“By submitting Your Content, you grant Ancestry a non-exclusive, sub-licensable, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, index, copy, publish, distribute, provide access to, create derivative works of, and otherwise use Your Content...”
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The license is broad in both geographic scope and permitted uses, including the creation of derivative works, meaning submitted content can be transformed and redistributed by Ancestry without additional payment.
Submitting any content to Ancestry automatically grants Ancestry this broad license over that content, with no payment owed to the user.
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"By submitting Your Content, you grant Ancestry a non-exclusive, sub-licensable, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, index, copy, publish, distribute, provide access to, create derivative works of, and otherwise use Your Content...Excerpt from Ancestry's Terms and Conditions
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The license is broad in both geographic scope and permitted uses, including the creation of derivative works, meaning submitted content can be transformed and redistributed by Ancestry without additional payment.
Submitting any content to Ancestry automatically grants Ancestry this broad license over that content, with no payment owed to the user.
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