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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We use your personal information to improve and enhance our Services, including through the use of various technologies (e.g., business intelligence tools, machine learning systems, and artificial intelligence), personalize content and features to your interests and goals...
This is still Your Content, and you are responsible for it and its accuracy, as well as your use of it on our Services and any and all decisions made, actions taken, and failures to take action based on Your Content.
"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 User Agreement
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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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