The documents that decide whether a brand can reuse someone else’s post are the platform’s own terms of service, its embed or platform terms, and its help pages on resharing. Those three document classes are published, free to read, and rarely opened. This page opens them and quotes them.
Nothing here is legal advice.
Every quotation below carries the document’s published title, the section it sits in, the link, and the date the version was read. Platform documents change without notice, so the date matters as much as the quote. All seven platforms in scope now carry clause-level findings. Four of them were read directly at their URLs; the Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Pinterest developer documents were read through a browser rendering on 2026-08-28, because those pages are client-rendered or were unreachable without a different network path, and each quote from them says so. A short list of named documents is still outside reach, and those are recorded as absences rather than filled with prose.
What follows is the reading path: which documents govern each platform, why embedding and in-app resharing and re-uploading are three separate acts with three different governing documents, what the documents say about permission and about the licence they describe, the questions they leave unanswered, and the beliefs they do not support.
Which documents actually govern, platform by platform
Reuse of another user’s post is governed by three documents per platform, not one. The terms of service set the relationship between the platform and every user. The embed, platform or developer terms govern displaying a post outside the platform. The help pages describe the reshare surfaces the platform built and the conditions on them.
The tables below cover all seven platforms in scope. X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Pinterest carry a full three-document set. Instagram, Facebook and TikTok carry the documents that were obtainable on 2026-08-28, and the documents that remain out of reach are named at the end of this section. Quotes are the operative fragment, not the clause in full.
X
| Document | What it says about reuse of another user’s post | Section reference | Date read |
|---|---|---|---|
| X Terms of Service (Effective: April 10, 2026 for users outside the EU, EFTA States and the UK; Effective: January 15, 2026 for users inside them) | “If you want to reproduce, modify, create derivative works, distribute, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, or otherwise use the Services or Content on the Services, you must use the interfaces and instructions we provide, except as permitted through the Services, these Terms, or the terms provided on https://developer.x.com/developer-terms . Otherwise, all such actions are strictly prohibited.” | Section 4, “Using the Services” | 2026-08-28 |
| Display requirements: Posts (no effective or last-updated date published on the page as read) | “(Note that, in some cases, permission from the original content creator may still be necessary, as X does not provide permission to use third party/user content.)” And under Don’t: “Use X content to promote any product or service (e.g., by displaying X content in advertising or otherwise displaying X content to imply endorsement of any product or service) without explicit permission from the user.” | “General principles and Post anatomy” | 2026-08-28 |
| X Repost FAQs (no last-updated date published on the page as read) | “If the original post was deleted by its author or otherwise removed from the service, or if the original post author’s account was deleted or suspended, your Repost will no longer be available.” And: “because they have chosen not to share their posts publicly, their posts cannot be reposted by you or anyone else.” | “Why can I no longer see my Repost?” and “Why can’t some posts be Reposted?” | 2026-08-28 |
X publishes two regional versions of the same terms on one page, with different effective dates. Both carry the same grant-of-rights language quoted in the permission section below.
| Document | What it says about reuse of another user’s post | Section reference | Date read |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinkedIn User Agreement (Effective on November 3, 2025) | “Copy, use, display or distribute any information (including content) obtained from the Services, whether directly or through third parties (such as search tools or data aggregators or brokers), without the consent of the content owner”. And: “do not copy or distribute (except through the available sharing functionality) the posts or other content of others without their permission, which they may give by posting under a Creative Commons license”. | Section 8.2, “Don’ts” | 2026-08-28 |
| Availability of your content off LinkedIn (published as “Last updated: 11 months ago”) | “Members can embed content from LinkedIn (desktop only) and distribute it online if the visibility of the content is set to Anyone.” Under Notes: “Only posts that an author has shared as Public can be embedded.” And: “Notifications won’t be sent to the author of the post when you embed their content.” And: “If an author deletes the content you’ve embedded, the embeds will also get deleted.” | “Members can embed content from the LinkedIn feed” and “Notes” | 2026-08-28 |
| How to repost a post on LinkedIn (published as “Last updated: 1 month ago”) | “You can repost existing public posts from other members or LinkedIn Pages and add your own ideas or questions to share with your network.” | Opening paragraph | 2026-08-28 |
The LinkedIn User Agreement is the only document in this whole set that names the download-and-re-upload act and the in-app reshare act in the same sentence and treats them differently. The parenthetical “except through the available sharing functionality” is doing all the work.
YouTube
| Document | What it says about reuse of another user’s post | Section reference | Date read |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube Terms of Service (Effective as of January 5, 2022) | “You may view or listen to Content for your personal, non-commercial use. You may also show YouTube videos through the embeddable YouTube player.” Restriction: you are not allowed to “access, reproduce, download, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, alter, modify or otherwise use any part of the Service or any Content except: (a) as expressly authorized by the Service; or (b) with prior written permission from YouTube and, if applicable, the respective rights holders”. Upload rule: Content must “not include third-party intellectual property (such as copyrighted material) unless you have permission from that party or are otherwise legally entitled to do so”. | “Permissions and Restrictions”; “Your Content and Conduct” / “Uploading Content” | 2026-08-28 |
| YouTube API Services Terms of Service (“Last updated 2026-04-28 UTC”) | Defines the services it governs: “The ‘YouTube API Services’ means (i) the YouTube API services (e.g., YouTube Data API service and YouTube Reporting API service) made available by YouTube including those YouTube API services made available on the YouTube Developer Site”. | Opening paragraph, “Terms of Service” | 2026-08-28 |
| Embed videos & playlists (no last-updated date published on the page as read) | “The YouTube API Terms of Service and Developer Policies apply to all access and use of the YouTube embedded player.” | “Embed videos & playlists” | 2026-08-28 |
That last line is the reason the embed terms are a separate document class rather than a footnote. YouTube’s help page routes the ordinary iframe embed to the API Services Terms of Service, which is a different agreement from the YouTube Terms of Service and carries a different date.
| Document | What it says about reuse of another user’s post | Section reference | Date read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinterest Terms of Service (Effective date: April 30, 2025) | “By providing any User Content on the Service, you grant us and our affiliates and service providers, and our users, a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, store, publicly perform or display, reproduce, save, modify, create derivative works, monetize, download, translate and distribute your User Content”. The plain-language summary under the same clause: “If you post your User Content on Pinterest, we can show it to people and others can use it and save it.” | Section 3(b), “How we and other users can use your User Content” | 2026-08-28 |
| Developer guidelines (no effective or last-updated date published on the page as read) | Under “Publishing content”, an app that publishes content from Pinterest must “Link Pins back to their source on Pinterest”, must “Not cover or obscure content from Pinterest”, and must “Not create new content from Pins that can be distributed on your app or service”. | “Publishing content” | 2026-08-28 |
| Save Pins to a board (no last-updated date published on the page as read) | Describes the save surface step by step and adds: “You can download an image from a Pin and look at it offline.” | “Save a Pin to your board” | 2026-08-28 |
Pinterest’s section 3(b) heading names other users as licensees in its own title. No other terms of service in this set does that.
| Document | What it says about reuse of another user’s post | Section reference | Date read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instagram Terms of Use (no effective or last-updated date published on the page as read; read via a browser rendering, because the page returns a client-rendered shell to a plain request) | “You can’t post someone else’s private or confidential information without permission or do anything that violates someone else’s rights, including intellectual property rights (e.g., copyright infringement, trademark infringement, counterfeit, or pirated goods).” And: “You represent you own or have obtained all necessary rights to the content you post or share.” | Section 4.2, “How You Can’t Use Instagram” | 2026-08-28 |
| Instagram Terms of Use, routing to the Meta Platform Terms (read via a browser rendering) | “your use of our API is subject to our Meta Platform Terms and Developer Policies”. The Instagram Terms of Use themselves contain zero occurrences of “embed” as read. | Section 7.1, “Our Agreement” | 2026-08-28 |
| Instagram help page on sharing another account’s post (https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511) | Not retrievable. In a browser on 2026-08-28 the URL redirects to the Terms of Use page, so no Instagram help-page text on resharing another user’s post is available to quote. | Not applicable | 2026-08-28 |
The Instagram Terms of Use place the whole permission question on the person doing the posting and never name a reshare surface. Zero occurrences of “embed”, “repost” or “story” appear in the document as read on 2026-08-28.
| Document | What it says about reuse of another user’s post | Section reference | Date read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Terms of Service (“Effective from 1 January 2025”; read via a browser rendering, because the page returns a client-rendered shell to a plain request) | “You may not use our Products to do or share anything: … That you do not own or have the necessary rights to share. That infringes or violates someone else’s rights, including their intellectual property rights (such as by infringing another’s copyright or trademark, or distributing or selling counterfeit or pirated goods)”. The same document maps itself: “(For example, your use of Instagram is subject to the Instagram Terms of Use).” | Section 3.2, “What you can share and do on Meta Products”, and the Overview | 2026-08-28 |
| Meta Platform Terms (“updated February 3, 2026”) | Section 1(a) defines Platform as “the set of APIs, SDKs, tools, plugins, code, technology, content, and services that enables others, including app developers and website operators, to develop functionality, retrieve data from Meta and any other Meta Products , or provide data to us.” Section 2(b) grants Meta a licence to “Your Content”, meaning content the developer makes available. A search of the document as read returns zero occurrences of the phrase “user content” and no clause addressing a brand’s reuse of another user’s post. | Sections 1(a) and 2(b) | 2026-08-28 |
| Facebook embed terms (https://www.facebook.com/legal/embed_terms) | Not retrievable. Rendered in a browser on 2026-08-28, the page shows “This content isn’t available” with a login prompt. This is the document that would state the conditions on the Facebook embed code, and it is not publicly readable. | Not applicable | 2026-08-28 |
The Meta Terms of Service and the Instagram Terms of Use are two separate agreements that carry the same substance on this question, and each states which products it covers. Neither one names a reshare surface: zero occurrences of “embed” or “repost” in either document as read, and the only occurrences of “stories” in the Meta Terms of Service describe Meta’s own products in Section 1.
TikTok
| Document | What it says about reuse of another user’s post | Section reference | Date read |
|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok U.S. Terms of Service (“Last updated: July 15, 2026”, an agreement with TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC; read via a browser rendering, because the host was unreachable from the earlier network path) | Users must not “use TikTok Content (as defined in Section 3.5), another user’s content or generative AI-enabled features for commercial purposes unless permitted by TikTok USDS Joint Venture or the user, respectively (including via applicable account settings)”. Section 1 brings “the TikTok embeddable media player” inside the definition of the Platform. | Section 3.4, “What you can’t do on the Platform”, and Section 1 | 2026-08-28 |
| TikTok Terms of Service for other regions (“Last updated: 1 December 2025”, published for users “not in the US, EEA, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or India”; read via a browser rendering) | “Our Services are provided for private, non-commercial use.” Section 5 bars using the Services “without our express written consent, for any commercial or unauthorized purpose”. Section 7(B) states: “Users of the Services may also extract all or any portion of User Content created by another user to produce additional User Content”. | Sections 1, 5 and 7(B) | 2026-08-28 |
| TikTok’s intellectual property document, headed Intellectual Property Policy and published at the Copyright Policy URL (“Released March 27, 2025”, “Effective April 26, 2025”; read via a browser rendering) | “We do not allow any content that infringes copyright. The use of copyrighted content of others without proper authorization or legally valid reason may lead to a violation of TikTok’s policies.” And, to rightsholders: “If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you are encouraged to first contact the user for a quick and direct resolution of the matter.” | “Copyright Infringement” and “Information for Rightsholders” | 2026-08-28 |
| Embed Videos (“Last updated August 4, 2026”; read via a browser rendering) | “Embedded Videos enable TikTok videos to be embedded into your articles or websites.” And: “A video’s availability is consistent in and outside the TikTok app, as moderation standards and results are applied to both in-app content and embedded content.” | “Embed Videos” and “Embed from TikTok.com” | 2026-08-28 |
| TikTok help pages on sharing videos and on Duet and Stitch (https://support.tiktok.com/en/using-tiktok/exploring-videos/sharing-videos and https://support.tiktok.com/en/using-tiktok/creating-videos/duet-and-stitch) | Not retrievable. Rendered in a browser on 2026-08-28, both pages return navigation text only and the article pane never loads. These are the pages that would describe the share sheet, Duet and Stitch step by step. | Not applicable | 2026-08-28 |
TikTok publishes two terms of service, one per region, with different operators and different dates, and the wording of the reuse position differs between them. The U.S. version names the user as a source of permission for commercial use of another user’s content. The other-regions version states the private, non-commercial purpose of the Services in its opening section.
One reference correction. The URL https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/global/intellectual-property-policy/en returned a TikTok 404 page when rendered in a browser on 2026-08-28. The live intellectual property document is served at the Copyright Policy URL, https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/global/copyright-policy/en, and is headed “Intellectual Property Policy” with the copyright and trademark sections inside it. Every reference on this page is to that URL.
Documents named here that are not publicly retrievable. Four remain, and each is named at the row it belongs to: the Facebook embed terms, which would state the conditions on the Facebook embed code; the Instagram help page at https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511, which would describe Instagram’s own resharing surface; TikTok’s help pages on sharing videos and on Duet and Stitch, which would describe those surfaces; and Pinterest’s widget and save developer documentation, which renders as a login-gated shell. No text is attributed to any of them.
Scope of these tables. They answer the question for reuse on the platform where the content was published, in the form the platform published it. They do not answer it for cross-platform reuse, and they do not answer it for paid placement, with one exception: X’s display requirements address promotional and advertising use directly, and that quote appears above.
Embedding, resharing in-app, and re-uploading are three different acts
The governing document changes with the mechanism, not with the intention. A brand that wants to feature a customer’s post has one goal and three possible acts, and the three acts land on three different documents. Three acts, in the order the documents treat them.
1. Embedding. The post stays hosted on the platform and appears inside another page through the platform’s own embed code or player. The embed, platform or developer terms govern it, and on two platforms the help pages add conditions the terms do not mention.
| Platform | Governing document | What that document states about embedding |
|---|---|---|
| X | Display requirements: Posts | “If you follow these guidelines merely to display a post, you may not need to contact X for any additional display or trademark permissions.” The same paragraph adds that permission from the creator may still be necessary, and the Don’t list bars promotional use without explicit permission from the user. |
| Availability of your content off LinkedIn | “Only posts that an author has shared as Public can be embedded.” The author is not notified, and the embed disappears if the author deletes the post. | |
| YouTube | Embed videos & playlists, routing to the YouTube API Services Terms of Service | “The YouTube API Terms of Service and Developer Policies apply to all access and use of the YouTube embedded player.” |
| Pinterest Developer and API Terms of Service | The document pulls widgets and the on-site buttons inside its own scope: “the Pinterest website, apps, APIs, and widgets are referred to collectively as the ‘Pinterest Services’”, and “Developer Features” is defined to include “Pinterest products that websites and developers can use to offer Pinterest features and functionality to their users (e.g. the ‘Save,’ ‘Pin It’ and ‘Follow’ buttons)”. Section 3 grants “a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to use our Materials”. Section 2 bars developing or distributing “any application that has as its primary purpose to collect, transfer, share, or sell User Content posted by users other than you or your Customers, such as other users’ boards and Pins, without Pinterest’s express prior written consent (email is sufficient)”. Published as “Last Updated : August 2026” and read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28. The document contains zero occurrences of the word “embed” as read. | |
| TikTok | Embed Videos, with the TikTok U.S. Terms of Service naming the player | “Embedded Videos enable TikTok videos to be embedded into your articles or websites.” The documentation states that the player “provides proper attribution by showing the video creator, video description and background sound” and “links back to the corresponding content on TikTok”. Section 1 of the U.S. Terms of Service counts “the TikTok embeddable media player” inside the Platform. Both read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28. The embed documentation contains zero occurrences of “permission” or “license” as read. |
| Meta | Meta Platform Terms | Section 1(a) brings plugins and website operators inside the definition of Platform. The document does not address reuse of another user’s post, as read on 2026-08-28. The Facebook embed terms, which would carry the conditions on the Facebook embed code, show “This content isn’t available” with a login prompt when rendered in a browser and are not publicly retrievable. |
This item covers the case where the post stays on the platform and the reader’s browser fetches it from there. It does not cover a screenshot of an embed, and it does not cover an embed that has been styled to hide its source, which X’s display requirements address separately.
2. Resharing in-app. The platform’s own reshare surface carries the post: repost, share to Story, quote, save to a board. The terms of service govern the act and the help page describes the surface and its conditions.
| Platform | Governing documents | What those documents state about the reshare surface |
|---|---|---|
| X | X Terms of Service plus X Repost FAQs | The terms require use of “the interfaces and instructions we provide”. The FAQs state that protected posts “cannot be reposted by you or anyone else”, and that a repost stops being available if the original is deleted or the author’s account is deleted or suspended. |
| LinkedIn User Agreement plus How to repost a post on LinkedIn | Section 8.2 carves the reshare surface out of its copying prohibition with the words “except through the available sharing functionality”. The help page limits the surface to “existing public posts from other members or LinkedIn Pages”. | |
| YouTube | YouTube Terms of Service plus Share videos and channels | The “License to Other Users” clause limits the licence to use “only as enabled by a feature of the Service (such as video playback or embeds)”. The help page enumerates the share panel’s options as social networks, email, embed, copy the link, start at, and post. It does not describe downloading the video file. |
| Pinterest Terms of Service plus Save Pins to a board | Section 3(b) names “our users” among the licensees of User Content. The help page describes saving a Pin to a board and adds that an image from a Pin can be downloaded to look at offline. | |
| TikTok | TikTok Terms of Service for other regions plus the TikTok U.S. Terms of Service | Section 7(B) of the other-regions version describes the in-app extraction surface: “Users of the Services may also extract all or any portion of User Content created by another user to produce additional User Content, including collaborative User Content with other users, that combine and intersperse User Content generated by more than one user.” In the U.S. version the person posting grants “each user of the Platform” a licence to use Your Content, “including to access, reproduce (e.g. to copy), distribute, share, download, adapt or make derivative works (e.g. to include Your Content in their content), perform, and communicate Your Content to the public”, “in accordance with these Terms”, and Section 3.4 bars using “another user’s content … for commercial purposes unless permitted by TikTok USDS Joint Venture or the user”. Both read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28. The help pages that would describe the share sheet, Duet and Stitch return navigation text only in a browser and are not quotable. |
| Instagram and Facebook | Instagram Terms of Use plus the Meta Terms of Service | Neither document names a reshare surface. Zero occurrences of “embed” or “repost” appear in either one, as read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28, and the only occurrences of “stories” in the Meta Terms of Service describe Meta’s own products in Section 1. The Instagram help page that would describe the surface redirects to the Terms of Use, so the conditions on Instagram’s and Facebook’s own reshare surfaces are not stated in any publicly retrievable document. |
This item covers the case where the platform built the button and the reader is looking at the platform’s own rendering of the post. It does not cover the case where the reshare surface is unavailable for that content type, which the LinkedIn embed help page reports for multi-photo posts and reposts with commentary, and which the X Repost FAQs reports for protected accounts.
3. Re-uploading. The file is downloaded and posted again as a new post on the reposting account. This is the act most articles treat as interchangeable with the other two, and it is the act the documents treat most explicitly.
| Platform | Governing document | What that document states about re-uploading |
|---|---|---|
| X | X Terms of Service, Section 4 | Reproducing, distributing, publicly displaying or otherwise using Content on the Services outside the provided interfaces and the developer terms is described as “strictly prohibited”. |
| LinkedIn User Agreement, Section 8.2 | “do not copy or distribute (except through the available sharing functionality) the posts or other content of others without their permission”. | |
| YouTube | YouTube Terms of Service, “Uploading Content” | Uploaded Content must “not include third-party intellectual property (such as copyrighted material) unless you have permission from that party or are otherwise legally entitled to do so”. |
| Pinterest Terms of Service, Section 3(a) | “You will only post User Content that you have the rights to post, and you won’t post User Content that infringes the intellectual property rights of others”. | |
| Instagram Terms of Use, Section 4.2 | “You represent you own or have obtained all necessary rights to the content you post or share.” The same section bars doing “anything that violates someone else’s rights, including intellectual property rights”. Read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28. | |
| Meta Terms of Service, Section 3.2 | Members may not share anything “That you do not own or have the necessary rights to share”, or anything “That infringes or violates someone else’s rights, including their intellectual property rights”. Read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28. | |
| TikTok | TikTok Terms of Service for other regions, Section 7(B), with TikTok’s Intellectual Property Policy at the Copyright Policy URL | “When you submit User Content through the Services, you agree and represent that you own that User Content, or you have received all necessary permissions, clearances from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the content to submit it to the Services, to transmit it from the Services to other third party platforms, and/or adopt any third party content.” The intellectual property document adds: “The use of copyrighted content of others without proper authorization or legally valid reason may lead to a violation of TikTok’s policies.” Both read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28. |
This item covers the case where a file leaves the platform and comes back as a new post under a different account. It does not cover a quote post or a duet, which keep the original attached and sit under item 2.
The three tables above describe one customer video and three ways of putting it on a brand account. The video does not change. The document that governs changes three times.
What the documents say about permission
Three questions, asked of every document read: does it require permission from the person who posted, what licence does it describe and who receives it, and does it describe any process for getting permission.
Does the document require permission from the person who posted?
X’s display requirements answer this in a parenthesis most people never reach: “permission from the original content creator may still be necessary, as X does not provide permission to use third party/user content.” The same document bars using X content “to promote any product or service … without explicit permission from the user”, which is precisely the brand case.
The LinkedIn User Agreement states it as a prohibition on the reader rather than a caveat. Section 8.2 forbids members to “Copy, use, display or distribute any information (including content) obtained from the Services … without the consent of the content owner”, and separately forbids copying or distributing “the posts or other content of others without their permission”, with in-app sharing carved out.
The YouTube Terms of Service put the permission requirement on the uploader. Content must not include third-party intellectual property “unless you have permission from that party or are otherwise legally entitled to do so”.
The Pinterest Terms of Service put it on the poster too, in section 3(a): “You will only post User Content that you have the rights to post.”
The Instagram Terms of Use and the Meta Terms of Service put it on the poster in the same form. Instagram’s Section 4.2 states: “You represent you own or have obtained all necessary rights to the content you post or share.” The Meta Terms of Service bar sharing anything “That you do not own or have the necessary rights to share”, in Section 3.2. Both read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28.
TikTok’s U.S. Terms of Service are the only document in this set that names the other user as a party who can grant permission for the brand case. Section 3.4 bars using “another user’s content … for commercial purposes unless permitted by TikTok USDS Joint Venture or the user, respectively (including via applicable account settings)”. The other-regions version puts the representation on the poster instead, in Section 7(B), where the poster represents that they own the User Content “or you have received all necessary permissions, clearances from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the content to submit it to the Services”. Both read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28.
What licence does the document describe, and who receives it?
This is where the recurring misreading lives. A licence in the terms of service is not addressed to other users unless the document says it is, and four of the eight documents read here name only the platform as the grantee.
| Document | Grantor | Grantee | Operative words | Date read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| X Terms of Service, Section 3, “Your Rights and Grant of Rights in the Content” | The person who posted | X | “you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) … This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same.” | 2026-08-28 |
| LinkedIn User Agreement, Section 3.1, “Your License to LinkedIn” | The member | LinkedIn and its affiliates | “You grant LinkedIn and our Affiliates the following non-exclusive license to the content and other information you provide”. A later bullet adds that where the audience is set to anyone, “we may enable others to publicly share onto third-party services (e.g., a Member embedding your post on a third party service)”. | 2026-08-28 |
| YouTube Terms of Service, “Rights you Grant” / “License to Other Users” | The person who posted | Each other user of the Service | “only as enabled by a feature of the Service (such as video playback or embeds). For clarity, this license does not grant any rights or permissions for a user to make use of your Content independent of the Service.” | 2026-08-28 |
| Pinterest Terms of Service, Section 3(b) | The person who posted | Pinterest, its affiliates and service providers, and its users | “you grant us and our affiliates and service providers, and our users, a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, store, publicly perform or display, reproduce, save, modify, create derivative works, monetize, download, translate and distribute your User Content”. | 2026-08-28 |
| Instagram Terms of Use, Section 4.3, “Permissions You Give to Us” (read via a browser rendering) | The person who posted | Meta Platforms, Inc. | “you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings).” The same clause states: “We do not claim ownership of your content that you post on or through the Service and you are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want.” | 2026-08-28 |
| Meta Terms of Service, Section 3.3, “The permissions you give us” (read via a browser rendering) | The person who posted | Meta | “you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and worldwide licence to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings).” | 2026-08-28 |
| TikTok U.S. Terms of Service, Section 3.5, “Ownership of content and grant of licenses” (read via a browser rendering) | The person who posted | TikTok USDS Joint Venture, and separately each user of the Platform | To TikTok: a licence that is “non-exclusive, irrevocable, and royalty-free”, “assignable and sub-licensable, including through multiple tiers”, and “worldwide”. To users: “Depending on your Platform usage, including your sharing activities and settings, you also grant to each user of the Platform a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable, worldwide license to use Your Content, including to access, reproduce (e.g. to copy), distribute, share, download, adapt or make derivative works (e.g. to include Your Content in their content), perform, and communicate Your Content to the public (e.g. to display it), in accordance with these Terms.” | 2026-08-28 |
| TikTok Terms of Service for other regions, Section 7(B) (read via a browser rendering) | The person who posted | TikTok, which may authorise others | “you hereby grant us an unconditional irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual worldwide licence to use, modify, adapt, reproduce, make derivative works of, publish and/or transmit, and/or distribute and to authorise other users of the Services and other third-parties to view, access, use, download, modify, adapt, reproduce, make derivative works of, publish and/or transmit your User Content in any format and on any platform, either now known or hereinafter invented.” | 2026-08-28 |
Source note: quotes are the operative fragment of each clause, taken from the version live at the URL on 2026-08-28. The Instagram, Facebook and TikTok clauses were read via a browser rendering of the page, because those pages are client-rendered or were unreachable without a different network path.
X’s licence runs to X, with a sublicensing right. YouTube’s runs to other users and then limits itself to what a Service feature enables. Pinterest’s names users as grantees and, as read on 2026-08-28, does not carry a limitation comparable to YouTube’s “independent of the Service” sentence. LinkedIn’s runs to LinkedIn, with a separate provision that lets other members embed a post whose audience is set to anyone. Instagram’s runs to Meta Platforms, Inc., and the Meta Terms of Service licence runs to Meta.
TikTok’s two versions split the question between them. The U.S. version grants TikTok USDS Joint Venture one licence and each user of the Platform a second one, bounded by the words “in accordance with these Terms”, and those Terms include the Section 3.4 bar on using another user’s content for commercial purposes without permission. The other-regions version grants the licence to TikTok and gives TikTok the right “to authorise other users of the Services and other third-parties” to use the content, which puts the authorisation in TikTok’s hands rather than in the reuser’s.
A freelancer reading one of these pages for the first time usually concludes the licence covers them. On four of the eight documents the named grantee is the platform alone. Three of the other four limit what a user may do by a feature of the service or by the rest of the terms, and Pinterest’s is the one that names users as licensees with no comparable limitation as read on 2026-08-28.
Does the document describe a process for getting permission?
None of the seven platforms describes a permission-request form, flow or product surface in the documents read. X’s display requirements come closest, and what they offer is a review of the requester’s own use rather than a route to the creator: “you may still want to submit your proposed use and context for X review.” The same sentence keeps the creator’s permission separate from X’s.
The LinkedIn User Agreement points at one mechanism the creator can use in advance rather than a request the reuser can send: permission “which they may give by posting under a Creative Commons license”. Section 3.1 makes the same point from the other side, noting that because the member owns the original content, “you may choose to make it available to others, including under the terms of a Creative Commons license”.
TikTok’s U.S. Terms of Service name the user as a party whose permission counts and point at a setting rather than at a request route: commercial use of another user’s content is barred “unless permitted by TikTok USDS Joint Venture or the user, respectively (including via applicable account settings)”. TikTok’s intellectual property document runs the other direction, telling a rightsholder who finds their work in use to “first contact the user for a quick and direct resolution of the matter”. Both read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28. Neither passage is a route a brand can use to ask.
The Instagram Terms of Use and the Meta Terms of Service treat permission only as something the person posting must already hold, and neither document describes a way to obtain it from another user. Read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28.
Platform-native reshare surfaces exist because the platforms built them for reuse, and the help pages describe them in step-by-step detail. A download and re-upload is not one of those surfaces, whatever the caption says.
Where the documents say nothing
A silence is a specific absence in a specific document read on a specific date. It is not a permission and it is not a prohibition. Recorded below are the silences found in the documents actually read, with the date each was read.
| Document | Question or act not addressed | As read on |
|---|---|---|
| X Terms of Service | Crediting or attributing the original poster. A search of the document as read returns zero occurrences of “credit” and zero of “attribution”. | 2026-08-28 |
| X Repost FAQs | What happens to an existing repost when the author later switches the account to protected. The page addresses deletion and suspension and addresses reposting from an already-protected account. It does not address the change of state after the fact. | 2026-08-28 |
| LinkedIn User Agreement | Crediting, attribution, hashtags and screenshots. A search of the document as read returns zero occurrences of any of the four terms in a content-reuse sense. | 2026-08-28 |
| Availability of your content off LinkedIn | What happens to a re-uploaded copy when the author deletes the original. The page states that embeds are deleted with the original. It says nothing about copies. | 2026-08-28 |
| YouTube Terms of Service | Crediting or attributing the original uploader. Zero occurrences of “credit” or “attribution” in the document as read. | 2026-08-28 |
| Pinterest Terms of Service | Whether saving another user’s Pin to a brand board is a commercial use. Section 2(c) requires a business account for commercial purposes and addresses the account type, not the reuse. | 2026-08-28 |
| Meta Platform Terms | Reuse of another user’s post. Zero occurrences of the phrase “user content” in the document as read; Section 2(b) covers the developer’s own content. | 2026-08-28 |
| Instagram Terms of Use | Crediting the original poster, and embedding as an act. Zero occurrences of “credit”, “attribution” or “embed” in the document as read via a browser rendering. | 2026-08-28 |
| Meta Terms of Service | The conditions on Facebook’s own reshare surface. Zero occurrences of “credit”, “attribution”, “embed” or “repost” in the document as read via a browser rendering. Section 3.2 addresses what a member may share, not the surface used to share it. | 2026-08-28 |
| TikTok U.S. Terms of Service | Crediting the creator. Zero occurrences of “credit” or “attribution” in the document as read via a browser rendering. | 2026-08-28 |
| TikTok Terms of Service for other regions | Crediting the creator. The only occurrence of “credit” in the document as read is “credit card numbers” in the Section 5 list of prohibited material, and the only occurrence of “attribution” sits in the Feedback clause at the end of Section 7. Neither concerns reuse of another user’s post. | 2026-08-28 |
| TikTok’s Intellectual Property Policy, at the Copyright Policy URL | Embedding, resharing in-app and re-uploading as distinct acts. The document addresses infringement, reporting and appeals, and the only occurrence of “embed” in the page as read is the “TikTok Embeds” link in the footer. | 2026-08-28 |
| Embed Videos | Permission. Zero occurrences of “permission” or “license” in the document as read; it describes how to obtain and place the embed code and what the player displays. | 2026-08-28 |
| Pinterest Developer and API Terms of Service | Embedding as a named act. Zero occurrences of “embed” in the document as read; widgets appear only inside the definition of “Pinterest Services”, and the widget documentation pages render as a login-gated shell. | 2026-08-28 |
| Every document read here | Whether running a hashtag campaign makes the entries reusable by the brand running it. Zero occurrences of “hashtag” in any terms of service read, including the Instagram, Facebook and TikTok documents rendered on 2026-08-28; the only hashtag references in X’s display requirements are linking rules for rendering post text. | 2026-08-28 |
| Every document read here | Screenshots as an act distinct from downloading. The word appears in two documents and in neither case about capturing another user’s post: the Meta Terms of Service list “screenshots” among the Meta brand assets covered by the Meta brand resources, and the Pinterest Developer and API Terms of Service offer “confirmation screenshots” as evidence of data deletion. | 2026-08-28 |
The documents are not silent on everything. Every platform read here states who owns the content, states the licence and its grantee, and either bars reuse outside its own interfaces or requires permission for it. The gaps sit around the specific tactics brands actually use: the credit line, the tag, the hashtag call for entries, the screenshot.
No inference here about why any document is silent. The silence is recorded and that is the end of it.
Common beliefs the documents do not support
Eight beliefs, each paired to the document read against it and the specific quote or dated absence found there. Beliefs that could not be paired to a document read in this pass were cut rather than softened.
- Crediting the creator makes the repost permitted. The X Terms of Service, the LinkedIn User Agreement and the YouTube Terms of Service contain zero occurrences of “credit” or “attribution” in a reuse sense, as read on 2026-08-28. The Instagram Terms of Use, the Meta Terms of Service and TikTok’s U.S. Terms of Service contain zero occurrences of either word, and TikTok’s other-regions version uses “credit” only in “credit card numbers” and “attribution” only in its Feedback clause, all read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28. The LinkedIn User Agreement conditions reuse on something else entirely: “without the consent of the content owner” (Section 8.2). Credit and consent are different words, and only one of them appears in the documents. The single document in the set that uses the word approvingly is TikTok’s embed documentation, which states that its player “provides proper attribution by showing the video creator, video description and background sound”, and that describes what the player renders rather than a condition on a reuser.
- Tagging the creator counts as asking. X’s Display requirements: Posts require “explicit permission from the user” for promotional use, as read on 2026-08-28. LinkedIn’s Availability of your content off LinkedIn states that “Notifications won’t be sent to the author of the post when you embed their content”, so on that surface the author is not even told. TikTok’s U.S. Terms of Service require the user’s permission for commercial use of that user’s content and point at “applicable account settings” rather than at any notification, read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28. A tag is a notification, and no document read treats a notification as consent.
- A public post is free to use. The YouTube Terms of Service close this directly: the licence to other users applies “only as enabled by a feature of the Service (such as video playback or embeds)”, and “this license does not grant any rights or permissions for a user to make use of your Content independent of the Service.” X’s display requirements say “X does not provide permission to use third party/user content.” LinkedIn’s Section 8.2 requires the content owner’s consent. The Instagram Terms of Use and the Meta Terms of Service grant their licences to Meta rather than to other users. TikTok’s U.S. Terms of Service do grant each user of the Platform a licence to use another user’s content, “in accordance with these Terms”, and the same Terms bar using “another user’s content … for commercial purposes unless permitted by TikTok USDS Joint Venture or the user”, so a brand reading the user licence has to read Section 3.4 with it. Pinterest is the exception in this set: its Section 3(b) names “our users” as licensees and its plain-language summary reads “others can use it and save it”, with no equivalent of YouTube’s limiting sentence as read on 2026-08-28.
- Downloading and re-uploading is the same as resharing in-app. The LinkedIn User Agreement separates the two in one clause: do not copy or distribute the posts of others without their permission, “except through the available sharing functionality” (Section 8.2). The X Terms of Service require the use of “the interfaces and instructions we provide” and describe other reproduction and distribution as “strictly prohibited” (Section 4). TikTok’s other-regions Terms of Service split the same pair across one section: Section 7(B) describes users who “extract all or any portion of User Content created by another user to produce additional User Content” inside the Services, and the same section makes anyone submitting content represent that they own it or “have received all necessary permissions, clearances from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the content”, read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28. Three documents, two different mechanisms, two different outcomes.
- Embedding needs no permission because the platform supplies the code. X supplies the embed code and still writes, in the same document: “permission from the original content creator may still be necessary, as X does not provide permission to use third party/user content.” LinkedIn supplies the embed code and limits it to posts “an author has shared as Public”. YouTube supplies the embed code and routes it, per Embed videos & playlists, to a second agreement: “The YouTube API Terms of Service and Developer Policies apply to all access and use of the YouTube embedded player.” TikTok supplies the embed code through a documentation page that says nothing about permission at all, with zero occurrences of “permission” or “license” in the page as read on 2026-08-28, while its U.S. Terms of Service keep the commercial-use bar on another user’s content in place. Pinterest supplies widgets and buttons, and its Developer and API Terms of Service require “express prior written consent (email is sufficient)” before an application’s primary purpose can be to collect, transfer, share or sell “User Content posted by users other than you or your Customers, such as other users’ boards and Pins”.
- Running a hashtag makes the entries usable. No terms of service read on 2026-08-28 contains the word “hashtag” at all, including the Instagram, Facebook and TikTok documents read via a browser rendering. The only hashtag references found anywhere in this document set are the rendering rules in X’s display requirements, which say hashtags in displayed post text must link to an X search. A hashtag campaign is a marketing mechanic that the governing documents do not mention.
- A screenshot sidesteps the documents. The word “screenshot” appears in two of the documents read, and in neither case about capturing another user’s post: the Meta Terms of Service list screenshots among the Meta brand assets covered by the Meta brand resources, and the Pinterest Developer and API Terms of Service name “confirmation screenshots” as evidence of data deletion. What the documents describe instead are acts. The YouTube Terms of Service restrict anyone from “access, reproduce, download, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display” any Content except as expressly authorized by the Service or with prior written permission. The LinkedIn User Agreement forbids members to “Copy, use, display or distribute any information (including content) obtained from the Services”. TikTok’s other-regions Terms of Service bar making “unauthorised copies” of the Services “or any content included therein” in Section 5, read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28. None of those clauses names a file format, so none of them has a screenshot-shaped hole in it.
- Taking it down on request settles the original use. TikTok’s own help page is the one document in reach that speaks to this, and it says the opposite for its own enforcement: “Deleting your content does not remove strikes, and we may still issue strikes after you delete violative content.” Source: Content violations and bans, retrieved with a real browser on 2026-08-24. TikTok’s Intellectual Property Policy, read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28, addresses removal, repeat infringement and appeals and says nothing about the status of a use that has already happened. No other document read in this pass states that removal on request resolves the earlier use, and none was found that does.
Platform terms and copyright law are two different systems
A platform acts under its own rules. It can remove a post or restrict an account on a report without any legal finding anywhere, and TikTok’s Community Guidelines Enforcement page is explicit that its own review is not a guarantee either: it states that TikTok cannot guarantee that all content complies with its Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. Source: Enforcement, “Released August 14, 2025”, “Effective September 13, 2025”, retrieved with a real browser on 2026-08-24.
A legal position exists whatever a help page says, and it is a separate question from the one this page answers. Each platform publishes its own copyright policy, and each country has its own copyright authority. Read them at the source: X Copyright policy, LinkedIn Copyright Policy, Copyright on YouTube, Pinterest Copyright and Trademark policy, TikTok Intellectual Property Policy, and, for the United States, the U.S. Copyright Office.
Reading the documents yourself
The reading order that produced this page works in reverse for any platform and any post. Start with the act you are about to perform, because that names the document. Embedding sends you to the embed, platform or developer terms. Using the platform’s own reshare button sends you to the terms of service plus the help page for that surface. Downloading and posting again sends you to the terms of service clause on what you upload.
Then find the licence clause and read who the grantee is. On X it is X. On LinkedIn it is LinkedIn. On YouTube it is other users, limited to what a Service feature enables. On Pinterest it is Pinterest, its affiliates and service providers, and its users. On Instagram and on Facebook it is Meta. On TikTok it is TikTok in both regional versions, and the U.S. version adds a second licence to each user of the Platform, bounded by the rest of its terms. Then check whether the document addresses your act at all, because a document that says nothing has told you nothing.
Check the date on the version you read. X publishes two effective dates on one terms page, the YouTube Terms of Service carry an effective date of January 5, 2022 while the YouTube API Services Terms of Service were last updated on 2026-04-28, TikTok publishes two terms of service with two dates, July 15, 2026 for the U.S. version and 1 December 2025 for the other-regions version, and several help pages publish only a relative date such as “Last updated: 11 months ago”. The Instagram Terms of Use publish no date at all as read. These documents change without notice, and a quote without a date is a quote about a version that may no longer exist.
More on the people side of the work, from comments and DMs to creator relationships and moderation, sits in community and creators. The rest of the blog covers the platforms, the craft and the job.
FAQ
Do I need permission to embed someone’s post on our website?
You need to check the embed, platform or developer terms, because that is the document class governing embedding, and the answer differs by platform. X’s Display requirements: Posts state that following the display guidelines “merely to display a post” may remove the need to contact X, then add that “permission from the original content creator may still be necessary, as X does not provide permission to use third party/user content”, and separately bar promotional use without “explicit permission from the user”. LinkedIn’s Availability of your content off LinkedIn permits members to embed and distribute content “if the visibility of the content is set to Anyone” and restricts embedding to posts shared as Public. YouTube’s Embed videos & playlists states that “The YouTube API Terms of Service and Developer Policies apply to all access and use of the YouTube embedded player.” TikTok’s Embed Videos documentation shows how to copy the embed code and states that “A video’s availability is consistent in and outside the TikTok app”, and it says nothing about permission. Pinterest’s Developer and API Terms of Service bring widgets and the Save, Pin It and Follow buttons inside their scope and require Pinterest’s “express prior written consent (email is sufficient)” for an application whose primary purpose is to collect, transfer, share or sell other users’ boards and Pins. All five read on 2026-08-28, the last two via a browser rendering. The Facebook embed terms would answer the same question for Facebook, and that document is not publicly retrievable.
Is sharing a post to my Story the same as posting the video myself?
The documents treat a platform-native reshare and a re-upload as different acts. The LinkedIn User Agreement forbids copying or distributing the posts of others without their permission and then carves out one route: “except through the available sharing functionality” (Section 8.2, read 2026-08-28). The X Terms of Service require you to “use the interfaces and instructions we provide” and describe reproduction and distribution outside them as “strictly prohibited” (Section 4, read 2026-08-28). TikTok’s other-regions Terms of Service describe users extracting “all or any portion of User Content created by another user to produce additional User Content” inside the Services, and in the same section require anyone submitting content to own it or hold “all necessary permissions” for it (Section 7(B), read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28). For Instagram and Facebook Stories specifically, the document that would answer the question is a Meta help page describing the reshare-to-Story surface, and no such page is publicly retrievable: https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511 redirects to the Instagram Terms of Use in a browser, and the Facebook embed terms show a login prompt. The Instagram Terms of Use and the Meta Terms of Service, both read via a browser rendering on 2026-08-28, contain zero occurrences of “repost” and name no Story reshare surface, so this answer names none either.
Does a platform’s terms of service give me a licence to use another user’s post?
You should read who the grantee is in the licence clause, because on six of the seven platforms read here the grantee is the platform, or the licence a user receives is bounded by the platform’s own terms or features. The X Terms of Service grant the licence to X, “with the right to sublicense”. The LinkedIn User Agreement grant it to “LinkedIn and our Affiliates”. The YouTube Terms of Service grant a licence to each other user, then limit it: “only as enabled by a feature of the Service (such as video playback or embeds). For clarity, this license does not grant any rights or permissions for a user to make use of your Content independent of the Service.” The Instagram Terms of Use grant it to Meta Platforms, Inc., and the Meta Terms of Service grant it to Meta. The TikTok U.S. Terms of Service grant one licence to TikTok USDS Joint Venture and a second to “each user of the Platform”, to be used “in accordance with these Terms”, and those Terms bar commercial use of another user’s content without permission; the other-regions version grants TikTok the licence together with the right to authorise other users and third parties. The Pinterest Terms of Service name “our users” among the grantees in Section 3(b) and, as read on 2026-08-28, add no comparable limitation. All read on 2026-08-28, the Instagram, Facebook and TikTok documents via a browser rendering.
The terms say nothing about my situation. What does that mean?
A documented silence means the document you read did not address your act or question on the date you read it. It is not a permission and it is not a prohibition. This page records sixteen such silences with their documents and dates, including the complete absence of the word “hashtag” from every terms of service read on 2026-08-28 and the two documents where “screenshot” appears about something else entirely. Record the document, the section you checked, and the date, and treat the gap as a gap.
How do I tell whether I am reading the current version of a platform’s terms?
You read the date the document publishes about itself, and the practice varies. The X Terms of Service carry two effective dates on one page, April 10, 2026 and January 15, 2026, for different regions. The LinkedIn User Agreement is dated “Effective on November 3, 2025”. The Pinterest Terms of Service carry “Effective date: April 30, 2025”. The YouTube Terms of Service are “Effective as of January 5, 2022” and link a previous version. TikTok publishes one terms of service dated “Last updated: July 15, 2026” for the United States and another dated “Last updated: 1 December 2025” for other regions, and its intellectual property document carries both a released date and an effective date. The Meta Terms of Service are “Effective from 1 January 2025”, while the Instagram Terms of Use publish no date at all as read. Help pages are looser: LinkedIn’s embed article publishes “Last updated: 11 months ago” rather than a date, and the X Repost FAQs publish no date at all. Where the document gives you no date, the only date you have is the one you read it on, which is why every quote here carries one.
Which document should I look at first for a specific platform?
Look at the document class that matches your act, then read the other two for conditions. The terms of service tell you who owns the content, who holds the licence and what the platform bars outright. The embed, platform or developer terms tell you what displaying the post off-platform requires, and on YouTube they are a separate agreement with a separate date. The help pages on resharing describe the surfaces and carry conditions the terms do not mention, such as LinkedIn’s rule that only posts shared as Public can be embedded and X’s rule that protected posts cannot be reposted by anyone.
Internal review date: 6 months from publication. This page is platform-dependent and the documents it quotes change without notice.
Source ledger
Every URL fetched in this session, with the date, the observed HTTP status, and whether the text was readable. All curl requests used a browser user agent, a 20 to 30 second timeout, --compressed, and -L. Meta hosts required --http1.1; over HTTP/2 they returned 400. A second pass on 2026-08-28 rendered the client-rendered and unreachable pages with a real browser, and those renderings are listed in their own table below the main one.
| # | URL | Date fetched | HTTP status | Readable | Cited |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | https://x.com/en/tos | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 63,895 chars | Yes |
| 2 | https://developer.x.com/en/developer-terms/display-requirements | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 8,932 chars | Yes |
| 3 | https://developer.x.com/en/developer-terms/agreement-and-policy | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 28,261 chars | No, superseded by the display requirements page for this page’s question |
| 4 | https://developer.x.com/en/developer-terms/policy | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Not extracted | No |
| 5 | https://help.x.com/en/using-x/repost-faqs | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 10,414 chars | Yes |
| 6 | https://help.x.com/en/rules-and-policies/copyright-policy | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Not extracted, status only | Yes, as a link-out |
| 7 | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 34,042 chars | Yes |
| 8 | https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a529065 | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 4,444 chars | Yes |
| 9 | https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525047 | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 8,320 chars | Yes |
| 10 | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/copyright-policy | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Not extracted, status only | Yes, as a link-out |
| 11 | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/professional-community-policies | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Not extracted | No |
| 12 | https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a566218 | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, wrong article (LinkedIn Pages for global audiences) | No |
| 13 | https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/47539 | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, wrong article (editing published articles) | No |
| 14 | https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a522537 | 2026-08-28 | 404 | Page does not exist | No |
| 15 | https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a565305 | 2026-08-28 | 404 | Page does not exist | No |
| 16 | https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1338671 | 2026-08-28 | 404 | Page does not exist | No |
| 17 | https://www.youtube.com/t/terms | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 24,928 chars | Yes |
| 18 | https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-terms-of-service | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 41,779 chars | Yes |
| 19 | https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780 | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 10,293 chars | Yes |
| 20 | https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/57741 | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 5,499 chars | Yes |
| 21 | https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/policies/copyright/ | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Not extracted, status only | Yes, as a link-out |
| 22 | https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6178631 | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Not extracted | No |
| 23 | https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9315727 | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Not extracted | No |
| 24 | https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797466 | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Not extracted | No |
| 25 | https://policy.pinterest.com/en/terms-of-service | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 13,890 chars after re-fetch with --compressed; the first fetch without it returned gzip bytes | Yes |
| 26 | https://policy.pinterest.com/en/developer-guidelines | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 12,151 chars | Yes |
| 27 | https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/save-pins-on-pinterest | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 1,338 chars | Yes |
| 28 | https://policy.pinterest.com/en/copyright | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Yes, 8,929 chars | Yes, as a link-out |
| 29 | https://developers.pinterest.com/terms_of_service/ | 2026-08-28 | 200 | No, client-rendered shell, 1,675 chars | No. The same document was obtained at https://developers.pinterest.com/terms/ by browser rendering, row 66 below |
| 30 | https://developers.pinterest.com/terms/ | 2026-08-28 | 200 | No, client-rendered shell, 534 chars over the wire, then obtained in full by browser rendering, row 66 below | Yes |
| 31 | https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/web-features/pin-widget/ | 2026-08-28 | 200 | No, client-rendered shell, 2,622 chars | No |
| 32 | https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/web-features/save-overview/ | 2026-08-28 | 200 | No, client-rendered shell, 2,684 chars | No |
| 33 | https://help.pinterest.com/en/business/article/save-button | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Partial, 2,579 chars, mostly navigation | No |
| 34 | https://policy.pinterest.com/en/business-terms-of-service | 2026-08-28 | 404 | Page does not exist | No |
| 35 | https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/save-pins | 2026-08-28 | 404 | Page does not exist | No |
| 36 | https://help.pinterest.com/en/business/article/embed-pins-and-boards | 2026-08-28 | 404 | Page does not exist | No |
| 37 | https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/report-copyright-infringement | 2026-08-28 | 404 | Page does not exist | No |
| 38 | https://business.pinterest.com/business-terms-of-service/ | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Not extracted | No |
| 39 | https://developers.facebook.com/terms/ | 2026-08-28 | 400 over HTTP/2, then 200 over HTTP/1.1 | Yes, 44,625 chars | Yes |
| 40 | https://www.facebook.com/terms.php | 2026-08-28 | 400 over HTTP/2, then 200 over HTTP/1.1 | No, client-rendered shell, 42 chars over the wire, then obtained in full by browser rendering, row 65 below | Yes |
| 41 | https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870 | 2026-08-28 | 400 over HTTP/2, then 200 over HTTP/1.1 | No, client-rendered shell, 17 chars over the wire, then obtained in full by browser rendering, row 64 below | Yes |
| 42 | https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511 | 2026-08-28 | 400 over HTTP/2, then 200 over HTTP/1.1 | No, client-rendered shell, 17 chars; in a browser the URL redirects to the Terms of Use page, row 72 below | No, recorded as a scoped absence |
| 43 | https://www.facebook.com/legal/embed_terms | 2026-08-28 | 400 over HTTP/2, then 200 over HTTP/1.1 | No, client-rendered shell, 14 chars; in a browser the page shows “This content isn’t available” with a login prompt, row 73 below | No, recorded as a scoped absence |
| 44 | https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms | 2026-08-28 | 400 | Host rejected the request | No |
| 45 | https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/plain_text_terms | 2026-08-28 | 400 | Host rejected the request | No |
| 46 | https://mbasic.facebook.com/legal/terms/plain_text_terms | 2026-08-28 | 400 | Host rejected the request | No |
| 47 | https://m.facebook.com/terms.php | 2026-08-28 | 400 | Host rejected the request | No |
| 48 | https://www.instagram.com/legal/terms/updated/ | 2026-08-28 | 404 | Page does not exist | No |
| 49 | https://developers.facebook.com/terms/dfc_platform_terms/ | 2026-08-28 | 400 | Host rejected the request | No |
| 50 | https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en | 2026-08-28 | 000 | Connection timed out after 20s over HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1, then obtained in full by browser rendering on a different network path, row 67 below | Yes |
| 51 | https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/row/terms-of-service/en | 2026-08-28 | 000 | Connection timed out, then obtained in full by browser rendering, row 68 below | Yes |
| 52 | https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/global/terms-of-service/en | 2026-08-28 | 000 | Connection timed out | No |
| 53 | https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/global/copyright-policy/en | 2026-08-28 | 000 | Connection timed out, then obtained in full by browser rendering, row 69 below. The page is headed “Intellectual Property Policy” | Yes |
| 54 | https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/global/intellectual-property-policy/en | 2026-08-28 | 000 to curl, then a TikTok 404 page when rendered in a browser | Rendered, and the page returned is TikTok’s own 404 notice, row 71 below | No. The live intellectual property document is served at the Copyright Policy URL, row 69, and the reference on this page is corrected to it |
| 55 | https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/embed-videos | 2026-08-28 | 000 | Connection timed out, then obtained in full by browser rendering, row 70 below | Yes |
| 56 | https://support.tiktok.com/en/using-tiktok/exploring-videos/sharing-videos | 2026-08-28 | 000 | Connection timed out; in a browser the page returns navigation text only, row 74 below | No, recorded as a scoped absence |
| 57 | https://support.tiktok.com/en/using-tiktok/creating-videos/duet-and-stitch | 2026-08-28 | 000 | Connection timed out; in a browser the page returns navigation text only, row 75 below | No, recorded as a scoped absence |
| 58 | https://support.tiktok.com/en/safety-hc/report-a-problem/report-intellectual-property-infringement | 2026-08-28 | 000 | Connection timed out; in a browser the page returns navigation text only, row 76 below | No |
| 59 | https://tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en | 2026-08-28 | 000 | Connection timed out | No |
| 60 | https://www.copyright.gov/ | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Not extracted, status only | Yes, as a link-out |
| 61 | https://blog.recurpost.com/category/community-creators/ | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Not extracted, status only | Yes, internal link |
| 62 | https://blog.recurpost.com/ | 2026-08-28 | 200 | Not extracted, status only | Yes, internal link |
| 63 | https://recurpost.com/blog/how-to-repost-on-facebook/ | 2026-08-28 | 410 | Gone: the old recurpost.com page on this topic is retired, so two RecurPost-owned pages are not answering the same query | No, and never to be linked |
Browser renderings, 2026-08-28. The pages below are client-rendered or were unreachable over the wire, and were read with a real browser on 2026-08-28. Each rendering is held as the full visible text of the page. Every quote attributed to these documents on this page comes from these renderings, and each such quote says so where it appears.
| # | URL | Document as headed on the page | Date rendered | Method | Readable | Cited |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870 | Terms of Use (Instagram) | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | Yes, full text | Yes |
| 65 | https://www.facebook.com/terms.php | Meta Terms of Service, “Effective from 1 January 2025” | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | Yes, full text | Yes |
| 66 | https://developers.pinterest.com/terms/ | Developer and API Terms of Service, “Last Updated : August 2026” | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | Yes, full text | Yes |
| 67 | https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en | U.S. Terms of Service, “Last updated: July 15, 2026” | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | Yes, full text | Yes |
| 68 | https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/row/terms-of-service/en | Terms of Service for other regions, “Last updated: 1 December 2025” | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | Yes, full text | Yes |
| 69 | https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/global/copyright-policy/en | Intellectual Property Policy, “Released March 27, 2025”, “Effective April 26, 2025” | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | Yes, full text | Yes |
| 70 | https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/embed-videos | Embed Videos, “Last updated August 4, 2026” | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | Yes, full text | Yes |
| 71 | https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/global/intellectual-property-policy/en | TikTok 404 page | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | Rendered, and the page is TikTok’s own 404 notice | No. Recorded as the reason the reference on this page points at row 69 |
| 72 | https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511 | Redirects to the Instagram Terms of Use | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | No sharing-article text exists to read | No, recorded as a scoped absence |
| 73 | https://www.facebook.com/legal/embed_terms | “This content isn’t available”, with a login prompt | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | No | No, recorded as a scoped absence |
| 74 | https://support.tiktok.com/en/using-tiktok/exploring-videos/sharing-videos | Help Center article shell | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | No, navigation text only; the article pane does not render | No, recorded as a scoped absence |
| 75 | https://support.tiktok.com/en/using-tiktok/creating-videos/duet-and-stitch | Help Center article shell | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | No, navigation text only | No, recorded as a scoped absence |
| 76 | https://support.tiktok.com/en/safety-hc/report-a-problem/report-intellectual-property-infringement | Help Center article shell | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | No, navigation text only | No |
| 77 | https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/web-features/pin-widget/ and https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/web-features/save-overview/ | Pinterest widget and save developer documentation | 2026-08-28 | Browser rendering | No, login-gated shell | No, recorded as a scoped absence |
Local capture used, not fetched in this session. Five TikTok pages were rendered with a real browser on 2026-08-24. Two are cited on this page, at their canonical URLs, with retrieval date 2026-08-24:
- https://support.tiktok.com/en/safety-hc/account-and-user-safety/content-violations-and-bans, retrieved 2026-08-24. Cited in belief 8. Returned HTTP 000 to curl on 2026-08-28.
- https://www.tiktok.com/community-guidelines/en/enforcement, “Released August 14, 2025”, “Effective September 13, 2025”, retrieved 2026-08-24. Cited in the terms-and-law block. Returned HTTP 000 to curl on 2026-08-28.
Zero statistics appear on this page, so the two-year primary-source rule for statistics has nothing to bind. Document effective dates are stated as the documents publish them, including the YouTube Terms of Service date of January 5, 2022, which is the current published version at that URL and not a statistic.
