When you send content through the Gemini API, you grant Google a permanent, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, and distribute that content across its services.
This analysis describes what Google AI Studio's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
The license is stated to be perpetual and irrevocable, meaning that content submitted through the API may be retained and used by Google even after a developer stops using the service. Developers submitting proprietary or sensitive content should assess whether this license scope is consistent with their own intellectual property and confidentiality obligations.
Interpretive note: The interaction between the irrevocable license assertion and GDPR Article 17 erasure rights is legally complex and not resolved by the document text alone; applicable law may limit the scope of this license with respect to personal data.
Content submitted by developers, which may include end-user generated content passed through the API, is licensed to Google on a perpetual and irrevocable basis under these terms. Developers handling third-party or user-generated content should assess whether their own rights permit this grant.
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we may closely review accounts that offer the following services, products, or content: Online trading, day trading tips, and stock market related content
Paid Subscribers can select whether Content is public or private.
If Your Content is prohibited under the laws of any jurisdiction where our Services are available, we may remove it even if it is not illegal in your location.
"By submitting, posting or displaying content to or through the Gemini API, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through the Gemini API.Excerpt from Google AI Studio's Gemini API Terms of Service
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The perpetual and irrevocable license scope may interact with GDPR data subject rights, particularly the right to erasure under Article 17, to the extent that licensed content constitutes or contains personal data.
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The license is stated to be perpetual and irrevocable, meaning that content submitted through the API may be retained and used by Google even after a developer stops using the service. Developers submitting proprietary or sensitive content should assess whether this license scope is consistent with their own intellectual property and confidentiality obligations.
Content submitted by developers, which may include end-user generated content passed through the API, is licensed to Google on a perpetual and irrevocable basis under these terms. Developers handling third-party or user-generated content should assess whether their own rights permit this grant.
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