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"By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your content, you grant Best Buy a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content.Excerpt from Best Buy's Terms of Use
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The clause grants Best Buy broad rights to exploit submitted content across all formats and channels without ongoing compensation to the user. The perpetual and sublicensable nature of the license means Best Buy retains these rights indefinitely and may authorize third parties to exercise them.
Product reviews, photos, or other content you submit to BestBuy.com become available to Best Buy for commercial use in perpetuity, including in marketing materials, without any requirement for Best Buy to notify you or pay you for that use.
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