Users who interact with AI-enabled features such as Khanmigo grant Khan Academy a worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, modify, distribute, and create derivative works from their inputs and the AI-generated outputs for purposes including service delivery, evaluation of service providers, and development and improvement of Khan Academy's services.
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This provision establishes a broad license over AI Content, defined as both user inputs and AI-generated outputs, that is irrevocable and extends to service improvement and third-party service provider evaluation. For educational institutions, this license may require assessment under FERPA if AI interactions involve or contain student education records.
Interpretive note: The practical scope of the license is constrained by reference to Applicable Law and Khan Academy's Privacy Policy, but the interaction between this license and FERPA's education records protections depends on how AI interactions are classified by the institution and Khan Academy in specific deployment contexts.
Under this clause, any content submitted to or received from Khan Academy's AI features, including tutoring conversations, is licensed to Khan Academy on a perpetual, irrevocable basis for use in service development and third-party provider evaluation. The agreement states this license operates in accordance with Applicable Law and Khan Academy's Privacy Policy, which provides the primary constraint on its scope.
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Compare across platforms →"Without limiting our rights otherwise set forth in these Terms, by using the AI-Enabled Features, you hereby grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, transferable, assignable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, sub-licensable (through multiple-tiers) license to access, use, modify, display, publicly perform, distribute, copy, create derivatives from (including derivative works of) and process any and all Inputs and Outputs (including any intellectual property contained therein or embodied thereby) to provide our Services to you and your authorized to evaluate service provider offerings we use or could use to provide AI-Enabled Features, and to develop and improve our Services in accordance with Applicable Law and Khan Academy's Privacy Policy.Excerpt from Khan Academy's Terms of Service
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This provision establishes a broad license over AI Content, defined as both user inputs and AI-generated outputs, that is irrevocable and extends to service improvement and third-party service provider evaluation. For educational institutions, this license may require assessment under FERPA if AI interactions involve or contain student education records.
Under this clause, any content submitted to or received from Khan Academy's AI features, including tutoring conversations, is licensed to Khan Academy on a perpetual, irrevocable basis for use in service development and third-party provider evaluation. The agreement states this license operates in accordance with Applicable Law and Khan Academy's Privacy Policy, which provides the primary constraint on its scope.
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