Compare platform discretion governance provisions between TikTok and Threads. Provisions are extracted from monitored governance documents and classified by severity.
The agreement states this license is irrevocable and explicitly covers training, testing, and improving machine learning models and algorithms, meaning content you post may be used for AI development purposes without additional compensation or the ability to revoke consent after posting.
Consumer impact
This provision authorizes TikTok to use videos, images, messages, and AI prompt inputs you submit for AI model training on an irrevocable, royalty-free basis sublicensable to service providers and business partners, with no compensation obligation to users.
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By creating, inputting, publishing, and otherwise providing Your Content on or to the Platform, you grant to TikTok USDS Joint Venture a license to use Your Content that is: non-exclusive, irrevocable, and royalty-free (you retain the rights to use Your Content elsewhere, although we don't owe you any payments for sharing Your Content with us) assignable and sub-licensable, including through multiple tiers (so we can, for example, work with service providers and business partners to help distribute Your Content); and worldwide (so we can show your content to a global audience). Our license to use Your Content includes our rights to access, reproduce (e.g. to copy), distribute, share, download, adapt or make derivative works (e.g. to translate and/or create captions), perform, and communicate Your Content to the public (e.g. to display it), for the purposes of operating, improving, and providing the Platform and developing new technologies (including training, testing, and improving our machine learning models and algorithms) and services for TikTok USDS Joint Venture and our service providers and business partners, consistent with these Terms and subject to your Platform settings.
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The license the agreement asserts is broad in geographic scope (worldwide), sublicensable (meaning Meta can grant these rights to third parties), and covers derivative works, meaning Meta can modify your content and use those modified versions across its services.
Consumer impact
The terms authorize Meta to reproduce, modify, distribute, and create derivative works from content users post on Threads, and to sublicense those rights, which means user content may be used in ways that extend beyond the original posting context, including across other Meta products and potentially by third-party partners.
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No opt-out available
Actual clause text
By posting content on Threads, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, 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 settings and in accordance with this policy.
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