You are fully legally responsible for everything you upload or share on Hugging Face, including content uploaded by anyone you have authorized to use your account.
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This provision allocates content responsibility to individual users rather than to Hugging Face, establishing a foundational obligation that defines the scope of user liability for platform activity. The clause creates a gatekeeping requirement whereby users must control access to their Accounts to limit exposure to third-party conduct.
Users are personally and fully liable for all content posted under their account, including by authorized third parties — organizations using shared accounts or team access should implement strong internal access controls and content review processes.
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"You are solely responsible for the Content you post, publish, display or otherwise make available on our Website, and for any other action or omission that results from your use of the Services (including our Content or other user's Content), or the use by a person or an entity that you have authorized under your Account.— Excerpt from Hugging Face's Hugging Face Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates 17 U.S.C. §512 (DMCA safe harbor) — users, not Hugging Face, bear primary liability for infringing content they upload, consistent with the platform's DMCA safe harbor positioning. It also engages EU Digital Services Act (DSA) Article 6 liability framework, which distinguishes between platform and user responsibility. Under GDPR Article 82, data subjects may seek damages from any party — including uploading users — responsible for unlawful processing of personal data in uploaded datasets. (2)
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This provision allocates content responsibility to individual users rather than to Hugging Face, establishing a foundational obligation that defines the scope of user liability for platform activity. The clause creates a gatekeeping requirement whereby users must control access to their Accounts to limit exposure to third-party conduct.
Users are personally and fully liable for all content posted under their account, including by authorized third parties — organizations using shared accounts or team access should implement strong internal access controls and content review processes.
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