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This clause establishes the operational framework through which Discord can incorporate user content into its service delivery, platform features, and user experiences. It permits Discord to leverage user-generated content across multiple functions including content distribution, service improvement, and cross-platform deployment.
Interpretive note: The phrase 'in connection with operating and providing the Services' limits the license scope, but the practical boundary of what constitutes operating the service may be interpreted broadly and is not exhaustively defined in the document.
Users grant Discord a broad, perpetual license to their posted content that includes modification rights and sublicensing authority. The authorization permits Discord to use user content in ways beyond the immediate post, including derivative works and distribution to other users and third parties.
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"By making any User Content available through the Services, you grant to Discord a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, distribute, publicly display, and publicly perform your User Content in connection with operating and providing the Services and Content to you and to other users.— Excerpt from Discord's Discord Terms of Service
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This clause establishes the operational framework through which Discord can incorporate user content into its service delivery, platform features, and user experiences. It permits Discord to leverage user-generated content across multiple functions including content distribution, service improvement, and cross-platform deployment.
Users grant Discord a broad, perpetual license to their posted content that includes modification rights and sublicensing authority. The authorization permits Discord to use user content in ways beyond the immediate post, including derivative works and distribution to other users and third parties.
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