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The broad scope of this license grant enables eBay to incorporate user-generated content into service operations, promotional activities, and platform expansion without obtaining separate permissions or providing compensation. The perpetual and sublicensable nature means these rights extend indefinitely and may be delegated to third parties eBay engages.
Users posting content to eBay's Services automatically grant eBay a comprehensive right to use, modify, distribute, and sublicense that content for service provision and promotion purposes without additional compensation or ongoing user control. The sublicensing authorization permits eBay to delegate these rights to partners, vendors, or other third parties.
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"By posting, uploading, or submitting content to our Services, you grant eBay a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable right to exercise any and all intellectual property rights you have in that content in connection with our provision, expansion, and promotion of our Services.— Excerpt from eBay's eBay User Agreement
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The broad scope of this license grant enables eBay to incorporate user-generated content into service operations, promotional activities, and platform expansion without obtaining separate permissions or providing compensation. The perpetual and sublicensable nature means these rights extend indefinitely and may be delegated to third parties eBay engages.
Users posting content to eBay's Services automatically grant eBay a comprehensive right to use, modify, distribute, and sublicense that content for service provision and promotion purposes without additional compensation or ongoing user control. The sublicensing authorization permits eBay to delegate these rights to partners, vendors, or other third parties.
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