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This is the only LINE document type with data — LINE_Community_Guidelines.jsonl and LINE_Privacy_Policy.jsonl are both empty (0 lines) and have been skipped. Across 6 scrapes spanning 2022-07-11 to 2025-02-03, this small file contains 6 unique snippets governing two structurally opposite clauses that both exist side by side in the document throughout: a broad "Submitted Contents" license (User → LINE, high risk) and a narrow "Subject Contents" license (LINE → User, low risk).

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AI trainingRoyalty-freeSublicensablePerpetual / irrevocableTransferableDerivative works

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LINE – Terms of Service

Dataset: PGAv2 (Platform Governance Archive v2) — 25 platforms, 2022–2026

PGAv2 (Platform Governance Archive v2) is this wiki’s legacy dataset: pre-tagged JSONL records covering 25 major social-media, messaging, and content-sharing platforms, with risk scores and keywords assigned via systematic extraction of 1,736 high-risk clauses from each platform’s Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, and Community Guidelines, spanning 2022–2026.

Note: This page contains documented policy clauses. Risk assessment is qualitative and context-dependent. For analysis of patterns across platforms, see:

Source: sources/jsonl/LINE_Terms_of_Service.jsonl Last updated: 2025-02-03

Overview

This is the only LINE document type with data — LINE_Community_Guidelines.jsonl and LINE_Privacy_Policy.jsonl are both empty (0 lines) and have been skipped. Across 6 scrapes spanning 2022-07-11 to 2025-02-03, this small file contains 6 unique snippets governing two structurally opposite clauses that both exist side by side in the document throughout: a broad “Submitted Contents” license (User → LINE, high risk) and a narrow “Subject Contents” license (LINE → User, low risk).

Important data-quality finding, confirmed via sources/raw/LINE/Terms of Service/: starting 2023-10-02, the royalty-free/sublicense keyword tags stop appearing in this dataset. Cross-checking the raw HTML capture for 2023-10-02 (sources/raw/LINE/Terms of Service/2023-10-02T06-32-49Z.md, line 124) confirms the underlying “Submitted Contents” royalty-free/sublicensable clause is still present in the live document — the scraper simply stopped capturing it under those keyword tags from this date onward. This means the dataset’s keyword coverage for 2023-10-02 through 2025-02-03 understates the actual risk — the broad Content license was not removed, only the dataset’s coverage of it. The raw capture also shows the surviving clause’s wording evolved slightly (e.g., “free of charge and non-exclusively, with indefinite duration within and outside of Japan” replacing the earlier “worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license… right to sublicense”), but since this wording is not captured in the JSONL dataset, it is described here from raw context only and not quoted as a verbatim snippet (per this wiki’s quoting rules, which reserve block quotes for dataset-captured text).

Flagged Keywords & Risks

Legal Context & Research Significance

The “Submitted Contents” clause — a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable grant over publicly-posted content — falls under wearetosed’s “data sharing & selling” category insofar as it permits LINE to sublicense usage rights “to other third parties working together with LINE” for promotional purposes. This page is also a useful illustration of Javed and Sajid’s (2024) point that most privacy-policy/ToS research still relies on manual rather than automated analysis methods: the confirmed data-quality finding that the royalty-free/sublicense keyword tags silently stopped being captured from 2023-10-02 onward, even though the underlying clause remained live in the raw HTML, shows how an automated keyword-extraction pipeline like this dataset’s can understate real risk simply through a scraper crop-window change rather than any actual policy softening.

Changes Summary

DateWhat changed
2022-07-11Baseline version (first scrape in this dataset).
2022-11-02royalty-free/sublicense (“Submitted Contents” clause) wording updated — minor rephrasing confirmed via diff, same substantive grant.
2023-09-28No changes from previous version.
2023-10-02Data-quality event, not a policy change: royalty-free/sublicense tags stop being captured in this dataset; confirmed via raw HTML cross-check that the underlying clause is still present in the live document — see Overview. sublicensable/transferable (“Subject Contents” clause) wording also updated.
2024-02-16sublicensable/transferable (“Subject Contents” clause) wording updated again — minor rephrasing.
2025-02-03No changes from previous version.

Version History

2022-07-11

Clause: royalty-free, sublicense

10.4.If Users wish to back-up all or part of the Submitted Contents, they will need to do so themselves. LINE will not undertake the obligation of backing up any of the Submitted Contents. 10.5.The Services may include functions where multiple Users may edit Contents (post, correct, and delete, etc.). In such case, a User who posted his/her Submitted Contents shall grant other Users the right to edit such Submitted Contents. 10.6.Users shall retain their rights to their Submitted Contents, and LINE shall not acquire any such rights; provided, however, that, among the Submitted Contents, for those made available to other Users generally (i.e., not just to the User’s “friends”), the User who posted such Submitted Contents shall be deemed to have granted LINE a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license (including the right to amend (such as abbreviating) such Contents to the extent LINE deems necessary and appropriate, and the right to sublicense such usage rights to other third parties working together with LINE), to use such Contents for services and/or promotional purposes. 10.7.Users shall not exercise their rights such as author’s moral rights with respect to the Submitted Contents in relation to the use by LINE or a third party under Articles 10.5 and 10.6 above. 10.8.LINE may check and confirm the contents of the Submitted Contents by Users to the extent permissible under laws and regulations, when it is necessary for LINE to confirm compliance with related laws and regulations or the provisions set out in these Terms and Conditions, etc.; provided, however, that LINE is not obligated to conduct such confirmation. 10.9.If LINE believes that a User has violated or may violate any applicable laws or regulations or the provisions of these Terms and Conditions in relation to the Submitted Contents, or when otherwise reasonably necessary for LINE’s business, then LINE reserves the right to preclude such User’s use of the Services in certain manners, such as deleting the Submitted Contents without providing prior notice to the User. 11.Coins 11.1.Coins will be provided to Users by the means specified by LINE, such as purchases in the Services, special offers and the like.

Clause: sublicensable, transferable

8.Advertisements LINE reserves the right to post advertisements for LINE or a third party on the Services. 9.Third-Party Services The Services may contain services or Contents provided by third parties other than LINE. Such third parties shall bear any and all responsibility regarding such services and/or Contents. Furthermore, there may be terms or use or other terms and conditions provided by such third party which are applicable to such services and Contents. 10.Contents 10.1.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. 10.2.Users shall abide by the conditions applicable thereto when using the Subject Contents which are subject to conditions of use, such as additional fees and periods of use and the like. Even if terms such as “Purchase”, “Sales,” and the like appear on the screens for the Services, LINE shall remain the owner of all intellectual property rights as well as all other rights in the Subject Contents offered to Users by LINE, and such rights shall not be transferred to Users. Users will only be granted usage rights as set forth above. 10.3.Users shall not use the Subject Contents beyond the scope of the intended use of the Subject Contents in the Services (including, without limitation, acts of copying, transmitting, reproducing, and modifying).

2022-11-02

Clause: royalty-free, sublicense

10.5. The Services may include functions where multiple Users may edit Contents (post, correct, and delete, etc.). In such case, a User who posted his/her Submitted Contents shall grant other Users the right to edit such Submitted Contents. 10.6. Users shall retain their rights to their Submitted Contents, and LINE shall not acquire any such rights; provided, however, that, among the Submitted Contents, for those made available to other Users generally (i.e., not just to the User’s “friends”), the User who posted such Submitted Contents shall be deemed to have granted LINE a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license (including the right to amend (such as abbreviating) such Contents to the extent LINE deems necessary and appropriate, and the right to sublicense such usage rights to other third parties working together with LINE), to use such Contents for services and/or promotional purposes. 10.7. Users shall not exercise their rights such as author’s moral rights with respect to the Submitted Contents in relation to the use by LINE or a third party under Articles 10.5 and 10.6 above. 10.8. LINE may check and confirm the contents of the Submitted Contents by Users to the extent permissible under laws and regulations, when it is necessary for LINE to confirm compliance with related laws and regulations or the provisions set out in these Terms and Conditions, etc.; provided, however, that LINE is not obligated to conduct such confirmation.

Clause: sublicensable, transferable

Such third parties shall bear any and all responsibility regarding such services and/or Contents. Furthermore, there may be terms or use or other terms and conditions provided by such third party which are applicable to such services and Contents. 10. Contents 10.1. 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. 10.2. Users shall abide by the conditions applicable thereto when using the Subject Contents which are subject to conditions of use, such as additional fees and periods of use and the like. Even if terms such as “Purchase”, “Sales,” and the like appear on the screens for the Services, LINE shall remain the owner of all intellectual property rights as well as all other rights in the Subject Contents offered to Users by LINE, and such rights shall not be transferred to Users. Users will only be granted usage rights as set forth above.

2023-09-28

All clauses unchanged from 2022-11-02 (see above).

2023-10-02

Clause: sublicensable, transferable

8. Contents 8.1. We grant Users a non-transferable, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive license to use the Subject Contents provided by us, solely for the purpose of using the Services. 8.2. Users shall abide by the conditions applicable thereto when using the Subject Contents which are subject to conditions of use, such as additional fees and periods of use and the like. Even if terms such as “Purchase”, “Sales,” and the like appear on the screens for the Services, we shall remain the owner of all intellectual property rights as well as all other rights in the Contents offered to Users by us, and such rights shall not be transferred to Users. Users will only be granted usage rights as set forth above. 8.3. You must not use (including, without limitation, copying, transmitting, reproducing and modifying) the Subject Contents beyond the scope of the intended use of the Subject Contents in the Services.

2024-02-16

Clause: sublicensable, transferable

7. No emergency call functions The Services cannot be depended upon for emergency calls, such as those made to law enforcement agencies, maritime safety authorities, fire brigade or other emergency services. 8. Contents 8.1. We grant Users a non-transferable, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive license to use the Subject Contents provided by us, solely for the purpose of using the Services. 8.2. Users shall abide by the conditions applicable thereto when using the Subject Contents which are subject to conditions of use, such as additional fees and periods of use and the like. Even if terms such as “Purchase”, “Sales,” and the like appear on the screens for the Services, we shall remain the owner of all intellectual property rights as well as all other rights in the Contents offered to Users by us, and such rights shall not be transferred to Users. Users will only be granted usage rights as set forth above.

2025-02-03

All clauses unchanged from 2024-02-16 (see above).