If you send Databricks any ideas, feedback, or suggestions through their websites, those submissions become Databricks' property immediately, they can use them in any way they like, and you are not entitled to any payment or credit.
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The provision eliminates confidentiality expectations for voluntary Submissions and grants Databricks unrestricted ownership and usage rights. This clarifies the company's legal standing to incorporate, develop, or publicly disclose user-submitted ideas without contractual obligations to the submitter.
Users who submit feedback or ideas through Databricks websites permanently transfer those submissions to Databricks and waive any right to compensation, meaning even commercially valuable ideas shared informally through web forms are covered by this clause.
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If you provide Meta with any feedback or suggestions regarding the Llama Materials ('Feedback'), you hereby grant Meta a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid-up license to use and incorporate such Feedback into the Llama Materials and Meta's other products and services.
We appreciate feedback, including ideas and suggestions for improvement or rating an Output in response to an Input ("Feedback"). If you rate an Output in response to an Input—for example, by using the thumbs up/thumbs down icon—we will store the related conversation as part of your Feedback. You ha...
To the extent you provide us any suggestions, recommendations, or other feedback relating to the Service or to any other xAI products or services (collectively, "Feedback"), you hereby assign to us all rights (including all intellectual property rights), title, and interest in and to the Feedback. A...
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"If you submit any ideas, suggestions, documents, and/or proposals ("Submissions") to Databricks through the Sites, you acknowledge and agree that: (a) your Submissions do not contain confidential or proprietary information; (b) Databricks is not under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the Submissions; (c) Databricks shall be entitled to use or disclose (or choose not to use or disclose) such Submissions for any purpose, in any way, in any media worldwide; (d) Databricks may have something similar to the Submissions already under consideration or in development; (e) your Submissions automatically become the property of Databricks without any obligation of Databricks to you; and (f) you are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from Databricks under any circumstances.— Excerpt from Databricks's Databricks Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The feedback assignment clause is common in commercial technology website terms, but the statement that 'your Submissions automatically become the property of Databricks' may interact with applicable intellectual property law in jurisdictions that require explicit written assignment for IP transfers. In the EU, certain moral rights protections may not be fully waivable by contract depending on applicable member state law. The FTC's general authority over unfair contract terms is relevant if the clause operates in a way that is deceptive regarding the scope of rights transfer. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The clause is broadly drafted to cover any submission type and explicitly states that Databricks owes no confidentiality obligation. For enterprise customers whose employees interact with Databricks web properties, there is a risk that inadvertent disclosure of proprietary methodologies or business-sensitive information through feedback forms could be covered by this clause. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU jurisdictions with stronger IP moral rights protections may limit the enforceability of a full assignment of author rights by contract. California law applies per the governing law clause, and California courts have generally enforced feedback assignment clauses in commercial software contexts. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Organizations with confidentiality obligations to third parties should assess whether employee use of Databricks web feedback forms could result in unauthorized disclosure of protected information, given the explicit disclaimer of any confidentiality obligation. Procurement teams may want to address this in acceptable use policies for enterprise tools. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Organizations should review internal policies on what types of information employees may submit through third-party vendor web forms, and consider whether training or guidance is needed to prevent inadvertent IP transfer through feedback submissions to Databricks.
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The provision eliminates confidentiality expectations for voluntary Submissions and grants Databricks unrestricted ownership and usage rights. This clarifies the company's legal standing to incorporate, develop, or publicly disclose user-submitted ideas without contractual obligations to the submitter.
Users who submit feedback or ideas through Databricks websites permanently transfer those submissions to Databricks and waive any right to compensation, meaning even commercially valuable ideas shared informally through web forms are covered by this clause.
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