Roku TV Terms of Use

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

The Roku TV OS stays with the TV it was installed on and cannot be sold or transferred alone

Two statements tie the software to one device: the Roku TV OS may be used only with the TV on which it was originally installed, and the list of prohibited acts includes selling or transferring the Roku TV OS apart from the TV. Together they rule out moving the operating system to another set or passing it on separately when the television changes hands.

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The Roku TV OS may be used only with the TV on which it was originally installed.

sell or transfer the Roku TV OS apart from the TV; or

Qualifications & exceptions

• may be used only with the TV on which it was originally installed
• sell or transfer the Roku TV OS apart from the TV

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Some software follows separate licence terms that govern its own permissions

A carve-out runs through the licence: some software is subject to separate license terms, and the right to access and use it may be governed by the terms applicable to separately licensed code. The same idea reappears in the copying prohibition, which yields to whatever those separate licences permit. The linked separately-licensed-code list is not supplied here, so this text does not say which components are outside the standard licence or what those licences allow.

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Some software is subject to separate license terms and the right to access and use that software may be governed by the terms applicable to separately licensed code.

(except as may be permitted by the terms governing any separately licensed code)

Qualifications & exceptions

• Some software is subject to separate license terms
• except as may be permitted by the terms governing any separately licensed code

Not stated here

• Which components are separately licensed and what their licences permit; the referenced page is not part of this source.

Cross-references

• exception to (model-proposed): You may not copy, modify, adapt, distribute or translate the TV OS or build derivative works from it — The separate-licence carve-out is precisely what widens the copying prohibition: acts otherwise barred are permitted to the extent the separately licensed code terms allow them.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You may not copy, modify, adapt, distribute or translate the TV OS or build derivative works from it

The prohibited-acts list opens by barring copying, modifying, adapting, distributing, translating and creating derivative works of the Roku TV OS. The single stated exception is whatever the terms governing separately licensed code permit, so standard copyright-style activities have no permission unless that other licence grants one.

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copy, modify, adapt, distribute, translate, or create derivative works of the Roku TV OS (except as may be permitted by the terms governing any separately licensed code)

Qualifications & exceptions

• except as may be permitted by the terms governing any separately licensed code

Cross-references

• has exception (model-proposed): Some software follows separate licence terms that govern its own permissions — The separate-licence carve-out is precisely what widens the copying prohibition: acts otherwise barred are permitted to the extent the separately licensed code terms allow them.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Reverse engineering is barred except a narrow interoperability allowance

You may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise try to derive the Roku TV OS source code. An exception survives only where prohibition is impossible under applicable law, and then only when three limits are met together: it is essential to achieve interoperability with other software, it is done only to achieve that interoperability, and the result is not disclosed or used to create any similar software. The exception is therefore an interoperability allowance, not a general permission to inspect the code.

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decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise try to derive the Roku TV OS source code (except to the extent such actions cannot be prohibited under applicable law and then, only if it is essential to achieve inter-operability with other software, is done only to achieve such inter-operability, and is not disclosed or used to create any similar software)

Qualifications & exceptions

• except to the extent such actions cannot be prohibited under applicable law
• only if it is essential to achieve inter-operability with other software
• is done only to achieve such inter-operability
• is not disclosed or used to create any similar software

Not stated here

• Which jurisdictions' law would make the prohibition unenforceable; the clause refers to applicable law without naming it.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Content copying and redistribution are prohibited and DRM protections may not be circumvented

The restrictions section states that copying or redistribution of certain content is strictly prohibited, and that digital rights management or other technologies may be used to prevent or restrict copying or redistribution of content, which the user agrees not to try to circumvent or avoid. The obligation is therefore a promise not to work around whatever technology protects the content; which content is protected, and which technology, is not enumerated here.

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Copying or redistribution of certain content is strictly prohibited, and digital rights management or other technologies may be used to prevent or restrict any copying or re-distributing of any content, which you agree not to try to circumvent or avoid.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Copying or redistribution of certain content is strictly prohibited
• which you agree not to try to circumvent or avoid

Not stated here

• Which content is covered and which technologies are used; the paragraph speaks generally.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Roku keeps ownership of the software and reserves every right it has not expressly granted

Software on the TV is proprietary to Roku or its licensors and protected by copyright, trademark and other laws of the United States and other countries. Any right not expressly granted in these terms is reserved by Roku and its applicable licensors, and users may not remove, alter or obscure copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary notices incorporated in or accompanying the TV or any content delivered through it. The reservation means the licence is only what the document says it is, and the notice rule extends to content from third parties shown on the TV.

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Roku's software is proprietary to Roku (or its licensors) and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States and other countries.

Any rights not expressly granted to you in these terms are reserved by Roku and its applicable licensors.

You may not remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying your TV or from any content provided via your TV.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Any rights not expressly granted to you in these terms are reserved by Roku and its applicable licensors
• protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States and other countries
• or from any content provided via your TV