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"You hereby grant us a worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of such Content to provide Services and as otherwise permitted under these Terms and our Privacy Policy.— Excerpt from Hugging Face's Hugging Face Terms of Service
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The license grant establishes the operational permissions necessary for Hugging Face to host, index, and process user content across its platform infrastructure. The scope of the license—including derivative works and distribution rights—determines what uses of submitted content fall within the service provider's authorized activities.
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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