Do a platform's terms let it use your content or name in promotion?
Of the 15 platforms I read: allows it, 8; not stated in the pages I read, 7. Each quote is the platform's exact wording, with a link to the page it came from.
Allows it (8)
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our right to use, in connection with promoting you or your account, any name, username, voice, image, or likeness provided with the Content
Source The license includes the platform's right to use a creator's name, username, voice, image or likeness provided with the Content in connection with promoting the creator or their account, in all media now known or later developed. The wording is promoting you or your account, not the platform. -
MV may use UPLOADER's Content (alone or combined with other works) solely for promotional or marketing purposes in line with these TOS.
Source The platform may use the uploader's content for promotion and marketing. -
the Creator’s Store, any name, username, voice, image, or likeness provided with the Content, and to do so in all media
Source The license includes using the name, username, voice, image or likeness provided with the Content in connection with promoting the Creator or the Creator's Store, in all media. The general license covers promoting you or your store. An opt-in program extends it to promoting the platform. -
Include your content in platform marketing (you can opt out in settings)
Source The Creator Agreement license lets the platform use thumbnails and previews for promotion and include creator content in platform marketing, with an opt-out in settings. -
for their commercial use with purposes of promoting the Platform on the Internet
Source The license over creators' content covers commercial use to promote the platform on the internet, on the owner's sites and on third-party sites hosted on its servers.Creators sign a separate Content Creator Agreement, which I have not read.
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may make use of your Content for promotional or commercial purposes and to render the services pursuant to these Terms of Services
Source The terms say the site and its successors and affiliates may use the creator's Content for promotional or commercial purposes, with no consent step stated. -
to use the Participant’s Video Content on the Website in connection with the advertising and exploitation of the Website
Source The Ad Revenue Agreement licenses the platform to use a creator's videos to advertise the site, and to use the creator's name, biography and likeness to advertise its products. From the Ad Revenue Agreement; I read the version effective April 11, 2025.I read the general terms and the Ad Revenue Agreement. I have not read the separate Creators' Program terms.
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in connection with delivering the Platform and for marketing and advertising the availability of the Platform in any media format we choose.
Source The license over broadcast or uploaded content covers marketing and advertising the availability of the platform in any media format the platform chooses. Covers content; name and likeness are not named.
Not stated (7)
The pages I read for these platforms don't give a clear answer. Where they say something close, my note says what. Silence is not a promise either way, and it does not mean no rule applies: a platform can act under a general clause, or under an agreement that isn't on its public pages.
- OnlyFans. Nothing on this in the pages I read.
- Fansly. Nothing on this in the pages I read.
- JustForFans. Nothing on this in the pages I read.
- FanCentro. Creator terms sit in a separate "Terms of Service for Creators and Agencies", which I have not read.
- iWantClips. Payout terms sit in a separate Artist Agreement, which I have not read.
- FapHouse. Creators also sign a Content Provider Supplement Agreement, which I have not read. The terms say it covers the rights creators grant and their warranties; the public creator terms I read cover referral rewards, not earnings.
- XVideos. Nothing on this in the pages I read.
Not read
Stripchat. I could not read its terms page with the tools I used, so I left it out rather than guess.
NiteFlirt. I read only its rules page, not its user agreement, so I left it out rather than report silence.
The other questions
I'm not a lawyer. These pages record what the documents said the day I read them, so read the source before you act on any of it.