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Calm can use, sublicense, and modify User Content globally for free, and the transferable and sublicensable nature means third parties may also use that content under this license.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains an ellipsis before 'your User Content', suggesting additional licensed activities are present in the full clause that are not quoted here. The canonical claim is limited to the rights explicitly listed in the excerpt.
Users who submit content grant Calm broad rights to use and modify that content worldwide at no cost to Calm and with no compensation to the user.
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"you hereby grant to Calm a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free, license to use, store, publish, translate, reproduce, adapt, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, publicly display...your User Content...without compensation to youExcerpt from Calm's Terms of Service
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Calm can use, sublicense, and modify User Content globally for free, and the transferable and sublicensable nature means third parties may also use that content under this license.
Users who submit content grant Calm broad rights to use and modify that content worldwide at no cost to Calm and with no compensation to the user.
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