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This provision establishes a contractual boundary on permissible service use by conditioning continued access on compliance with third-party intellectual property protections. It operates as an enforceable usage covenant within the AWS service agreement and creates a basis for Amazon to suspend or terminate service access for violations.
Users operating under this provision are contractually obligated to ensure their use of AWS services does not infringe intellectual property rights or facilitate such infringement by others. Violation of this restriction exposes users to service termination or suspension procedures outlined in the AWS Acceptable Use Policy enforcement mechanisms.
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You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
You must not, and must not allow others to: Facilitate illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services; Cause harm to us or others through the End User Services;
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"You may not use, or facilitate or allow others to use, the Services to violate, or encourage the violation of, the legal rights of others (for example, to infringe patents, copyrights, trademarks, or trade secrets, or rights of privacy or publicity).— Excerpt from Amazon's AWS Acceptable Use Policy
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This provision establishes a contractual boundary on permissible service use by conditioning continued access on compliance with third-party intellectual property protections. It operates as an enforceable usage covenant within the AWS service agreement and creates a basis for Amazon to suspend or terminate service access for violations.
Users operating under this provision are contractually obligated to ensure their use of AWS services does not infringe intellectual property rights or facilitate such infringement by others. Violation of this restriction exposes users to service termination or suspension procedures outlined in the AWS Acceptable Use Policy enforcement mechanisms.
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