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This clause establishes the intellectual property framework governing user-generated content on Amazon's platforms. By specifying the scope of Amazon's rights through a sublicensable grant, the provision determines what uses Amazon and its partners may make of posted material without obtaining separate authorization from the content creator.
Users operate under terms whereby posting or submitting content to Amazon platforms results in automatic transfer of broad usage rights to Amazon in perpetuity. The sublicensable nature of the grant means Amazon may authorize third parties to exercise these same rights over the user's content without additional permission.
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By making available any Member Content on or through the Airbnb Platform, you hereby grant to Airbnb a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual (or for the term of the protection), sub-licensable and transferable license to such Member Content to access, use, store, copy, modif...
you hereby grant to Spotify a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully paid, irrevocable, worldwide license to reproduce, make available, perform and display, translate, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, and otherwise use any such User Content through any mediu...
You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours. However, when you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Descript (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host,...
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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. You grant Amazon and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose.— Excerpt from Amazon's Amazon Conditions of Use
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This clause establishes the intellectual property framework governing user-generated content on Amazon's platforms. By specifying the scope of Amazon's rights through a sublicensable grant, the provision determines what uses Amazon and its partners may make of posted material without obtaining separate authorization from the content creator.
Users operate under terms whereby posting or submitting content to Amazon platforms results in automatic transfer of broad usage rights to Amazon in perpetuity. The sublicensable nature of the grant means Amazon may authorize third parties to exercise these same rights over the user's content without additional permission.
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