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The provision establishes Character.AI's operational authority to incorporate user-generated content into service operations, product improvement, and commercial activities without ongoing compensation or user approval for each use. The perpetual and irrevocable nature means these rights remain in effect regardless of whether the user continues using the service or requests removal.
Users retain ownership of submitted content but authorize Character.AI to use that content for any service-related purpose, including remixing by other users and sharing with third parties through contractual relationships. Once submitted, users cannot revoke Character.AI's license to use, modify, or commercialize the content.
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By making any User Content available to Calm, 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, publicly perform, and distrib...
By submitting User Material you hereby grant Headspace an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide license to use, telecast, copy, perform, display, edit, distribute and otherwise exploit the User Material you post on the Products, or any portion thereof, and any ideas, concept...
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"When you submit such content, you retain whatever ownership rights in that content you had to begin with. You grant Character.AI, to the fullest extent permitted under the law, a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, transmit, make available, store, modify, exploit, commercialize and otherwise use the content for any Character.AI-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed, including without limitation to operate, improve and provide the Services. You agree that these rights and licenses include a right for Character.AI to allow other users of the Services to create content that 'remixes,' or otherwise uses portions of, the content you submitted. You agree that these rights and licenses also include a right for Character.AI to make the content available to, and pass these rights along to, others with whom we have contractual relationships, and to otherwise permit access to or disclose the content to third parties if we determine such access is or may be necessary or appropriate.— Excerpt from Character.AI's Character.ai Terms of Service
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The provision establishes Character.AI's operational authority to incorporate user-generated content into service operations, product improvement, and commercial activities without ongoing compensation or user approval for each use. The perpetual and irrevocable nature means these rights remain in effect regardless of whether the user continues using the service or requests removal.
Users retain ownership of submitted content but authorize Character.AI to use that content for any service-related purpose, including remixing by other users and sharing with third parties through contractual relationships. Once submitted, users cannot revoke Character.AI's license to use, modify, or commercialize the content.
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