As Roblox grows, it is important that our Terms of Use remains applicable and relevant to the ever-growing community of global creators, users, and partners. We have listened to feedback from many of you and have made some adjustments that we believe will benefit everyone on the platform, including making the terms easier to read and access.
Our goal in revising the Terms of Use is to provide a level of transparency and clarity for all users of Roblox. We are now referring to anyone who publishes content onto the platform, including developers, as a Creator. The revised Terms of Use now have “Creator Terms,” which are more specific to Creators while our “User Terms” apply to everyone who enjoys Roblox.
This update includes, but is not limited to:
A rewrite of the Terms of Use to make it easier to read
A revision of the UGC license to Roblox which provides limitations on how Roblox may market and promote UGC off of the platform.
An express trademark license for Creators to use Roblox trademarks on the platform
Removed the concept of Roblox being able to create “derivative works” based on a Creator’s UGC
Modified language in some areas to make it more consistent with the existing license terms for global Creators
Updated the appendices that contain additional terms for specific countries outside of the US
We have also updated our Developer Exchange Terms of Use to provide more information about the DevEx program, including eligibility requirements and cashing out “Earned Robux.”
Note: Any changes outlined in the new terms will take effect 30 days from today. We strongly encourage you to review the full, updated revised Terms of Use to make sure you fully understand them and are prepared to follow them. Remember, if you use the Roblox platform, or any other Roblox website, app or other service after February 10, 2022 you will be doing so under these updated terms.
The new highlight feature is amazing. Not only will it make understanding the Terms of Use much easier, it also makes searching through it a much simpler process.
The ability to collapse sections is also very helpful for navigating through the content. Very happy with these changes!
I think that’s referring to paid access. They tried to combine two sentences (two verbs) into each other and “trade” probably was not meant to apply to “Experiences” there. Just like you can’t actually trade game passes / developer product purchases.
Just like Robux is already a virtual currency, Roblox experiences offer their own virtual currencies. Although it’s a purchased product, it could also be considered a way of redeeming or even exchanging your Robux for in-experience goods (which may be virtual currencies). I do not feel the terms reflect this. Perhaps specify not for any currency of real money value?
Wait would this mean that roblox can’t use our creations as marketing material or take what we make in experiences anymore?
Roblox IP includes UGC licensed to Roblox by Creators under the Creator Terms. Except as allowed in these User Terms or any other Roblox Terms, User may not use any Roblox IP contained in the Services unless User gets separate permission from the owner. - Roblox
However it seems this is contradicted by
Collectively, the User Terms, the Creator Terms, the DevEx Terms, the Roblox Community Standards, the DMCA Guidelines and Policies and the Roblox TM Guidelines… Some Experiences also allow for independent UGC creation within the Experience by Users of that Experience. Such Users who separately create UGC within an Experience hereby grant Roblox and the Creator of the applicable Experience a worldwide, perpetual, royalty free and irrevocable right and exclusive license to use and exploit that UGC in any manner or media without any obligation, including any obligation to pay royalties or other compensation to any person or party. - Roblox
Because if this means what I think it does we can now use quixel megascans on roblox if we own what we upload
Incredibly happy with the Revised ToS so far. What I’m even more happy about is this right here:
Now people cannot just get away with deliberately copying an experience and passing it off as their own. I hope we get to see more positive changes like this (and hopefully some more originality on the platform for once!)
Hey everyone! If anyone is in need of a diff comparing the old and new Terms of Service, here are the diffs:
