Could Be Worse Clauses For User Generated Content Submissions

You hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.

If you post something on YouTube, you retain the copyright in your work, and therefore can licence rights to other people. But YouTube has the worldwide right to use it, including to copy it, change it, distribute it, and to allow others to do all those things, without obtaining your specific approval or paying you.

You retain ownership to the Video Content You submit for inclusion into the Yahoo! Video Service. However, by submitting Your Video Content to Yahoo!, You hereby grant Yahoo! the following worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable and transferable rights and licenses:

a. to host, cache, store, archive, index, crawl, create algorithms based thereon, modify or transcode the Video Content to appropriate media formats, standards or mediums as part of the Yahoo! Video Service;

b. to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, remix, excerpt, adapt, prepare derivative works of, publicly perform and publicly display the Video Content on the Yahoo! Video Service or on any Yahoo! property, including in connection with any distribution or syndication arrangement thereof with third parties or third party sites, in any media format or medium and through any media channels; and

c. to use Your Video Content for advertising, promotional or commercial purposes, including without limitation, the right to publicly display, perform, reproduce and distribute Your Video Content in any media format or medium and through any media channels.

By submitting Your Video Content for inclusion into the Yahoo! Video Service, you also grant the following use of and rights to Your Video Content to others: (i) the non-exclusive license to access Your Video Content through the Yahoo! Video Service; (ii) the ability for Yahoo! registered users ('Yahoo! Users') to rate, review, comment on and tag Your Video Content; (iii) the ability to embed Yahoo!'s video player with Your Video Content on their web site; (iv) the ability for Yahoo! Users to send and distribute Your Video Content via E-mail or Instant Messenger; (v) the ability to access Your Video Content via Yahoo!'s web service APIs or via RSS or any similar XML or related feeds; and (vi) the non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, distribute, remix, prepare derivative works of and compilations, display and perform Your Video Content as permitted through the functionality of the Yahoo! Video Service and under these Additional Terms and the TOS.

The foregoing licenses granted by You shall terminate once You remove or delete Your Video Content from the Yahoo! Video Service.

This is the Terms of Service Agreement from Yahoo! Video Service which allows users to upload user-generated content to the Yahoo! site. Much like in the agreement for Flickr (also owned by Yahoo! and posted on this site as well), the user retains copyrights in the work and allows Yahoo! a free right to use it - and transfer it or license it to others - for the duration that the material is posted on the site.