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The provision establishes Discord's operational authority to reproduce, distribute, and permit third-party use of user content without time limitation or purpose restriction. This licensing framework enables Discord to operate its infrastructure and delivery systems without requiring case-by-case consent for each use of user-generated content.
Users grant Discord broad rights to use their content across commercial and non-commercial contexts indefinitely. The authorization extends to sublicensing to third-party providers, though Discord states it will not include content in features requiring explicit consent without obtaining that consent first.
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"By making content available through Discord, you grant Discord a license to use that content. The license you grant us is: worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-free, perpetual (i.e., for the duration of the applicable intellectual property right), and irrevocable (subject to a limited revocation right as described below). We may exercise the rights under that license for commercial or non-commercial purposes. The license also allows us to sublicense the content to others, like CDN providers, to help us make the Services available. While we may not include your content in a feature that would require the explicit consent of you or other users without that consent, our license to your content is not limited to a specific purpose or use case.— Excerpt from Discord's Discord Terms of Service
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The provision establishes Discord's operational authority to reproduce, distribute, and permit third-party use of user content without time limitation or purpose restriction. This licensing framework enables Discord to operate its infrastructure and delivery systems without requiring case-by-case consent for each use of user-generated content.
Users grant Discord broad rights to use their content across commercial and non-commercial contexts indefinitely. The authorization extends to sublicensing to third-party providers, though Discord states it will not include content in features requiring explicit consent without obtaining that consent first.
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