When you post anything on LinkedIn — your profile, articles, photos, comments — you give LinkedIn a permanent, worldwide license to use that content to run and improve their services, including training AI systems, without paying you anything.
This analysis describes what LinkedIn's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
This licensing grant establishes LinkedIn's operational authority to incorporate user-generated content and profile information into its service infrastructure, product development, and platform improvements without requiring case-by-case consent or compensation. The sublicensable and transferable nature of the license permits LinkedIn to authorize affiliated entities to utilize such content under the same terms.
Your profile content, posts, photos, and even your name and likeness can be used by LinkedIn to train generative AI models without your ongoing consent or any compensation to you.
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engage in any of the foregoing in connection with any use, creation, development, modification, prompting, fine-tuning, training, testing, benchmarking or validation of any artificial intelligence or machine learning tool, model, system, algorithm, product or other technology ("AI Tool").
We may use aggregated, de-identified data derived from your use of our services, including document metadata and usage patterns, to develop, train, and improve our artificial intelligence and machine learning models and product features.
After registration, you may create, upload or transmit files, documents, videos, images, data or information as part of your use of the Service (collectively, "User Content"). This includes any inputs you provide to our AI-powered support tools and outputs generated in response to your inputs. User ...
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"You grant LinkedIn a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, sublicensable, transferable, and perpetual license to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish, and process information and content (including your name, voice, image, likeness or profile picture) that you provide through our Services and the services of our Affiliates, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others... This license is for the limited purpose of operating, developing, providing, and improving our Services. We will not sell the content you provide to us to third parties. However, we may share your information for the purposes outlined in the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and other policies.— Excerpt from LinkedIn's LinkedIn User Agreement
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates GDPR Art. 6(1)(b) (processing necessary for contract performance) and Art. 6(1)(f) (legitimate interests) for EU/EEA users, as well as GDPR Art. 22 regarding automated decision-making. The EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689), effective August 2024, imposes transparency obligations on providers of general-purpose AI models regarding training data, which this license facilitates. CCPA §1798.100 and §1798.120 may require opt-out mechanisms for use of personal information in AI training for California residents. The FTC Act Section 5 applies to potentially deceptive representations about how user data is used.
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This licensing grant establishes LinkedIn's operational authority to incorporate user-generated content and profile information into its service infrastructure, product development, and platform improvements without requiring case-by-case consent or compensation. The sublicensable and transferable nature of the license permits LinkedIn to authorize affiliated entities to utilize such content under the same terms.
Your profile content, posts, photos, and even your name and likeness can be used by LinkedIn to train generative AI models without your ongoing consent or any compensation to you.
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