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The Microsoft Services Agreement says "Your Content remains Your Content"...We don't own the original stuff that you create.
You retain ownership rights in your Content.
You represent and warrant that you own the User Content submitted...and otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth herein...does not and will not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark rights...
"each was created by the user and the user is the sole owner of all content posted to Services sites and all rights in such content (except for public domain content), including, without limitation, copyright...Excerpt from Chegg's Terms of Use
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The clause states: “each was created by the user and the user is the sole owner of all content posted to Services sites and all rights in such content (except for public domain content), including, without limitation, copyright...”
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