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Content & IP Rights · Company commitment
Users retain whatever underlying intellectual property ownership rights they held in content created, uploaded, posted, or stored on the Services.
When you do that, you retain whatever ownership rights in that content you had to begin with.
data: user_content · purpose: intellectual_property_protection
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Snap and affiliates receive a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable content license covering associated names, images, likenesses and voices. Purposes include operating, promoting and improving services and researching new ones. Contracted providers may receive rights solely to provide and improve services.
For all content you create using the Services, or submit or make available to the Services (including Public Content), you grant Snap and our affiliates a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, cache, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, analyze, transmit, and distribute that content, including the name, image, likeness, or voice of anyone featured in it. This license is for the purpose of operating, developing, providing, promoting, and improving the Services and researching and developing new ones. This license includes a right for us to make your content available to, and pass these rights along to, service providers with whom we have contractual relationships related to the provision of the Services, solely for the purpose of providing and improving such Services.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Public Stories, Profiles, Spotlight, Snap Map and Lens Studio content grants Snap, affiliates, other users and business partners worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual rights for commercial and noncommercial use across media, without compensation. It includes featured names, images, voices and music. Public content must be suitable for ages 13 and up.
We call Public Story submissions and any other content you submit to public Services, like Public Profiles, Spotlight, Snap Map, or Lens Studio, “Public Content.” Because Public Content is inherently public, you grant Snap, our affiliates, other users of the Services, and our business partners an unrestricted, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, and perpetual right and license to create derivative works from, promote, exhibit, broadcast, syndicate, reproduce, distribute, synchronize, overlay graphics and auditory effects on, publicly perform, and publicly display all or any portion of your Public Content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods, now known or later developed, for commercial and non-commercial purposes. This license applies to the separate video, image, sound recording, or musical compositions contained in your Public Content, as well as the name, image, likeness, and voice of anyone featured in Public Content that you create, upload, post, send, or appear in (including as reflected in your Bitmoji). This means, among other things, that you will not be entitled to any compensation if your content, including videos, photos, sound recordings, musical compositions, name, image, likeness, or voice included in your content are used by us, our affiliates, users of the Services, or our business partners. For information about how to tailor who can watch your content, please take a look at our [Privacy Policy](https://values.snap.com/privacy/privacy-policy?lang=en-US) and [Support Site](https://help.snapchat.com/?lang=en-US). All Public Content must be appropriate for people ages 13+.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Snap may review, screen, access, or delete user content at any time for any reason without liability to the user.
While we’re not required to do so, we may access, review, screen, and delete your content at any time and for any reason, including to provide and develop the Services or if we think your content violates these Terms or any applicable laws, and we will not be liable to you for any such actions taken. You alone, though, remain responsible for the content you create, upload, post, send, or store through the Services.
data: user_content · purpose: content_moderation · purpose: security
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Snap may utilize user suggestions and feedback without compensation or restriction, and owns all rights developed based on such feedback.
We always love to hear from our users. But if you provide feedback or suggestions, just know that we can use them without compensating you, and without any restriction or obligation to you. You agree that we will own all rights in anything we develop based on such feedback or suggestions.
purpose: service_operation
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
All AI text, image, and audio inputs and generated outputs are treated as user-submitted content subject to Snap's worldwide license and Privacy Policy.
Our Services include AI-enabled features (“AI Features”) that use inputs like text, images, audio files, videos, documents, data, or other content provided by you or used at your direction (“Inputs”) to generate content and responses based on those Inputs (“Outputs”). All Inputs and Outputs will be treated for the purpose of these Terms as content you submit to the Services and accordingly any rights and licenses granted to us and obligations on you in respect of content submitted or made available by you in these Terms applies to Inputs and Outputs, including the licenses set out in “Rights You Grant Us” above. We collect, use, disclose, and retain Inputs and Outputs in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
data: user_content · purpose: service_operation
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Reverse engineering, decompilation and source-code extraction require written permission unless an open-source license or applicable law supplies an exception or limitation.
reverse engineer, make unauthorized copies or derivative works of, decompile, disassemble, modify or decode the Services (including any underlying idea, technology, or algorithm) or any content included therein, or otherwise extract the source code of the software of the Services, without our written permission, except to the extent an exception or limitation applies under an open source license or applicable laws;
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Users warrant that they hold all required authorizations, mechanical reproduction rights, and synchronization licenses for music and media included in content.
When you submit content to the Services, you agree and represent that you own that content, or that you have received all necessary permissions, clearances, licenses, and authorizations in order to submit it to the Services (including, if applicable, the right to make mechanical reproductions of the musical works embodied in any sound recordings, synchronize any compositions to any content, publicly perform any compositions or sound recordings, or any other applicable rights for any music not provided by Snap that you include in your content) and grant the rights and licenses contained in these Terms for your content. You also agree that you will not use or attempt to use another user’s account except as permitted by Snap or its affiliates.
data: user_content · purpose: legal_compliance
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
Copyright owners can use Snap’s reporting tool or designated agent at 3000 31st Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405, copyright@snap.com. Notices need the specified signature, work/location, contact, good-faith and accuracy statements. Snap takes reasonable steps to suspend or terminate known repeat infringers.
take reasonable steps within our power to suspend or terminate
must comply with the requirements
physical or electronic signature
information reasonably sufficient to let us locate the material
good-faith belief
under penalty of perjury
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Reusing service content is restricted except browser caching, express permission or intended service functionality. Branding follows the named guidelines; third-party apps that interact with the service require written consent.
as enabled by the Service’s intended functionality
except as explicitly allowed
without our written consent