Retention & Deletion · User right or choice
Live and recorded video rights end after deletion or closing, with exceptions
For live and pre-recorded audio-visual works, the rights you grant terminate a commercially reasonable amount of time after you delete the User Content from the services, or generally by closing your account. Exceptions are to the extent you shared it with others on the services and they copied or stored portions, for example made a Clip; to the extent others accessed, used or shared it outside the services under the Section 8(a) license; to the extent Twitch used it for promotional purposes; for the reasonable time it takes to remove it from backup and other systems; or to the extent Twitch is required by applicable law to retain it.
Supporting quotations
With respect to streaming live and pre-recorded audio-visual works, the rights granted by you hereunder will terminate a commercially reasonable amount of time after you delete such User Content from the Twitch Services, or generally by closing your account, except:
(a) to the extent you shared it with others as part of the Twitch Services and others copied or stored portions of the User Content (e.g., made a Clip); (b) to the extent others accessed, used, and/or shared your User Content outside the Twitch Services pursuant to the license granted in Section 8(a) above, (c) to the extent Twitch used it for promotional purposes; (d) for the reasonable time it takes to remove from backup and other systems; or (e) to the extent Twitch is required by applicable law to retain it.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Applies to streaming live and pre-recorded audio-visual works; exceptions cover clips, off-platform sharing, promotional use, backups and legal retention.
data: content · data: video · data: audio
Cross-references
- qualifies (model-proposed): You grant Twitch a worldwide, irrevocable, sublicensable license to your content — License to Twitch described as irrevocable.