Members who post content to the site grant Impact a revocable, non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide license to use, copy, display, reformat, translate, and distribute that content for service purposes. The license expires upon content removal, but the agreement states that Impact may retain archived copies of removed content.
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This provision establishes that Impact's content license is scoped to service performance purposes and is revocable upon content removal. The archival retention carve-out, however, permits Impact to retain copies of member content after the license has expired, the scope and duration of which is not defined in the document.
Interpretive note: The scope and duration of archival retention after license expiration are not defined in the document, creating ambiguity regarding Impact's ongoing obligations with respect to retained content.
Under this clause, members grant Impact a worldwide license to use, copy, display, and distribute member-posted content for service purposes, and may revoke this license by removing the content. The agreement states that Impact may retain archived copies of content after removal, without specifying the duration or scope of such retention.
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Compare across platforms →"By posting Member Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Impact revocable, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, and distribute such Member Content for the purposes of performing Impact's services, the Service and Site. You may revoke the foregoing license and remove your Member Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your Member Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that Impact may retain archived copies of your Member Content.Excerpt from Impact's Terms and Conditions
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The archival retention provision may require evaluation under GDPR's right to erasure (Article 17) for EU-based members, as the right to erasure applies to personal data rather than licensed content broadly, but …
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This provision establishes that Impact's content license is scoped to service performance purposes and is revocable upon content removal. The archival retention carve-out, however, permits Impact to retain copies of member content after the license has expired, the scope and duration of which is not defined in the document.
Under this clause, members grant Impact a worldwide license to use, copy, display, and distribute member-posted content for service purposes, and may revoke this license by removing the content. The agreement states that Impact may retain archived copies of content after removal, without specifying the duration or scope of such retention.
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