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Users have no property rights in Service Provided Content, meaning Activision may remove or alter it without compensating users, and pricing for such content carries no real-currency value.
Interpretive note: The canonical claim merges two related but independent propositions (no property interest; price is not real currency). The primary proposition is the absence of ownership; the currency point is recorded in omitted_material for strict compliance but is reflected in the claim given the clause's structure.
Users cannot claim ownership of or a property interest in Service Provided Content, and any amount paid for it does not entitle users to a credit balance of real currency or its equivalent.
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By uploading Your Content, you represent and warrant to us that you have all necessary rights and licenses to do so and automatically grant us a license to use Your Content as provided under Section 7 below.
The copying, redistribution, use or publication by you of any part of the Services, unless expressly permitted in this Agreement, is strictly prohibited.
The Microsoft Services Agreement says "Your Content remains Your Content"...We don't own the original stuff that you create.
"you do not in fact own or have any property interest in the "Service Provided Content" and the price of any "Service Provided Content" does not refer to any credit balance of real currency or its equivalent.Excerpt from Activision's Terms of Use
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Users have no property rights in Service Provided Content, meaning Activision may remove or alter it without compensating users, and pricing for such content carries no real-currency value.
Users cannot claim ownership of or a property interest in Service Provided Content, and any amount paid for it does not entitle users to a credit balance of real currency or its equivalent.
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