The Roku Channel Terms of Use

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Channel content is provided for personal, non-commercial use only

Roku states that the content it provides access to on The Roku Channel is intended for the user's personal, non-commercial use only.

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Roku provides access to content on The Roku Channel that is intended for your personal, non-commercial use only.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The limit is described as how the content is intended, and covers personal, non-commercial use.
• The terms do not state separately what happens if content is used commercially.

Content & IP Rights · Company practice

Roku may add, update or remove content and providers, possibly without notice

Roku may update, add or remove content and/or content providers from time to time, and the document acknowledges this may happen possibly without notice to the user.

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We may update, add, or remove content, and/or content providers from time to time (possibly without notice to you).

Qualifications & exceptions

• Changes may occur "possibly without notice to you"; notice is not promised.
• Removal is described as affecting content and/or content providers, not necessarily the user's account.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Copying or redistributing content is prohibited and you agree not to defeat the protections

Copying or redistribution of certain content is described as strictly prohibited, and the document says digital rights management or other technologies may be used to prevent or restrict copying or re-distributing of any content. The user agrees not to try to circumvent or avoid those technologies.

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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

• The prohibition is stated for "certain content" while the protection technologies are described as applying to "any content".
• The user's undertaking is not to try to circumvent or avoid those protections.

Not stated here

• The terms do not identify which content is covered by the copying and redistribution prohibition.

Content & IP Rights · Procedure

Copyright and illegal-content complaints go through a content takedown notice

A person who believes in good faith that content appearing on Roku's website or through its products and services infringes their copyright or other proprietary rights, or contains prohibited or illegal content, is told to send a content takedown notice using the linked DMCA page.

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If you believe in good faith that certain content appearing on our website or through our products and services infringes upon your copyright, other proprietary rights, or contains prohibited or illegal content, send us a content takedown notice.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The route requires a good-faith belief about infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights, or about prohibited or illegal content.
• It covers content appearing on the website or through Roku's products and services, which is broader than The Roku Channel alone.
• The linked takedown page is separate and not supplied here, so the notice contents and Roku's response process are unknown from these terms.

Not stated here

• This document does not state what the takedown notice must contain, how Roku handles it, or any counter-notice process.
• The linked content takedown document is not part of this source; anything it says about notice contents, handling or counter-notice is unknown here.

Content & IP Rights · Company practice

Roku, partners and content providers may show advertising on The Roku Channel

Roku and/or its partners and content providers may display advertising and promotional messages on The Roku Channel.

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Roku (and/or its partners and content providers) may display advertising and promotional messages on The Roku Channel.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Advertising may come from Roku, its partners or its content providers, not only Roku.
• The terms do not describe how much advertising appears, whether it can be avoided, or what it is based on.

Not stated here

• Nothing in this document says whether advertising is targeted using user data; the linked Privacy Policy is not supplied.

Content & IP Rights · Company practice

The Roku Channel is Roku's proprietary service and ungranted rights stay reserved

The document states The Roku Channel is proprietary to Roku and/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 the user in these terms are reserved by Roku or its applicable licensors.

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The Roku Channel is proprietary to Roku (and/or its licensors) and 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 (or its applicable licensors).

Qualifications & exceptions

• Protection is claimed under the copyright, trademark and other laws of the United States and other countries.
• The reservation covers only rights not expressly granted in these terms, so any express grant elsewhere in the document governs that grant.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You may not remove or obscure copyright and trademark notices

Users may not remove, alter or obscure copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices that are incorporated in or accompany The Roku Channel or any content provided through it.

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

Qualifications & exceptions

• The prohibition covers removing, altering and obscuring.
• It reaches notices incorporated in or accompanying The Roku Channel and any content provided via The Roku Channel.