No false or harmful content, spam, gambling or malicious code
You agree not to create listings or provide content in inappropriate categories or areas, engage in gambling, provide false, inaccurate, misleading, deceptive, defamatory, illegal, harmful or rights-infringing content, distribute spam, unsolicited or bulk communications, chain letters or pyramid schemes, or distribute viruses or other technologies that may harm eBay or users.
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create listings or provide us with content in inappropriate categories or areas of our sites;
engage in gambling;
provide us with content that is false, inaccurate, misleading, deceptive, defamatory, libelous, illegal, inappropriate, harmful, or violates and/or infringes the rights of others;
distribute or post spam, unsolicited or bulk electronic communications, chain letters, or pyramid schemes;
distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm eBay or the interests or property of users;
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
No infringing intellectual property; exports must comply with export laws
You agree not to infringe eBay's or third parties' Intellectual Property Rights or post content that does not belong to you, including by reproducing, performing, displaying, distributing, copying, reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling or preparing derivative works from content belonging to eBay or someone else. You also agree not to export or re-export any eBay application or tool except in compliance with export control laws and policies.
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export or re-export any eBay application or tool, except in compliance with the export control laws, and rules and policies of any relevant jurisdictions;
infringe the copyright, trademark, patent, publicity, moral, database, and/or other intellectual property rights (collectively, "Intellectual Property Rights") that belong to or are licensed to eBay.
infringe any Intellectual Property Rights that belong to third parties affected by your use of our Services or post content that does not belong to you;
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Sellers are fully responsible for listings, including AI-generated content
When listing, you agree to comply with eBay's Listing policies and Selling practices policy and assume full responsibility for the item and for the accuracy and content of the listing, including content created with tools from eBay or third parties such as translation, image editing and generative AI tools. Your content must comply with all listing policies including the images, videos and text policy, and content that violates policies may be modified, obfuscated or deleted in eBay's sole discretion. eBay may revise listings to supplement, remove or correct information, and metatags and URL links in a listing may be removed or altered.
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When listing an item for sale on our Services, you agree to comply with eBay's Listing policies and Selling practices policy and also agree that:
You assume full responsibility for the item offered and the accuracy and content of the listing, including listing content created using tools offered by eBay or third parties such as translation, image editing, and generative artificial intelligence tools;
The content you provide complies with all of our listing policies, including the Images, videos and text policy;
Content that violates any of eBay's policies may be modified, obfuscated, or deleted at eBay's sole discretion;
We may revise listings to supplement, remove, or correct information;
Metatags and URL links that are included in a listing may be removed or altered;
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Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
eBay may promote your listings, username, reviews and feedback anywhere
eBay may publish and promote your listings, including related content such as username, product reviews and feedback, in any format and through any channel, including across eBay Services, partners or third-party property or advertising media. Selling fees do not buy exclusive exposure, and eBay may display third-party advertisements or other content in any part of its Services, including listings, in its sole discretion and without consent from, or payment, fee reduction or other credit to, sellers.
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eBay may publish and promote your listings, including related content such as username, product reviews and feedback, in any format and through any channel, including across any eBay Services, our partners, or third-party property or advertising medium; and
Selling fees do not purchase exclusive rights to item exposure on our Services. We may display third-party advertisements (including links and references thereto) or other content in any part of our Services, including listings, in our sole discretion and without consent from, or payment, fee reduction, or other credit to, sellers.
You license content to eBay and waive IP enforcement for covered uses
When you provide content using the Services, directly or indirectly, you grant eBay a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right, sublicensable through multiple tiers, to exercise any and all Intellectual Property Rights you have in it in connection with providing, expanding and promoting the Services, including developing new offerings, in any media. To the fullest extent permitted by law you waive your right to enforce your Intellectual Property Rights, including moral rights, in that content against eBay, its assignees and sublicensees and their assignees for that use.
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When you provide content using our Services (directly or indirectly), you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise any and all Intellectual Property Rights you have in that content in connection with our provision, expansion, and promotion of our Services, including development of new offerings as part of our Services, in any media known now or developed in the future.
To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, you waive your right to enforce your Intellectual Property Rights, including any moral rights, in that content against eBay, our assignees, our sublicensees, and their assignees in connection with our, those assignees', and those sublicensees' use of that content in connection with our provision, expansion, and promotion of our Services.
You warrant your content is yours, accurate and lawful
You represent and warrant that for all content you provide you own or control all necessary rights, that it is accurate, appropriate and legal, and that its use, including derivative works, by eBay, its users or others in contract with it, in compliance with the agreement, does not and will not infringe third-party Intellectual Property Rights. eBay takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for content provided by you or any third party.
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You represent and warrant that, for all such content you provide, you own or otherwise control all necessary rights to do so and to meet your obligations under this User Agreement. You represent and warrant that such content is accurate, appropriate, and legal.
eBay takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content provided by you or any third party.
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Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Third-party product data may be used only in your listings
eBay offers product data, including images, descriptions and specifications, provided by third parties including users. You may use it solely in your eBay listings and eBay may modify or revoke the permission at any time in its sole discretion; you agree not to remove copyright or identification markings or create derivative works other than by including the data in your listings. eBay does not promise the content will always be available, accurate, complete or up to date, is not responsible for examining or warranting third-party content, and you agree not to attempt to hold it or its data providers liable for inaccuracies.
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You may use that content solely in your eBay listings. eBay may modify or revoke such permission at any time in our sole discretion.
You agree not to remove any copyright, proprietary, or identification markings in the product data and not to create any derivative works based on that data (other than by including the data in your listings).
We try to offer reliable product data, but we cannot promise that the content provided through our Services will always be available, accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
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Content & IP Rights · Context
eBay’s name, logos and marks may not be used without written permission
The name “eBay” and other eBay marks, logos, designs and phrases are trademarks, service marks or trade dress of eBay in the U.S. and other countries and may not be used without express written prior permission.
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The name "eBay" and other eBay marks, logos, designs, and phrases that we use in connection with our Services are trademarks, service marks, or trade dress of eBay in the U.S. and other countries. They may not be used without the express written prior permission of eBay.
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
Copyright and IP complaints go to eBay’s VeRO program and DMCA process
eBay says it responds to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Its Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) program works to ensure items and content do not infringe copyright, trademark or certain other rights of third parties, and if you believe your rights are infringed you can notify the VeRO team.
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We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act. eBay's Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) program works to ensure that items and content using our Services do not infringe upon the copyright, trademark, or certain other intellectual property rights of third parties.