If you share ideas, bug reports, or suggestions about improving Cursor with Anysphere, the company can use those ideas in any way it chooses without paying you or needing your further permission.
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This provision grants Anysphere an unrestricted, royalty-free license to use any user-provided feedback about the Service, which is a standard clause in software agreements but means users have no claim to compensation or attribution for ideas that are incorporated into the product.
Users who submit feedback, suggestions, or improvement ideas to Anysphere grant the company the right to use that feedback without restriction or compensation; this applies to informal communications such as support tickets or forum posts that constitute feedback about the Service.
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"We appreciate the thoughts and comments from our users. If you choose to provide input and suggestions regarding existing functionalities, problems with or proposed modifications or improvements to the Service ("Feedback"), then you grant Anysphere the right to exploit the Feedback without restriction or compensation to you.Excerpt from Cursor's Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Feedback license clauses are standard in software and platform agreements and do not typically implicate specific regulatory frameworks.
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This provision grants Anysphere an unrestricted, royalty-free license to use any user-provided feedback about the Service, which is a standard clause in software agreements but means users have no claim to compensation or attribution for ideas that are incorporated into the product.
Users who submit feedback, suggestions, or improvement ideas to Anysphere grant the company the right to use that feedback without restriction or compensation; this applies to informal communications such as support tickets or forum posts that constitute feedback about the Service.
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