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The clause establishes broad content ownership rights that permit Instacart to repurpose user submissions across multiple operational contexts, including machine learning applications, without triggering additional payment obligations or consent requirements.
Interpretive note: The precise scope of 'any purpose' and the identity of permissible sublicensees are not fully defined in the available document text; the interaction with copyright law for AI training use is an evolving area.
Instacart rewrote its entire Terms of Service, adding 367 new sentences including sections on AI-powered services, updated arbitration procedures, and revised data handling practices. The restructuring makes it harder to compare what changed because the entire document was reorganized.
View change record →Users who submit content through the platform authorize Instacart to utilize that content for commercial purposes, including AI development, without compensation or individual approval for each use case. The sublicensable and transferable language permits Instacart to extend these rights to third parties.
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"By submitting content through the Services, you grant Instacart a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish, and process that content for any purpose, including for AI training and improvement of the Services, without additional consent or compensation to you.— Excerpt from Instacart's Instacart Terms of Service
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The clause establishes broad content ownership rights that permit Instacart to repurpose user submissions across multiple operational contexts, including machine learning applications, without triggering additional payment obligations or consent requirements.
Users who submit content through the platform authorize Instacart to utilize that content for commercial purposes, including AI development, without compensation or individual approval for each use case. The sublicensable and transferable language permits Instacart to extend these rights to third parties.
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