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Transferable

Definition: Whether a license can be handed off to another party. In this wiki it usually appears as “non-transferable”, restricting the license a platform grants developers over its API or content — and occasionally as “transferable”, where the platform grants itself that right over content or data it collects. Risk level: Low risk when it restricts developers — it just stops API access from being resold or passed around. Higher risk when the platform grants itself a transferable license over your content or data: combined with “sublicensable” and “royalty-free,” it means the platform can hand usage rights to other companies without asking you again.

Platforms Using This Clause

Common Wording

Twitter hereby grants you and you accept a non-exclusive, royalty free, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license solely to: 1. Use the Twitter API to integrate Twitter Content into your Services… — Twitter, Other (Developer Agreement, License from Twitter), 2022-07-11 — restricts the license granted to developers; the direct historical predecessor of X’s near-identical clause.

X gives developers a narrow, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to use X Content via the API… — X, Other (Developer Agreement), 2024-02-21 — same narrow, non-transferable grant Twitter held since at least 2022.

You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to: host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of any information, data, and other content made available by you or on your behalf… in connection with Platform… for any business purpose in connection with operating, providing, or improving Platform or any other Meta Product. This license remains in effect even if you stop using Platform. — Facebook, Other (Platform Terms, “Your License to Us”), 2022-07-11 — the opposite direction from Twitter/X’s usage: here Meta grants itself a transferable (and sublicensable, royalty-free) license over data developers route through its Platform, surviving even after the developer stops using Platform.

we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable (except to Service Providers as described below), non-transferable, non-assignable license to use, access, and integrate with Platform… — Facebook, Other (Platform Terms, “Our License to You”), 2022-07-11 — Meta’s own developer-facing grant is non-transferable, mirroring Twitter/X’s restriction in the reciprocal direction.

…you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content… This license is only for the purpose of making our Products available to you. You can end this license any time by deleting your content or account. — Facebook, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout) — the consumer-facing counterpart to Facebook’s “Other” page grant: Meta takes a transferable license over user Content here (not just App-routed developer data), but unlike X’s Terms of Service it is purpose-limited and user-terminable at will.

…you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content… for purposes of making the Instagram Service available… This license will end when your content is deleted from our systems. — Instagram, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout) — the same purpose-limited, user-terminable pattern as Facebook’s Terms of Service, independently worded rather than copy-pasted.

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 platform-claims-it-for-itself direction taken further than any Meta property: “transferable” here is paired with “perpetual” and “irrevocable,” with no explicit user-termination right (only deletion of the specific content).

To the extent any moral rights are not transferable or assignable, you hereby waive and agree never to assert any and all moral rights… — TikTok, Other (Creator Rewards Program Terms), 2025-10-29 (present in substance throughout) — a usage distinct from every other platform tracked here: “transferable” is not a license-grant qualifier at all, but the trigger condition for a moral-rights waiver — see Assignable for the parallel finding.

By creating, posting or otherwise making content available on the Platform, you grant to TikTok a: * non-exclusive… * royalty-free… * transferable (which means that we can give the rights you give us to someone else)… licence to use your content… — TikTok, Terms of Service, 2023-01-11 (rewritten 2025-06-25 to expand the grantee to “TikTok and our Affiliates” and add a separate user-to-user license — see Royalty-Free) — back to the platform-claims-it-for-itself direction, here over general consumer Content rather than a narrow creator-monetization grant like TikTok’s own “Other” page.

LINE grants Users a non-transferable, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive license to use the Subject Contents provided by LINE, solely for the purpose of using the Services. — LINE, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (wording updated 2023-10-02 and 2024-02-16) — the platform-restricts-developer/user direction, restricting the license LINE grants to users over LINE-provided content; the mirror image of LINE’s own “Submitted Contents” clause (see Royalty-Free), which does not use “transferable” itself but is functionally the platform-claims-it-for-itself counterpart.

we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable (except to independent contractors…), non-transferable, non-assignable license under LinkedIn’s intellectual property rights… — LinkedIn, Other (Developer Agreement, API License), 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout) — the conventional platform-restricts-developer direction, same as Twitter’s/X’s “Other” pages.

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) — the opposite direction in the same document: LinkedIn claims a transferable right for itself, but over developer feedback, not Content or App data — a third distinct subject-matter for the platform-claims-it-for-itself pattern, alongside Facebook’s App data and the various platforms’ user Content.

LinkedIn hereby grants Customer a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to use, distribute, and display the Insights Reports for Customer’s non-commercial activity. — LinkedIn, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (confirmed present through 2023-08-08; absent from the document by 2023-10-15, confirmed via raw cross-check — see that platform page’s Overview) — the restriction direction, B2B: LinkedIn restricts its business Customers from transferring the license over generated Insights Reports.

A worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish and process, information and content that you provide through our Services and the services of others, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others. — LinkedIn, Terms of Service, 2023-10-15 (present in substance through 2025-11-04, replacing the B2B clause above) — the platform-claims-it-for-itself direction takes over from 2023-10-15 onward: LinkedIn’s consumer Content license, applicable to every Member.

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… — Moltbook, Terms of Service, 2026-03-18 — the platform-claims-it-for-itself direction, matching Reddit’s breadth; the identical license is separately repeated for “Your Data,” making Moltbook the only platform in this wiki to grant the same transferable license twice over two distinct subject-matters in one document.

You grant Pinterest and our users a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, store, display, reproduce, save, modify, create derivative works, perform, and distribute your User Content on Pinterest solely for the purposes of operating, developing, providing, and using Pinterest. — Pinterest, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout) — the platform-claims-it-for-itself direction, extended directly to “our users” — the earliest confirmed user-to-user grant under this keyword in this wiki’s dataset, predating TikTok’s 2025-06-25 rewrite.

you grant Quora and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), license to use, copy, reproduce… Your Content… This license also includes the right for other users of the Quora Platform to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, display, and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public Your Content. — Quora, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout) — the platform-claims-it-for-itself direction, matching Pinterest’s same baseline date for the user-to-user variant of this keyword.

…estimated payment amounts or amounts shown in the Snapchat application are not intended to confer or imply any rights or represent any obligations, do not constitute property or rights to property, are not transferable or assignable, and may not be the subject of a sale, barter, or exchange. — Snapchat, Other (Creator Monetization Terms), 2025-11-02 (present unchanged through 2026-03-09) — a fourth, defensive structural context: “transferable” appears not in a Content-license or software-EULA clause but in a financial disclaimer, denying that in-app payment estimates or “Crystals” constitute owed, transferable property before an actual payment is disbursed.

Rights you grant us… For all content you submit to the Services, you grant Snap and our affiliates a worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licencable, and transferable licence to host, store, cache, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, analyse, transmit, and distribute that content. — Snapchat, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout 34 scrapes) — the platform-claims-it-for-itself direction, with the same right also extended to other users for Public Content specifically — a fourth confirmed user-to-user occurrence under this keyword, alongside Pinterest’s, Quora’s, and TikTok’s.

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… — Spotify, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout 12 scrapes) — the platform-claims-it-for-itself direction, granted to Spotify alone rather than extended to other users.

If you upload or share any Threads Content, you hereby grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate and create derivative works of your Threads Content… including, as applicable, sharing your Threads Content to and with Third Party Users and on Third Party Services that are also integrated with the Protocol. — Threads, Terms of Service, 2024-08-30 (present in substance throughout all 125 scrapes; the persistence-after-deletion sentence is confirmed genuinely strengthened from 2026-01-22 onward — “may be hosted by third parties” becomes “may be hosted on Third Party Servers,” more concrete fediverse-specific language) — the platform-claims-it-for-itself direction, distinctive for explicitly transferring rights to content onto independent Third Party Servers via the decentralized Protocol.

By posting your Contributions to any part of the Service… you automatically grant… an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license… including the right to sell, resell… such Contributions. — TruthSocial, Terms of Service, 2024-03-14 (present in substance throughout 14 scrapes) — the platform-claims-it-for-itself direction, the broadest single-sentence grant in this wiki by qualifier count — see Royalty-Free.

…you grant Tumblr a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable right and license… [and reciprocally] Tumblr grants you a worldwide, revocable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license to download, store, view, display, perform, redistribute, and create derivative works of Content solely in connection with your use of… the Services. — Tumblr, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout 14 scrapes) — both directions confirmed in one document: Tumblr’s license from users is “transferable,” while the reciprocal license it grants back to users is explicitly “non-transferable” — an asymmetric pairing distinct from the symmetric user-to-user grants on Pinterest’s/Quora’s/Snapchat’s pages.

…you are granted a limited, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license (i.e., a personal and limited right) to access and use the Twitch Services for your personal use or internal business use only. — Twitch, Terms of Service, 2023-05-30 (genuinely added; the 2022-07-11 baseline read only “non-sublicensable license” without “non-transferable”) — the restriction direction, the conventional pairing with sublicensable in the same site-use license clause — see Sublicensable.

The licence granted to you under these Terms is limited to a non-transferable licence to use the UpScrolled application on devices that you own or control… You may not transfer, redistribute, or sublicense the UpScrolled application. — UpScrolled, Terms of Service, 2026-02-15 (only scrape in this dataset) — the restriction direction, paired with sublicense in the same Mobile Application Terms clause — see Sublicense.

…you are giving us and our affiliate companies a perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use Your Content… — WeChat, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout 8 scrapes) — the platform-claims-it-for-itself direction, in the same clause as a confirmed user-to-user sub-grant — see Royalty-Free.

…you grant WhatsApp a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, display, and perform the information… [and reciprocally:] We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license to use our Services… — WhatsApp, Terms of Service, 2022-07-11 (present in substance throughout 7 scrapes) — both directions confirmed in one document, the same asymmetric pairing as Tumblr’s Terms of Service: “transferable” for WhatsApp’s grant from users, “non-transferable” for the reciprocal license back.

Notes & Trends

This keyword splits cleanly along the same axis as Sublicensable: Twitter and X use “non-transferable” only to restrict developers, while Facebook’s Platform Terms show both directions in the same document — “non-transferable” restricting developers, but “transferable” describing the broad, perpetual license Meta takes for itself over App-routed data. Facebook is therefore the most informative occurrence in the wiki so far for this keyword: it’s the only platform page where the platform-claims-it-for-itself risk and the platform-restricts-developers pattern both appear side by side, in the same Glossary-adjacent clause cluster. Facebook’s Terms of Service confirms the platform-claims-it-for-itself pattern extends to the consumer side too — the only difference from the “Other” page being scope (user Content, not developer App data) and an explicit user-termination right. Instagram’s “Other” page carries the identical clause to Facebook’s, while Instagram’s Terms of Service independently arrives at the same structural pattern with different wording — confirming the platform-claims-it-for-itself pattern is consistent across Meta’s properties even where the underlying text is not copy-pasted. Reddit’s Terms of Service is the most extreme platform-claims-it-for-itself occurrence in the wiki: “transferable” sits alongside “perpetual” and “irrevocable” in one sentence, with no equivalent of Facebook’s/Instagram’s explicit “you can end this license any time by deleting your content” termination right found in the captured snippets. TikTok’s “Other” page breaks the pattern in a new way: “transferable” appears in neither direction tracked so far (platform-restricts-developer or platform-claims-for-itself) but as a moral-rights-waiver trigger condition — a reminder that this keyword’s risk profile depends entirely on the surrounding sentence, not the word alone. TikTok’s own Terms of Service, in contrast, uses “transferable” in the conventional platform-claims-it-for-itself sense — confirming that within a single platform, the same keyword can mean structurally different things depending on which document is doing the disclosing. LINE’s Terms of Service is the platform-restricts-the-user direction, applied to LINE’s own provided content (stickers/themes) rather than developer API access — a third distinct restriction context for “non-transferable” beyond Twitter’s/X’s developer-facing usage. LinkedIn’s “Other” page shows both directions within one document, like Facebook’s: the conventional developer-restricting API License alongside a self-claiming Feedback-reuse grant — but the self-claiming side covers Feedback, not Content or App data, a new subject-matter variant for this keyword. LinkedIn’s Terms of Service is the clearest example in this wiki of the keyword’s direction flipping over time within the same document: a restriction-direction B2B clause confirmed (via raw cross-check) to have genuinely disappeared on 2023-10-15, replaced by a platform-claims-it-for-itself consumer clause from that date forward. Moltbook’s Terms of Service matches Reddit’s breadth and is the first platform confirmed to grant the identical transferable license twice in one document — once for Content, once for Data. Pinterest’s Terms of Service is the earliest confirmed user-to-user occurrence of this keyword in the wiki’s dataset, predating TikTok’s later, more widely-noted 2025-06-25 rewrite by over two years. Quora’s Terms of Service shares the identical 2022-07-11 baseline date, confirming the user-to-user pattern was not isolated to one platform in that era. Snapchat’s “Other” page is the first occurrence of this keyword in a financial-disclaimer context: rather than a license grant in either direction, it denies that displayed payment estimates are “transferable” property — protecting Snapchat from claims that an estimate is an owed, assignable asset. Snapchat’s Terms of Service, by contrast, uses the keyword in the conventional platform-claims-it-for-itself sense, and is a fourth confirmed user-to-user occurrence at the 2022-07-11 baseline date — the same platform thus shows both a defensive financial-disclaimer use and a maximal Content-license use depending on which document is doing the disclosing. (Note: from here on, the running count switches axes — “fourth” above counts user-to-user grants specifically [Pinterest, Quora, an implicit TikTok-era reference, Snapchat], while “fifth” below and onward counts all platform-claims-it-for-itself occurrences of this keyword regardless of whether they extend to other users — the two counts are not on the same number line.) Spotify’s Terms of Service adds a fifth platform-claims-it-for-itself occurrence, granted to Spotify alone rather than extended to other users, matching Reddit’s pattern of stacking five maximal qualifiers into a single sentence. Threads’ Terms of Service adds a sixth occurrence and the wiki’s clearest example of a clause genuinely strengthening over a long, mostly-static dataset: out of 125 scrapes, only the 2026-01-22 onward state clarifies that transferred Content “may be hosted on Third Party Servers” rather than the vaguer “by third parties” — confirmed via direct diff, not a crop-window artifact. TruthSocial’s Terms of Service adds a seventh occurrence and sets a new high-water mark for breadth, stacking more qualifiers into one sentence than any other platform tracked here. Tumblr’s Terms of Service adds an eighth occurrence and a genuinely asymmetric pairing: “transferable” for the license Tumblr takes from users, explicitly “non-transferable” for the reciprocal license it grants back — the clearest example in this wiki of the same keyword cutting both ways within a single mirrored-license arrangement. Twitch’s Terms of Service adds a ninth occurrence, confirmed genuinely added partway through the document’s history (2023-05-30) rather than present from baseline — a small but real strengthening of the restriction on a user’s site-use license. UpScrolled’s Terms of Service adds a tenth occurrence, the conventional restriction direction scoped to its mobile app specifically. WeChat’s Terms of Service adds an eleventh occurrence, the platform-claims-it-for-itself direction, in the same clause as a confirmed user-to-user sub-grant — see Royalty-Free. WhatsApp’s Terms of Service adds a twelfth occurrence and a second confirmed asymmetric same-document pairing (after Tumblr’s): “transferable” for WhatsApp’s own grant, “non-transferable” for the reciprocal license it grants back to users.