The page does not say how long the license lasts; later sections address content removal and terms changes.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may not use a Paid Service in connection with any public presentation, even if no fee is charged
You agree not to use any Paid Service, in whole or in part, in connection with any public presentation, even where no fee is charged. The only exception stated is where the use would not constitute a copyright infringement.
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You agree not to use any Paid Service, in whole or in part, in connection with any public presentation even if no fee is charged (except where such use would not constitute a copyright infringement).
Qualifications & exceptions
Exception: use that would not constitute a copyright infringement.
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The page does not define "public presentation".
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may not share your password, or copy, sell, rent or sublicense the Paid Services
When you use the Paid Services you may not, or attempt to, share your Google account password with someone else so they can access a Paid Service they did not order, or copy, sell, rent or sublicense the Paid Services to any third party. The restriction on password sharing is about letting someone reach a Paid Service they did not order.
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When you use the Paid Services, you may not (or attempt to):
share your Google account password with someone else to allow them to access any Paid Service they did not order;
copy, sell, rent, or sublicense the Paid Services to any third party;
Qualifications & exceptions
The password rule covers access to a Paid Service the other person did not order.
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The page does not say what sharing within a family group is allowed for each Paid Service; Additional Terms address some plans.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Content in a Paid Service can become limited or unavailable because of partner restrictions or legal or policy reasons
The availability of content in a Paid Service can change over time. Content may become limited or unavailable because of restrictions from the partners who license the content to Google, or for legal or policy reasons. The remedies for removed rentals and purchases follow in the next card.
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The availability of content on a Paid Service may change from time to time, including when content within a Paid Service becomes limited or unavailable due to restrictions from our partners who license us that content, or for legal or policy reasons.
Qualifications & exceptions
Causes named: partner licensing restrictions and legal or policy reasons.
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The page does not say how you will be told when content becomes unavailable.
Content & IP Rights · User right or choice
Removed rentals and purchases within five years get a refund or replacement; after five years it is Google's option
For rentals, if content becomes removed or unavailable during your rental period you are entitled to a refund or a reasonable replacement. For purchased content, if it becomes removed or unavailable within the first five years after your purchase you are entitled to a refund or a reasonable replacement. If it becomes removed or unavailable after those five years and you could not download a copy before it became unavailable (if downloading applies), Google may, at its option, offer either a reasonable replacement or a full or partial refund of the price.
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For rentals of content: if content becomes removed or unavailable during your rental period, you will be entitled to either a refund or to a reasonable replacement.
For purchased content: (a) if the content becomes removed or unavailable during the first five years after your purchase, you will be entitled to a refund or a reasonable replacement or (b) if the content becomes removed or unavailable following such five year period, and you are not able to download a copy of the affected content before it becomes unavailable (if applicable), then we may, at our option, offer you either a reasonable replacement of the content or a full or partial refund of the price of the content.
Qualifications & exceptions
Within five years of purchase the remedy is an entitlement; after five years it depends on Google's choice and on whether you could download a copy.
The after-five-years remedy can be a partial refund.
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The page does not define what is a "reasonable replacement" or whether download is available for each item.
Content & IP Rights · User right or choice
Paid Services include user and partner content, and you can report content that breaks the Community Guidelines
The Paid Services include content uploaded or otherwise submitted by users and partners. If you see content you believe does not comply with the Community Guidelines, the terms ask you to notify YouTube by following the instructions on a linked page.
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The Paid Services include content uploaded or otherwise submitted by our users and partners. If you see any content which you believe does not comply with our Community Guidelines, please notify us by following the instructions
Qualifications & exceptions
Reporting is by following the instructions on the linked page.
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The reporting instructions page is not supplied here.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
YouTube TV content can change at any time and may not be downloaded or viewed online or on unauthorized devices
YouTube TV content is unique, subject to the content restrictions in these terms and may change at any time. Subscribers may not allow any person or device to download content available through YouTube TV, or to view YouTube TV content online or through an unauthorized device. Content may not always be available or may not be available on all devices.
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The content in YouTube TV is unique, subject to all the content restrictions listed here and may change at any time.
YouTube TV subscribers may not allow any person or device to download the content available through YouTube TV or allow any person or device to view YouTube TV content online or through an unauthorized device.
Qualifications & exceptions
The ban covers allowing any person or device to download or to view online or on an unauthorized device.
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The page does not define "view online" as distinct from using the YouTube TV service itself.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
YouTube TV content can be blacked out or vary by location, device and time zone, and VOD offerings can change
Some content may not be authorized for particular geographic or metropolitan areas or devices, and some programming may be blacked out with substitute programming shown instead. Google's content partners decide what programming they include and may change programs and promotional materials at any time, and availability can differ by time zone. Any Video On Demand (VOD) offerings in YouTube TV can change at any time, including content in a package you subscribed to or any package. Location differences may include different broadcast stations, different regional sports networks, or no service offering in a location. VOD offerings may also vary in features such as fast forward, look back or start over.
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Some content may not be authorized for particular geographic or metropolitan areas, some content may not be authorized for particular devices, and/or some programming may not be available or may be blacked out and substitute programming may be shown instead.
Content availability may also differ by time zone.
In addition, if any Video On Demand (“VOD”) offerings are made available in YouTube TV, those offerings are subject to change at any time
Differences in YouTube TV offerings on a geographic basis may include: different broadcast stations; different regional sports networks (“RSNs”), or no service offering in a location at all.
Qualifications & exceptions
Location differences may include different broadcast stations, regional sports networks or no offering in some locations.
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The page does not list which areas are blacked out or which stations and networks are available.
Content & IP Rights · Company commitment
Captions are provided as required by law; essential data stays and quality is meant to meet minimum thresholds
Closed captioning, video description information and other data are provided as required by law or regulation. Content partners may include program signaling, secondary audio, watermarks and non-essential data at their discretion. YouTube TV will not remove essential data from the content and will work to ensure audio and video quality meets minimum thresholds.
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Closed captioning, video description information, and other data will be provided as required by law or regulation.
YouTube TV will not remove any essential data from the content and will work to ensure that the audio and video quality meets minimum thresholds.
Qualifications & exceptions
The quality commitment is to "work to ensure" minimum thresholds, not a guarantee.
Watermarks and non-essential data may be included at the content partner's discretion.
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The minimum quality thresholds are not stated.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
YouTube TV recordings are for personal use only, must be future-looking, and cannot use ad-skipping tools
Recording and playback in YouTube TV is solely for the subscriber's personal, non-commercial use and not for group viewing. Recording must always be future-looking and at the subscriber's volition. YouTube TV prohibits devices, technology or services that automatically tune away from, or skip or delete, advertising or promotions on a recorded program; manual scrubbing is the exception. Viewing of programming and advertising during playback of a recording may be measured in the same way as for linear distribution.
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Recording and playback of content within YouTube TV is solely for a subscriber's personal, non-commercial use and not for group viewing.
Recording must always be future-looking and at the subscriber’s volition.
YouTube TV prohibits the use of any device, technology, or service allowing users to automatically tune away from, or to skip or delete (other than manual scrubbing), advertising or promotions on a recorded program.
Programming and advertising viewership by a subscriber may be measured during playback of a recording in the same manner as for linear distribution of the programs.
Qualifications & exceptions
Manual scrubbing is excluded from the ban on skipping or deleting ads.
Measurement of viewing during playback applies to recorded programs.
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The page does not explain how "future-looking" is enforced.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Recording may be unavailable for some programs, and a recording may be swapped for a start-over or VOD version
Recording may not be available on every program, at the content partner's discretion. To the extent available, the version a subscriber recorded may be replaced with a start-over program, a VOD or another version of the program.
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Recording may not be available on all programs, at the content partner’s discretion. To the extent available, the subscriber-recorded version of a program may be replaced with a start over program, a VOD or another program version.
Qualifications & exceptions
Both statements depend on availability and the content partner's discretion.
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The page does not say how a subscriber is told that a recording was replaced.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
YouTube TV bans downloadable, transferable or uploadable copies and any recording outside its own tools
YouTube TV prohibits copies of content that a subscriber can download, other than caching, sideload, transfer or upload. Apart from the recording services provided within YouTube TV, subscribers are prohibited from any recording, copying, storage, retransmission or redistribution of any linear or VOD program.
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YouTube TV prohibits downloadable (other than caching), sideloadable, transferable, or uploadable copies of content by a subscriber.
Other than recording services provided within YouTube TV, subscribers are prohibited from any recording, copying, storage, retransmission or redistribution of any linear or VOD program.
Qualifications & exceptions
Caching is carved out of the ban on downloadable copies.
The recording exception is limited to recording services provided within YouTube TV.
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The page does not define what counts as "caching".
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Using recording functions gives subscribers no rights or license, and playback must follow usage rules that can change
Recording playback must comply with YouTube TV's usage rules, which may change from time to time. Subscribers receive no rights or license from using the recording functions, from recording activities, or from any network- or remote-storage of a recording. Using the recording functionality is allowed only to the extent permissible under copyright and other applicable laws.
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Recording playback must comply with these usage rules which may change from time to time.
Subscribers are not granted any rights or license by use of recording functions, through recording activities, or through any network- or remote-storage of recording.
Use of the recording functionality can only be undertaken to the extent permissible under copyright and other applicable laws.
Qualifications & exceptions
The usage rules may change over time.
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The usage rules for recording playback are not set out in this page beyond what is carded.
YouTube TV logos and content belong to Google or its partners; subscribers gain no ownership or affiliation
The YouTube TV logo and other trademarks, graphics, logos, scripts and sounds belong to Google and/or its content partners, and may not be used, copied, downloaded or otherwise exploited by a subscriber. Subscribers do not gain any sponsorship, affiliation or association with the content, networks, programs or producers. Content partners are the exclusive owners of the programming service and content, even when a subscriber stores a copy, and subscribers obtain no proprietary rights through using the service.
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None of the trademarks or content displayed through YouTube TV may be used by a subscriber, copied, downloaded, or otherwise exploited.
Content partners are the exclusive owner of the programming service and content distributed on YouTube TV, even when a copy of the content is stored by a subscriber. Subscribers do not obtain any proprietary rights in a programming service or content by using the service.
Qualifications & exceptions
The restriction covers trademarks and content displayed through YouTube TV.
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The page does not list the content partners.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Primetime Channel content is subject to the Community Guidelines, so some content may be unavailable on YouTube
Content availability on each Primetime Channel is subject to YouTube's Community Guidelines. Because of this, or for other legal or policy reasons, you may not be able to watch all the content that a Primetime Channel content partner would otherwise offer on YouTube, and in some cases that content may be available only from the content partner directly.
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Content availability on each Primetime Channel is subject to YouTube
Therefore, because of this or other legal or policy reasons, you may not be able to watch all of the content that would otherwise be available from a Primetime Channel content partner on YouTube and in some cases, this content may only be available from the content partner directly.
Qualifications & exceptions
Reasons given: the Community Guidelines or other legal or policy reasons.
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The Community Guidelines are not supplied here, so which content is affected is unknown.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Primetime Channel content can be restricted by location, time zone or device and blacked out, and partners can change it
Some Primetime Channel content may not be downloaded. Some content may not be authorized, and so not available, for particular geographic or metropolitan areas, time zones or devices. Some programming, especially certain sports programming, may be subject to local or regional blackout, with substitute programming shown instead. Google's content partners decide what programming they include in each Primetime Channel and may modify programs, program elements, promotional or other materials at any time, and availability can differ by time zone.
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Some Primetime Channel content may not be downloaded. Some Primetime Channel content may not be authorized, and therefore not available, for particular geographic or metropolitan areas, time zones, or particular devices.
In addition, some programming, especially certain sports programming, may be subject to local or regional blackout and substitute programming may be shown instead.
content partners have discretion over the programming they include in each of their Primetime Channels and may modify programs, program elements, promotional or other materials at any time.
Qualifications & exceptions
Blackouts are described as especially affecting certain sports programming.
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The page does not list which programming is blacked out or which areas are affected.
Content & IP Rights · Company commitment
Primetime Channel captions are provided as required by law; essential data stays and quality is meant to meet minimums
Closed captioning, video description information and other data are provided as required by law or regulation. Content partners may include program signaling, secondary audio, watermarks and non-essential data at their discretion. YouTube will not remove essential data from Primetime Channel content and will work to ensure audio and video quality meets minimum thresholds.
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Closed captioning, video description information, and other data will be provided as required by law or regulation.
YouTube will not remove any essential data from Primetime Channel content and will work to ensure that the audio and video quality meets minimum thresholds.
Qualifications & exceptions
The quality commitment is to "work to ensure" minimum thresholds.
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The minimum quality thresholds are not stated.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Primetime Channel live playback is for personal, non-commercial use only, not group viewing, and may be measured
Live playback of content within a Primetime Channel is solely for your personal, non-commercial use and not for group viewing. Your programming and advertising viewership may be measured during live playback in the same manner as for linear distribution of the programs. Using the live playback functionality is allowed only to the extent permissible under copyright and other applicable laws.
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Live playback of content within a Primetime Channel is solely for your personal, non-commercial use and not for group viewing.
Your programming and advertising viewership may be measured during live playback in the same manner as for linear distribution of the programs.
Use of the live playback functionality can only be undertaken to the extent permissible under copyright and other applicable laws.
Qualifications & exceptions
Use is allowed only as far as copyright and other applicable laws permit.
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The page does not say who receives the viewership measurements.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Primetime Channel logos and content belong to Google or its partners; subscribers gain no ownership or affiliation
The YouTube logo and other trademarks, graphics, logos, scripts and sounds are trademarks of Google and/or its Primetime Channel content partners, and you may not use, copy, download or otherwise exploit them or materials displayed through YouTube. You gain no sponsorship, affiliation or association with any Primetime Channel content, network, program or producer. Primetime Channel content partners are the exclusive owners of their programming and content, even when you store a copy, and you gain no proprietary rights by using the service.
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You may not use, copy, download or otherwise exploit any of these Google and/or Primetime Channel content partners
Primetime Channel content partners are the exclusive owner of the Primetime Channel programming and content distributed on their Primetime Channel, even when a copy of the content is stored by you. You do not obtain any proprietary rights in any Primetime Channel or its programming or content by using the YouTube Primetime Channel service.
Qualifications & exceptions
Restrictions cover trademarks and materials displayed through YouTube.
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The page does not list the content partners.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
NFL Sunday Ticket content can be blacked out or vary by location, time zone and device, and the NFL can change it
Some ST Services content may not be authorized, and so may be unavailable, for particular geographic or metropolitan areas, time zones or devices, with wireless phones, pagers, smart phones and personal digital assistants given among the examples. Some programming may be subject to local or regional blackout and then will not be available to you. The NFL has discretion over the programming included in the ST Services and may change programs, program elements and promotional or other materials at any time.
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Some ST Services content may not be authorized, and therefore may not be available, for particular geographic or metropolitan areas, time zones, or particular devices
some programming may be subject to local or regional blackout in which case such programming will not be available to you.
The NFL has discretion over the programming that is included in the ST Services and may modify programs, program elements, promotional or other materials at any time.
Qualifications & exceptions
Device examples are introduced by "including, but not limited to".
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The page does not list which games or areas are blacked out.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Premium features can be restricted or vary, and experimental features can be updated or removed without notice
Features included with your Premium Services may come with certain restrictions and may vary by plan, device, country or other reasons. Some features may be experimental, and Google reserves the right to update or remove them at any time without any notice. You must have an Internet connection to stream or download content.
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included with your Premium Services may come with certain restrictions, may vary by plan, device, country or for other reasons. Some features may be experimental, and we reserve the right to update or remove them at any time without any notice.
You must have an Internet connection to stream or download content
Qualifications & exceptions
The no-notice right is stated for experimental features.
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The linked pages on features, supported devices, downloads and streaming limits are not supplied, so the actual restrictions are unknown.