“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...”
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The license is irrevocable and perpetual, meaning Afterpay retains the right to use, reproduce, modify, and adapt the user's content indefinitely and across any transferee or sub-licensee, with no ability for the user to revoke it.
Interpretive note: The excerpt ends mid-sentence after 'publish', indicating that additional licensed acts (e.g., distribute, display, or perform) are present in the full clause but not available in the provided excerpt. The canonical claim and derived fields reflect only the acts explicitly quoted.
A reader who submits content to Afterpay's AI Products grants Afterpay and its subsidiaries, affiliates, and successors a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, and adapt that content.
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"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...Excerpt from Afterpay's Terms of Service
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The license is irrevocable and perpetual, meaning Afterpay retains the right to use, reproduce, modify, and adapt the user's content indefinitely and across any transferee or sub-licensee, with no ability for the user to revoke it.
A reader who submits content to Afterpay's AI Products grants Afterpay and its subsidiaries, affiliates, and successors a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, and adapt that content.
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