Intellectual Property

Clause 7

Unless otherwise explicitly stated to the contrary, Social Comment owns and controls all intellectual property and proprietary information contained in, including but not limited to, texts, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, sounds and music (if any), artwork, computer code or softwares, content, materials, logos, trademarks, service marks and any other information on the Platform. Nothing in these Terms grants you any right, title or interest over any intellectual property or proprietary information of Social Comment or other users of the Platform.

You shall retain interest in, and ownership of, any of your rights to any User Content you submit, post or display on or through the Platform.

By using the platform, you hereby grant Social Comment a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid up, transferable and sublicensable license to use, view, monetize, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, publicly perform, display and otherwise commercialize your intellectual property that you post on the Platform, in any media format along with you name, username or any other name associated with your content.
Explanation: Social Comment needs this license to effectively provide its services on the Platform. Since you own the rights associated with your content, we need this licence to display your content on the Platform in different forms, arrangements and modifications. The license is also needed to disseminate your content within the Platform. For instance, when you post your content on the Platform, the content is made available in its post page, in user feeds, emails/newsletters etc. The content may be shared either in full and/or with modifications, such as in the form of snippets in user feeds and emails/newsletters with proper attribution. Please note that these are only examples and they cannot be used to limit the scope of the license in this sub-clause.