In Niantic’s ToS, Section 5.2 outlines the license you grant to Niantic when you submit user content. The relevant excerpt states:
“By making any User Content available through Services you hereby grant to Niantic a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, publicly display, publicly perform, market, promote, and distribute your User Content in connection with operating and providing the Services.”
This section specifies that the license is:
• Non-exclusive: You retain ownership and can use your content elsewhere.
• Transferable: Niantic can transfer the license to another party.
• Sublicensable: Niantic can grant sublicenses to others.
• Worldwide: The license applies globally.
• Royalty-free: Niantic doesn’t owe you payment for using your content.
• Perpetual: The license has no expiration.