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The clause creates a bifurcated ownership structure where user-generated content remains owned by users, but Afterpay obtains comprehensive exploitation rights in perpetuity without time limitation or additional compensation, enabling ongoing commercial use of user content across current and future AI products and services.
Users grant Afterpay broad authority to modify, commercialize, and relicense their content indefinitely once submitted, while retaining nominal ownership. The irrevocable and perpetual nature of the license means these rights do not expire even if the user ceases using the service or requests content deletion.
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"As between you and Afterpay, to the extent permitted by law and subject to the applicable terms, you own your AI Content. You grant us and our subsidiaries, affiliates, and successors a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable, irrevocable, perpetual, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your AI Content throughout the world in any media for any reason, including to provide, promote, and/or incorporate into the AI Products. You retain all rights in your Inputs and Outputs, subject to the rights you granted to us in these terms.— Excerpt from Afterpay's Afterpay Terms of Service
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The clause creates a bifurcated ownership structure where user-generated content remains owned by users, but Afterpay obtains comprehensive exploitation rights in perpetuity without time limitation or additional compensation, enabling ongoing commercial use of user content across current and future AI products and services.
Users grant Afterpay broad authority to modify, commercialize, and relicense their content indefinitely once submitted, while retaining nominal ownership. The irrevocable and perpetual nature of the license means these rights do not expire even if the user ceases using the service or requests content deletion.
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