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Irrevocable

Definition: A clause specifying that a license grant can never be revoked or withdrawn by the party who gave it, no matter how they later feel about it — typically stacked with “perpetual,” “royalty-free,” and “sublicensable” to make a license as permanent and broad as possible. Risk level: High when a platform claims it over user Content or feedback: it means a user’s later attempts to restrict reuse — beyond simply deleting the content from the service — have no legal effect. Paired with “perpetual,” it shuts the door on any future change of mind.

Platforms Using This Clause

Common Wording

you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content… — Reddit, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout) — the broadest single-sentence Content license grant in the wiki, with “irrevocable” stacked alongside four other maximal qualifiers — see Royalty-Free.

the receiving party will have a royalty-free, worldwide, sublicenseable, transferable, non-exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use Feedback. — LinkedIn, Other (Developer Agreement, Feedback), 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout) — not a Content-license clause: covers unsolicited developer feedback/suggestions, permanently and irrevocably reusable by LinkedIn.

You hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sublicensable, transferable, royalty free, fully paid up license to use Your Content for any purpose in connection with our or our affiliates’ products and services… You waive any moral, neighboring, or similar rights you may have in Your Content, including the uses described in the immediately preceding sentence. — Moltbook, Terms of Service, 2026-03-18 — a maximal grant matching Reddit’s breadth (“for any purpose,” explicitly construed broadly), additionally paired with an explicit moral-rights waiver in the same clause, and separately repeated for “Your Data” (see Derivative Works).

The right for Quora to copy, display, transmit, publish, perform, distribute, store, modify, and otherwise use any question you post, and sublicense those rights to others, is perpetual and irrevocable, to the maximum extent permitted by law, except as otherwise specified in this Agreement. — Quora, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout) — narrower in subject-matter than Reddit’s/Moltbook’s all-Content grants: “perpetual and irrevocable” here is scoped specifically to questions a user posts, in a separate sentence from Quora’s broader main Content license.

Because Public Content is inherently public, you grant Snap, our affiliates, other users of the Services, and our business partners an unrestricted, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable and perpetual right and licence to create derivative works from, promote, exhibit, broadcast, syndicate, reproduce, distribute, synchronise, overlay graphics and auditory effects on, publicly perform and publicly display all or any portion of your Public Content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods, now known or later developed, for commercial and non-commercial purposes. — Snapchat, Terms of Service, 2024-03-07 (genuine strengthening confirmed via direct diff against the 2023-08-09 baseline, which read only “worldwide, royalty-free, and irrevocable” with no “perpetual”/“unrestricted” qualifiers and included a sentence capping the license’s duration after content deletion, since removed) — “irrevocable” paired with newly-added “perpetual” and “unrestricted,” extended to other users and business partners, with the prior deletion-tied expiry removed entirely.

Accordingly, you hereby grant to Spotify a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, fully paid, irrevocable, worldwide license to reproduce, make available, perform and display, translate, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, and otherwise use any such User Content… Where applicable… you also agree to waive, and not to enforce, any “moral rights” or equivalent rights… — Spotify, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout 12 scrapes) — “irrevocable” stacked alongside four other maximal qualifiers in one sentence, immediately followed by an explicit moral-rights waiver — the same pairing seen on Moltbook’s Terms of Service.

…you automatically grant… an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, archive, store, cache, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, transmit, excerpt…, and distribute such Contributions… — TruthSocial, Terms of Service, 2024-03-14 (present in substance throughout 14 scrapes) — “irrevocable” stacked alongside “unrestricted, unlimited… perpetual” and more than a dozen usage verbs including “sell, resell” — the broadest single-sentence grant in this wiki by qualifier count.

Note also that other Users may use your Custom Themes after you have removed them from distribution, and you hereby grant those Users an irrevocable license to use those Custom Themes as contributed by you. — Tumblr, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout 14 scrapes) — a structurally unique pattern in this wiki: “irrevocable” describes a grant running creator-to-user, not user-to-platform — once other Users adopt a Custom Theme, the creator cannot revoke their access even after withdrawing the Theme from distribution.

…you grant Twitch and its sub-licensees… an unrestricted, worldwide, irrevocable, fully sub-licenseable, nonexclusive, and royalty-free right… [2025-04-10:] …you grant each other Twitch user… a worldwide, irrevocable, fully sub-licenseable, nonexclusive, and royalty-free license… — Twitch, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (baseline grant to Twitch; genuinely extended 2025-04-10 to add an identical irrevocable license running to other Twitch users) — see Royalty-Free for the full strengthening analysis.

Notes & Trends

Reddit’s Terms of Service is the first confirmed occurrence of “irrevocable” in this wiki, stacked into the single broadest Content-license sentence found anywhere in the dataset. LinkedIn’s “Other” page shows a structurally different use: not a Content license at all, but a permanent grant over developer feedback — the same subject-matter distinction noted on Royalty-Free and Transferable. Moltbook’s Terms of Service is the most extreme occurrence yet: it pairs “irrevocable” with an explicit “for any purpose” qualifier and a moral-rights waiver in the same sentence, matching Reddit’s breadth plus the moral-rights element. It then repeats the identical maximal license a second time for “Your Data” rather than just Content — the first platform in this wiki to apply the same irrevocable/perpetual/sublicensable license to both Content and Data as two separately-granted, equally broad rights. Quora’s Terms of Service is narrower than either: “perpetual and irrevocable” is tied specifically to posted questions, not the platform’s broader Content license, suggesting Quora treats questions as a special, more locked-in category distinct from answers and other Content. Snapchat’s Terms of Service shows the clearest confirmed strengthening over time under this keyword. At baseline (2022-07-11), “irrevocable” was paired only with “worldwide, royalty-free,” and a sentence capped how long the license lasted after content deletion — but the 2024-03-07 rewrite adds “perpetual” and “unrestricted” and deletes that expiry sentence entirely, confirmed via direct diff against the prior capture. Spotify’s Terms of Service adds a clean baseline occurrence matching Moltbook’s pattern of pairing “irrevocable” directly with a moral-rights waiver in the same sentence, though without Moltbook’s second Data-specific repetition. TruthSocial’s Terms of Service sets a new high-water mark for breadth under this keyword: more qualifiers stacked into one sentence than any other platform tracked here, and the only platform whose grant explicitly includes a “sell, resell” right over user Contributions. Tumblr’s Terms of Service breaks the user-to-platform pattern entirely: its “irrevocable” grant runs from a Custom Theme creator to the Users who adopted that Theme — the first creator-to-user (rather than user-to-platform or platform-to-user) occurrence of this keyword in the wiki. Twitch’s Terms of Service shows a confirmed strengthening via diff: the original “irrevocable” grant to Twitch was joined in 2025-04-10 by a second, near-identical irrevocable license running to other Twitch users — the same expansion documented under Royalty-Free.