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Users grant GM broad rights to exploit their submitted content commercially and operationally, including the right to sublicense and transfer those rights to others, without any compensation obligation.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains an ellipsis around 'business', suggesting the full text may include additional scope language that was not provided. The canonical claim reflects only what the excerpt establishes.
Users who submit content permit General Motors to use, copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform that content for the Web site and GM's business, and to sublicense or transfer those rights, without paying the user.
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"...you hereby grant GM a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the Web site and GM's...business...Excerpt from General Motors's GM Terms of Use
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Users grant GM broad rights to exploit their submitted content commercially and operationally, including the right to sublicense and transfer those rights to others, without any compensation obligation.
Users who submit content permit General Motors to use, copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform that content for the Web site and GM's business, and to sublicense or transfer those rights, without paying the user.
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