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The provision establishes Amazon's operational rights to exploit user-generated content across all platforms and media without compensation or time limitation. The sublicensable nature permits Amazon to extend these rights to third parties.
Users who submit content to Amazon automatically grant the company broad rights to repurpose that content without additional compensation. The perpetual and irrevocable terms mean this authorization does not expire and cannot be withdrawn after submission.
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By making any User Content available to Calm, you hereby grant to Calm a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free, license to use, store, publish, translate, reproduce, adapt, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, publicly display, publicly perform, and distrib...
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By submitting or posting User 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 User Content in any and all media or distribu...
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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 provision establishes Amazon's operational rights to exploit user-generated content across all platforms and media without compensation or time limitation. The sublicensable nature permits Amazon to extend these rights to third parties.
Users who submit content to Amazon automatically grant the company broad rights to repurpose that content without additional compensation. The perpetual and irrevocable terms mean this authorization does not expire and cannot be withdrawn after submission.
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