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This provision allocates intellectual property risk between Anthropic and customers by establishing Anthropic's defense obligation for core authorized use while carving out categories where customers bear the risk exposure. The scope and limitations of indemnification directly affect each party's cost exposure for third-party IP disputes.
Customers receive IP indemnification coverage for claims arising from compliant use of Services and generated outputs, but this coverage excludes claims tied to customer modifications, integrations with third-party systems, customer-provided data, or commercial trademark use of outputs. Customers remain liable for claims in these excluded categories.
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"Anthropic will defend Customer and its personnel, successors, and assigns from and against any Customer Claim (as defined below) and indemnify them for any judgment that a court of competent jurisdiction grants a third party on such Customer Claim or that an arbitrator awards a third party under any Anthropic-approved settlement of such Customer Claim. "Customer Claim" means a third-party claim, suit, or proceeding alleging that Customer's paid use of the Services (which includes data Anthropic has used to train a model that is part of the Services) in accordance with these Terms or Outputs generated through such authorized use violates any third-party intellectual property right. Additionally, Anthropic's defense and indemnification obligations will not apply to the extent the Customer Claim arises from: (a) modifications made by Customer to the Services or Outputs; (b) the combination of the Services or Outputs with technology or content not provided by Anthropic; (c) Inputs or other data provided by Customer; (d) use of the Services or Outputs in a manner that Customer knows or reasonably should know violates or infringes the rights of others; (e) the practice of a patented invention contained in an Output; or (f) an alleged violation of trademark based on use of an Output in trade or commerce.Excerpt from Anthropic's Commercial Terms
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This provision allocates intellectual property risk between Anthropic and customers by establishing Anthropic's defense obligation for core authorized use while carving out categories where customers bear the risk exposure. The scope and limitations of indemnification directly affect each party's cost exposure for third-party IP disputes.
Customers receive IP indemnification coverage for claims arising from compliant use of Services and generated outputs, but this coverage excludes claims tied to customer modifications, integrations with third-party systems, customer-provided data, or commercial trademark use of outputs. Customers remain liable for claims in these excluded categories.
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