As a Subscriber you may access subscriber services or purchase Hardware. Content and Services means the Steam client and any other software, content and updates via Steam including Valve or third-party games and Marketplace virtual items. Subscriptions means rights to access or use Content and Services via Steam.
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B. Hardware, Subscriptions; Content and Services
As a Subscriber you may obtain access to certain services
"Content and Services;"
"Subscriptions."
Qualifications & exceptions
Hardware as defined below
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Personal noncommercial license
Steam and Subscriptions require download and installation. Valve grants you a non-exclusive right to use Content and Services for personal non-commercial use except where commercial use is expressly allowed here or in Subscription Terms. The license ends on termination of this Agreement or the Subscription including the license. Content is licensed not sold with no title or ownership. You must have a Steam Account and may need to run the Steam client with Internet connection.
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LICENSES
A. General Content and Services License
a non-exclusive license and right, to use the Content and Services for your personal, non-commercial use
The Content and Services are licensed, not sold.
Qualifications & exceptions
Commercial use only where expressly allowed
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Automatic updates consented
For system security, stability and multiplayer interoperability, Valve may need to automatically update, preload, create new versions or enhance Content and Services, so system requirements may change over time. You consent to such automatic updating. The Agreement does not entitle you to future updates, new versions or enhancements unless required by applicable law, although Valve may provide them in its sole discretion.
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Valve may need to automatically update
You consent to such automatic updating.
does not entitle you to future updates
Qualifications & exceptions
Future updates only where required by applicable law
Content & IP Rights · Context
Beta use is optional testing
Valve may make pre-release Beta Software available via Steam. You need not use it but may elect to under stated terms. Beta counts as Content and Services and each item as a Subscription with beta-specific provisions. The B Beta heading introduces these rules.
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B. Beta Software License
You are not required to use Beta Software
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Beta limits and feedback
Beta use may be time limited and subject to extra Subscription Terms. Valve or affiliates may request or require suggestions, feedback or data about your Beta use, which is deemed User Generated Content under Section 6 below.
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Your right to use the Beta Software may be limited in time
which will be deemed User Generated Content under Section 6
Qualifications & exceptions
Section 6 UGC rules cited but detailed in later section
Not stated here
Full Section 6 UGC obligations for beta feedback
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Beta is error prone test only
Beyond Section 7 waivers and liability limits for all Software, you acknowledge Beta is only for testing and improvement to give Valve quality and usability feedback, therefore contains errors and is not final. If you install or use Beta, use it only for testing and improvement per its system requirements and never on a system or for purposes where malfunction can cause damage. Maintain full backups of any system with Beta installed.
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you specifically acknowledge that Beta Software is only released for testing and improvement purposes
maintain full backups of any system that you choose to install Beta Software on
Qualifications & exceptions
Section 7 limits cited but detailed in later section
Not stated here
Full Section 7 waiver and liability text for beta
Content & IP Rights · Context
Developer tools section begins
Section C License to Use Valve Developer Tools begins here. Substantive tool permissions are in the next packet starting at b60; this heading marks the boundary.
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C. License to Use Valve Developer Tools
Qualifications & exceptions
Substantive permissions deferred to next packet
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Dev tools noncommercial use
Subscriptions may include Valve Developer Tools such as Source SDK, Source Engine, Hammer editor, Source Filmmaker or in-game editing tools. Particular tools may have separate Subscription Terms different from this Section. Except as in separate terms for a tool, you may use the tools and use, reproduce, publish, perform, display and distribute content you create with them however you wish, but solely on a non-commercial basis.
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Except as set forth in any separate Subscription Terms
solely on a non-commercial basis
Qualifications & exceptions
Separate Subscription Terms may differ for particular tools
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
Contact for commercial SDK use
If you want commercial use of Source Engine SDK or other Valve Developer Tools, contact Valve at the listed source engine email.
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If you would like to use the Source Engine SDK
please contact Valve at sourceengine@valvesoftware.com
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Fan Art noncommercial allowed
Valve permits community Fan Art, fan fiction and audio-visual works referencing Valve games. You may incorporate Valve game content into Fan Art. Except as in this Section or Subscription Terms, you may use, reproduce, publish, perform, display and distribute Fan Art with Valve game content however you wish, but solely non-commercially.
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D. License to Use Valve Game Content in Fan Art.
You may incorporate content from Valve games into your Fan Art.
solely on a non-commercial basis
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Clear third-party Fan Art rights
If you include third-party content in Fan Art, you must obtain all necessary rights from that content owner.
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you must be sure to obtain all necessary rights from the owner
Content & IP Rights · Context
Workshop commercial terms elsewhere
Commercial use of some Valve game content is permitted via features such as Steam Workshop or Subscription Marketplace. Terms for that use are in Sections 3.D and 6.B below and in Subscription Terms for those features.
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Commercial use of some Valve game content is permitted
Sections 3.D. and 6.B. below
Qualifications & exceptions
Sections 3.D and 6.B cited but detailed in later packets
Not stated here
Full Sections 3.D and 6.B commercial terms
Content & IP Rights · Context
Video policy is separate
Additional terms for audio-visual works with Valve IP or made with Source Filmmaker are in the Valve video policy at the linked page.
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To view the Valve video policy
Qualifications & exceptions
Linked video policy not supplied in this source
Not stated here
Full video policy terms
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Host servers at own cost
Subscriptions may include Valve Dedicated Server Software. You may use it on unlimited computers to host online multiplayer games of Valve products. You are solely responsible for Internet, bandwidth, hardware and all costs for operating it.
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E. License to Use Valve Dedicated Server Software
you may use the Valve Dedicated Server Software on an unlimited number of computers
you will be solely responsible for procuring any Internet access
Content & IP Rights · Context
Valve retains ownership
All title, ownership and IP rights in Content and Services and copies are owned by Valve or its licensors. All rights reserved except as expressly stated. Content is protected by copyright laws and treaties. Licensed materials may be protected on violation.
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F. Ownership of Content and Services
are owned by Valve and/or its or its affiliates
All rights are reserved, except as expressly stated herein.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
No copying or reverse engineering
You may not use Content and Services beyond permitted Steam and Subscription access and personal non-commercial Subscription use, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement or Subscription Terms. Except as otherwise permitted here, by Rules, or by applicable law overriding these limits, you may not copy, reproduce, publish, distribute, translate, reverse engineer, derive source, modify, disassemble, decompile, create derivatives, or remove notices without prior written Valve consent.
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G. Restrictions on Use of Content and Services
You may not use the Content and Services for any purpose other than the permitted access
without the prior consent, in writing, of Valve
Qualifications & exceptions
Applicable law may permit uses notwithstanding these limits
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
No sale hosting or commercial exploit
For personal use you are not entitled to sell, secure, transfer, rent, lease or license Content to others without prior written Valve consent except as expressly permitted elsewhere including Subscription Terms or Rules. You may not host or provide matchmaking, emulate or redirect Valve communication protocols via emulation, tunneling, modification or utilities for any purpose including Internet or network play or aggregation without prior consent. You may not exploit Content commercially except as expressly permitted elsewhere including Subscription Terms or Rules.
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You are entitled to use the Content and Services for your own personal use
without the prior written consent of Valve
exploit the Content and Services or any of its parts for any commercial purpose
Content & IP Rights · Context
UGC means user shared content
Steam provides interfaces and tools for you to generate content and share it with other users or Valve at your discretion. User Generated Content means content you make available to others via multi-user Steam features, or to Valve or affiliates via Content and Services or otherwise. The UGC section and A General Provisions headings introduce this.
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USER GENERATED CONTENT
A. General Provisions
User Generated Content
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Broad UGC license to Valve
When you upload content to Steam for others or Valve, you grant Valve and affiliates a worldwide non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, modify, create derivatives, distribute, transmit, transcode, translate, broadcast, communicate, publicly display and perform your UGC and its derivatives, to operate, distribute, incorporate and promote Steam service, games and offerings including Subscriptions. The license lasts for the full IP duration from upload. It may end only if Valve breaches and fails to cure within 14 days after your notice to Valve Legal at the Privacy Policy address. Ending does not affect prior sub-licensees. Valve solely owns derivatives it creates and may license them. Cloud storage use grants storage license; Valve may limit storage amount.
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you grant Valve and its affiliates the worldwide, non-exclusive right
for the purpose of the operation
has not cured such breach within fourteen (14) days
Valve is the sole owner of the derivative works
Qualifications & exceptions
Termination only for uncured Valve breach after 14 day notice
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Feedback free for Valve
If you give Valve feedback or suggestions about Steam, Content, Valve products, Hardware or services, Valve may use them however it chooses with no duty to account to you.
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Valve is free to use the feedback or suggestions however it chooses
Content & IP Rights · Context
UGC licensed free despite terms
You agree your uploaded UGC via Valve interfaces gets significant exposure and you share it for enjoyment and recognition from Subscribers. So you grant this license free, despite any contrary App-Specific Terms as defined under Section 6.B below. Section 6.B is in a later packet.
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you grant this license to Valve and its affiliates for free
as defined under Section 6.B below
Qualifications & exceptions
Section 6.B cited but in later packet
Not stated here
Full Section 6.B App-Specific Terms
Content & IP Rights · Context
Workshop section begins
Content Uploaded to the Steam Workshop section begins here. Operative Workshop rules are in the next packet.
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B. Content Uploaded to the Steam Workshop
Qualifications & exceptions
Substance in next packet
Content & IP Rights · Context
Workshop contributions viewable
Certain Workshop-Enabled Apps let you create UGC with the app and submit it as a Workshop Contribution to Workshop pages. Contributions can be viewed by the community, and for some categories users may interact, download or purchase them. In some cases they may be considered for incorporation by Valve or a third-party developer into a game or Marketplace.
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allow you to create User Generated Content
can be viewed by the Steam community
Content & IP Rights · Company commitment
Valve may remove contributions
You agree Valve need not use, distribute or continue distributing any Workshop Contribution and may restrict or remove contributions for any reason, with no duty to do so.
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is not obligated to use, distribute, or continue to distribute
Content & IP Rights · Context
App terms may vary Workshop
Specific Workshop-Enabled Apps or Workshop pages may have special App-Specific Terms that supplement or change this Section to meet that app needs.
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may contain special terms
Content & IP Rights · Context
Workshop items are subscriptions
Workshop Contributions are Subscriptions, so any Subscriber receiving your Contribution has the same use rights and restrictions as for any other Subscriptions under this Agreement.
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Workshop Contributions are Subscriptions
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Limited Valve modification right
Despite Section 6.A license, Valve may only modify including creating derivatives from your Workshop Contribution to make it compatible with Steam and Workshop interface, or where accepted for in-application distribution Valve or the developer may modify as needed to enhance gameplay or ensure app compatibility. Under Section 6.A you grant Valve and affiliates the free right to so modify including derivatives. You get no compensation for such Valve modifications.
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Valve will only have the right to modify
you are not entitled to any compensation
Content & IP Rights · User right or choice
You may remove Workshop item
You may in sole discretion remove a Workshop Contribution from Workshop pages. Valve then loses rights to use, distribute, transmit, communicate, display or perform it, except Valve may continue for Contributions accepted for in-game distribution or usable in-game, and removal does not affect Subscribers who already obtained a copy.
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choose to remove a Workshop Contribution
will not affect the rights of any Subscriber
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
Disclose paid endorsements
If you use Steam services such as Curators Lists or Broadcasting to promote or endorse a product, service or event for any third-party consideration including non-monetary rewards like free games, you must clearly indicate the consideration source to your audience. The C Promotions heading introduces this.
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C. Promotions and Endorsements
you must clearly indicate the source
Content & IP Rights · Company commitment
Warrant UGC rights
You represent and warrant you have sufficient rights in all UGC to grant Valve and affected parties the A and B licenses or app-specific Workshop licenses, including all IP, proprietary or personal rights in the UGC. For Workshop Contributions you warrant it was originally created by you, or by you and other contributors where you may submit on their behalf. The D Representations heading introduces this.
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D. Representations and Warranties
you have sufficient rights in all User Generated Content