I have a website (hosted in the US) where users can publish their content. Per my terms of service, the users license their content to me so that I have the right to
- use,
- copy,
- cache,
- publish,
- display,
- distribute,
- modify,
- store, and
- create derivative works of
this content.
Do these rights allow me to license this content under a public copyright license? Or would the list in my ToS have to explicitly contain "to (publicly) license"?
Example
Currently, I would display a user-generated poem (authored and uploaded by the user named Matsuo Bashō) like this:
Old pond
frogs jumped in
sound of waterAuthor: Matsuo Bashō
If I’m allowed to license the poem, I would display it like this:
Old pond
frogs jumped in
sound of waterAuthor: Matsuo Bashō
License: CC BY-SA 4.0