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This license establishes the operational scope for how Bluesky may utilize user-generated content across platform development, service delivery, and marketing activities. The non-exclusive structure permits users to retain independent rights to their content while enabling the platform to integrate such content into core service functions and future products.
By sharing content on Bluesky, users authorize the platform to use that content for service operation, display, and promotional purposes without additional compensation. Users retain ownership of their content and can withdraw sharing, but the license permits Bluesky to modify and display content across different formats and media channels unless users restrict sharing settings.
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"By sharing Content on Bluesky, you grant us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to: Operate and Improve Services: Use your Content to develop, operate, and enhance Bluesky, the AT Protocol, and future products and services. [...] Adapt and Display Content: Reproduce, modify, adapt, distribute, and publicly display your Content in any format or media. For example, we may resize content for different devices or feature user posts in promotional materials. [...] We will never sell your Content without getting your permission first.— Excerpt from Bluesky's Bluesky Terms of Service
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This license establishes the operational scope for how Bluesky may utilize user-generated content across platform development, service delivery, and marketing activities. The non-exclusive structure permits users to retain independent rights to their content while enabling the platform to integrate such content into core service functions and future products.
By sharing content on Bluesky, users authorize the platform to use that content for service operation, display, and promotional purposes without additional compensation. Users retain ownership of their content and can withdraw sharing, but the license permits Bluesky to modify and display content across different formats and media channels unless users restrict sharing settings.
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