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The license is perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, and sublicensable, meaning Duolingo can use, modify, and share user Content indefinitely and through third parties without further compensation.
Users who submit Content permit Duolingo to use, reproduce, adapt, distribute, publicly display, and create derivative works from that Content permanently and globally at no cost.
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"you hereby grant to Duolingo a full-paid, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, nonexclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, copy, adapt, modify, merge, distribute, publicly display, and create derivative works from the Content...Excerpt from Duolingo's Terms of Service
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The license is perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, and sublicensable, meaning Duolingo can use, modify, and share user Content indefinitely and through third parties without further compensation.
Users who submit Content permit Duolingo to use, reproduce, adapt, distribute, publicly display, and create derivative works from that Content permanently and globally at no cost.
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