Compare platform discretion governance provisions between Tiktok-Ads and TikTok. Provisions are extracted from monitored governance documents and classified by severity.
The clause establishes a unilateral intellectual property assignment mechanism whereby user-generated feedback becomes available for corporate development and deployment without contractual limitations on scope, duration, or use case. This operationalizes feedback collection as an unrestricted input source for platform and service development.
Consumer impact
Users who submit feedback grant TikTok irrevocable, royalty-free rights to incorporate ideas into products and services, with no requirement that TikTok acknowledge the source, implement suggestions, or provide compensation. The terms permit TikTok to develop proprietary intellectual property based on submitted feedback while users retain no ownership interest in resulting developments.
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Actual clause text
If you choose to submit comments, ideas, or feedback to us, you give us permission to use them in connection with the Platform and any other services that we choose, for any purpose, without any restriction or compensation to you. You agree that we do not have to consider or act on them, return them, or keep them confidential. We will own all rights in anything we develop based on your comments, ideas, or feedback.
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