By posting user content such as questions, comments, or feedback on DocuSign's site, users grant DocuSign a nonexclusive, royalty-free, fully sublicensable, worldwide license to reproduce, modify, distribute, translate, and create derivative works from that content in any media or technology, now or hereafter developed.
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This provision grants DocuSign a broad, sublicensable, worldwide license to user-posted content including the right to create derivative works and distribute content in future technologies. The terms clarify that this provision does not apply to documents or data uploaded for processing through DocuSign service accounts, limiting its scope to content posted on the site such as feedback, comments, and public messages.
Under this clause, content posted publicly on DocuSign's site, including product feedback, comments, and questions, is subject to a royalty-free, sublicensable, worldwide license covering reproduction, modification, translation, and derivative works. The terms explicitly state that documents uploaded to DocuSign service accounts for processing are excluded from this license.
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This provision grants DocuSign a broad, sublicensable, worldwide license to user-posted content including the right to create derivative works and distribute content in future technologies. The terms clarify that this provision does not apply to documents or data uploaded for processing through DocuSign service accounts, limiting its scope to content posted on the site such as feedback, comments, and public …
Under this clause, content posted publicly on DocuSign's site, including product feedback, comments, and questions, is subject to a royalty-free, sublicensable, worldwide license covering reproduction, modification, translation, and derivative works. The terms explicitly state that documents uploaded to DocuSign service accounts for processing are excluded from this license.
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