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The provision establishes Descript's legal basis for processing user content beyond the immediate service delivery function, including the right to make content available to third-party partners. This authorization extends to content improvement, service promotion, and syndication activities without requiring separate user consent for each use case.
Users who submit content to the Services authorize Descript to use that content in derivative works, promotional materials, and through partner distribution channels without additional compensation or per-use notification. The grant is perpetual and applies to all content formats submitted through the platform.
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After registration, you may create, upload or transmit files, documents, videos, images, data or information as part of your use of the Service (collectively, "User Content"). This includes any inputs you provide to our AI-powered support tools and outputs generated in response to your inputs. User ...
engage in any of the foregoing in connection with any use, creation, development, modification, prompting, fine-tuning, training, testing, benchmarking or validation of any artificial intelligence or machine learning tool, model, system, algorithm, product or other technology ("AI Tool").
We may process information collected under this section 3 so that content, products and services shown on the pages of the Steam store and in update messages displayed when launching the Steam Client can be tailored to meet your needs and populated with relevant recommendations and offers. This is d...
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"By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed. You agree that this license includes the right for Descript to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Descript for the syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication of such Content on other media and services.— Excerpt from Descript's Descript Terms of Service
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The provision establishes Descript's legal basis for processing user content beyond the immediate service delivery function, including the right to make content available to third-party partners. This authorization extends to content improvement, service promotion, and syndication activities without requiring separate user consent for each use case.
Users who submit content to the Services authorize Descript to use that content in derivative works, promotional materials, and through partner distribution channels without additional compensation or per-use notification. The grant is perpetual and applies to all content formats submitted through the platform.
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