Amazon grants users a limited, personal, non-commercial, non-transferable license to access its services, explicitly excluding data scraping, commercial use, price collection, and derivative works. The software terms additionally prohibit reverse engineering, decompilation, and attempts to extract model parameters or weights.
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This provision establishes that all access to Amazon Services is conditioned on non-commercial personal use only, with explicit prohibitions on data mining and price collection, and separately prohibits reverse engineering of Amazon Software including AI model components, which has significant implications for developer and research use cases.
⚠ Licenses granted by Amazon terminate automatically upon non-compliance with these access restrictions as stated in the terms
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Compare across platforms →"Subject to your compliance with these Conditions of Use and any Service Terms, and your payment of any applicable fees, Amazon or its content providers grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and make personal and non-commercial use of the Amazon Services. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of any Amazon Service, or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of any Amazon Service or its contents; any downloading, copying, or other use of account information for the benefit of any third party; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble, tamper with, apply any other process or procedure to derive the source code or other underlying components (such as a model, model parameters, or model weights), or bypass any security associated with the Amazon Software, whether in whole or in part.Excerpt from Amazon's Conditions of Use
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The prohibition on data scraping and price collection may interact with the CFAA in the U.S., though the enforceability of access restrictions against scraping under the CFAA remains contested following hiQ Labs …
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This provision establishes that all access to Amazon Services is conditioned on non-commercial personal use only, with explicit prohibitions on data mining and price collection, and separately prohibits reverse engineering of Amazon Software including AI model components, which has significant implications for developer and research use cases.
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