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This clause allocates intellectual property rights in user-generated content, enabling Acorns to incorporate user submissions into service operations, marketing materials, and other business functions without additional compensation or per-instance authorization requirements.
By submitting content to the platform, users authorize Acorns to use that content broadly across its operations and media channels. The non-exclusive nature permits users to retain rights to the same content, but the royalty-free structure means Acorns incurs no payment obligation for such use.
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By submitting, posting, or displaying content through the Services, you grant Gusto a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, and distribute such content solely for the purposes of providing and improving the Services.
By posting or submitting content to Eventbrite, you grant Eventbrite a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform your content in connection with the services and Eventbrite's busine...
By submitting, posting or displaying content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such content in any and all media or distri...
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"By submitting, posting or displaying content on or through the Services, you grant Acorns a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such content in any and all media or distribution methods.— Excerpt from Acorns's Acorns Terms of Service
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This clause allocates intellectual property rights in user-generated content, enabling Acorns to incorporate user submissions into service operations, marketing materials, and other business functions without additional compensation or per-instance authorization requirements.
By submitting content to the platform, users authorize Acorns to use that content broadly across its operations and media channels. The non-exclusive nature permits users to retain rights to the same content, but the royalty-free structure means Acorns incurs no payment obligation for such use.
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