By submitting any content to LexisNexis Interactive Areas, users grant Provider a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, sublicense, and create derivative works from that content in any medium, without further payment or notice to the user.
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This provision requires users to grant broad intellectual property rights in submitted content as a condition of participation in Interactive Areas. The license is irrevocable and perpetual, meaning it continues regardless of whether the user later deletes content or ceases using the site.
Under this clause, any content submitted to LexisNexis Interactive Areas is subject to a permanent, irrevocable license that authorizes Provider to reproduce, modify, sublicense, and commercially use that content without additional compensation or notification to the submitting user.
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Compare across platforms →"You grant to Provider an irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide license to use, authorize use of and have used on its behalf any ideas, expression of ideas, text, graphics, messages, blogs, links, data, information and other materials you submit (collectively, "Postings") to this Web Site. Said license is without restrictions of any kind and without any payment due from Provider to you or permission or notification, to you or any third party. The license includes the right to make, use, sell, reproduce, publish, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works from, combine with other works, translate, distribute, display, perform and sublicense Postings in any form, medium, or technology now known or hereafter developed.Excerpt from LexisNexis's Terms
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This provision requires users to grant broad intellectual property rights in submitted content as a condition of participation in Interactive Areas. The license is irrevocable and perpetual, meaning it continues regardless of whether the user later deletes content or ceases using the site.
Under this clause, any content submitted to LexisNexis Interactive Areas is subject to a permanent, irrevocable license that authorizes Provider to reproduce, modify, sublicense, and commercially use that content without additional compensation or notification to the submitting user.
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