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The clause grants Amazon broad operational rights to user-generated content without time limitation or compensation obligation. The sublicensing authority permits Amazon to authorize third parties to exercise these same rights, and the perpetual term means these rights extend indefinitely regardless of account status or content removal.
Users grant Amazon expansive rights to their submitted content, including modification and derivative work creation, without geographic restriction or reversion. The terms apply these rights as written upon content submission and remain in effect even if content is subsequently deleted from the platform.
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"If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Amazon a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media.— Excerpt from Amazon's Amazon Conditions of Use
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The clause grants Amazon broad operational rights to user-generated content without time limitation or compensation obligation. The sublicensing authority permits Amazon to authorize third parties to exercise these same rights, and the perpetual term means these rights extend indefinitely regardless of account status or content removal.
Users grant Amazon expansive rights to their submitted content, including modification and derivative work creation, without geographic restriction or reversion. The terms apply these rights as written upon content submission and remain in effect even if content is subsequently deleted from the platform.
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