By posting any content on Hugging Face, you give the company a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, and create derivative works from your content to run and improve its services.
Every piece of content you upload to Hugging Face — whether a model, dataset, or code — is licensed to the company on a royalty-free basis, including the right to make derivative works, which could include using your data to train Hugging Face's own systems.
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(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates GDPR Article 6(1)(b) (processing necessary for contract performance) and Article 6(1)(f) (legitimate interests) as a legal basis for content processing. The 'derivative works' right may constitute processing of personal data where training datasets contain personal information, triggering GDPR Article 22 (automated decision-making) and Article 5(1)(b) (purpose limitation) considerations. FTC Act Section 5 applies to representations about how user content is used. (2)
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