User content encompasses all items added to the services: text, links, emojis, GIFs, audio, photos, videos, and uploaded media.
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When we say “your content” in these terms, we mean all the things you add (upload, post, share, stream, etc.) to our services. This includes text, links, GIFs, emoji, photos, videos, documents, or other media.
Qualifications & exceptions
Includes text, media, and uploaded attachments
data: user_content · purpose: service_operation
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Your content license is limited to service purposes
You retain content rights while granting a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license. The license is limited to providing, developing and improving Discord’s services as law permits; this clause does not separately authorize unrestricted promotion.
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Your content is yours, but you give us a license (which is a form of permission) to it when you use Discord. Your content may be protected by certain intellectual property rights. We don’t own those. But by using our services, you grant us a license to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, display, and perform your content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of providing, developing, and improving our services as permitted by applicable laws. This license is worldwide, non-exclusive (which means you can still license your content to others), royalty-free (which means there are no fees for this license), sublicensable, and transferable.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Discord can remove content for violations or risk
Discord may block, remove or permanently delete content for violations of rules or law, risks to Discord or negative effects on other users’ experience or interests.
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We reserve the right to block, remove, and/or permanently delete your content if we determine it is in breach of these terms, our [Community Guidelines](https://discord.com/guidelines), our other policies, or any applicable law or regulation, or if it creates risk for Discord or negatively impacts the experience or interests of other Discord users to continue to make it available.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Client software has a limited personal license
While you comply with the terms, you receive a worldwide, personal, nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonsublicensable and nonassignable license to download and run the software solely to access Discord.
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License to our software. Some of our services allow you to download client software. So long as you comply with these terms, we grant you a worldwide, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and non-assignable license to download, install, and run that software, solely to access our services.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Software restrictions have consent and legal exceptions
Copying, modification, distribution, sale, leasing and sublicensing are restricted. Reverse engineering or decompilation is prohibited unless Discord gives written consent or law permits it.
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You may not copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, distribute, sell, lease, or sublicense any of our software or services. You also may not reverse engineer or decompile our software or services, attempt to do so, or assist anyone in doing so, unless you have our written consent or applicable law permits it.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You need rights to lawful submissions
You need not submit content, but any submission must be lawful and you must hold rights for it and the required license. Discord disclaims responsibility for your content and others’ use of it.
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ensuring that you have the right to do so
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Feedback grants an enduring license
Feedback grants a perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, nonexclusive license without restrictions, attribution or compensation.
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without any restrictions, attribution, or compensation
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Other users’ content and Discord branding have use limits
Others’ content requires their consent or legal permission; Discord does not endorse or verify it and may review reports at its discretion. Discord retains its own IP, with branding use governed by guidelines or written permission.
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without that person’s consent, or as allowed by law
our prior written permission
Content & IP Rights · Context
Open-source licenses can override these terms
Some software has separate open-source license requirements, which may expressly override the general terms.