Intellectual Property Policy

Account & Service Control · Company practice

Accounts of repeat copyright infringers may be banned, and severe cases immediately

TikTok says it has adopted and reasonably implemented a repeat infringer policy under which, in appropriate circumstances, it bans the account of a user who repeatedly commits copyright infringement. It may use its discretion to ban an account immediately in cases of severe copyright violations.

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under which we, in appropriate circumstances, ban the account of a user who repeatedly commits copyright infringement.

We may exercise our discretion to immediately ban any account in cases of severe copyright violations.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Bans for repeat infringement apply "in appropriate circumstances", not automatically.
• Immediate bans are tied to "severe" violations and TikTok's discretion.

Not stated here

• The passage does not define "repeatedly", "appropriate circumstances" or "severe", and does not give a number of infringements.

Account & Service Control · Company practice

TikTok reserves the right to refuse a new account to a holder whose account was used for improper activities

TikTok reserves the right to refuse an account holder whose account was used for improper activities from opening a new TikTok account. The sentence sits in the copyright removal and bans subsection, but its wording refers to "improper activities" rather than naming copyright infringement.

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We reserve the right to refuse any account holder whose account was used for improper activities from opening a new TikTok account.

Qualifications & exceptions

• It is a reserved right ("reserve the right to refuse"), not a statement that every such holder is refused.
• Scope is account holders whose account "was used for improper activities".

Not stated here

• "Improper activities" is not defined in this passage, so it is unclear whether it is limited to copyright infringement.

Account & Service Control · Company practice

Accounts of repeat trademark infringers may be banned, and severe cases immediately

TikTok says it has adopted and reasonably implemented a repeat infringer policy under which, in appropriate circumstances, it bans the account of a user who repeatedly commits trademark infringement. It may use its discretion to ban an account immediately in cases of severe trademark violations.

Supporting quotations

under which we, in appropriate circumstances, ban the account of a user who repeatedly commits trademark infringement.

We may exercise our discretion to immediately ban any account in cases of severe trademark violations.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Bans for repeat infringement apply "in appropriate circumstances", not automatically.
• Immediate bans are tied to "severe" violations and TikTok's discretion.

Not stated here

• The passage does not define "repeatedly", "appropriate circumstances" or "severe", and does not give a number of infringements.

Account & Service Control · Company practice

TikTok reserves the right to refuse a new account to a holder whose account was used for improper activities

TikTok reserves the right to refuse an account holder whose account was used for improper activities from opening a new TikTok account. The sentence sits in the trademark removal and bans subsection, but its wording refers to "improper activities" rather than naming trademark infringement.

Supporting quotations

We reserve the right to refuse any account holder whose account was used for improper activities from opening a new TikTok account.

Qualifications & exceptions

• It is a reserved right, not a statement that every such holder is refused.
• Scope is account holders whose account "was used for improper activities".

Not stated here

• "Improper activities" is not defined in this passage, so it is unclear whether it is limited to trademark infringement.