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The license is worldwide, transferable, and sublicensable, meaning LinkedIn can pass these rights to third parties and exercise them globally across all content members post.
Interpretive note: The excerpt uses an ellipsis before the license scope description, suggesting there may be additional conditions or limitations on the license (such as duration or purpose restrictions) that are not available for analysis.
Content you post on LinkedIn may be used, copied, modified, distributed, publicly displayed, hosted, and processed by LinkedIn and its affiliates, and those rights can be transferred or sublicensed to others.
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We grant you a non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use the App on your device subject to this Agreement. We reserve all other rights.
You do not have any rights in relation to Member Content, and, unless expressly authorized by Tinder, you may only use Member Content to the extent that your use is consistent with our Services' purpose...
We hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license under the rights licensable by us to use the services and use Content from our services solely for your personal use...
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"You grant LinkedIn and our Affiliates the following non-exclusive license...A worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publicly perform and display, host, and process your content...— Excerpt from LinkedIn's LinkedIn User Agreement
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The license is worldwide, transferable, and sublicensable, meaning LinkedIn can pass these rights to third parties and exercise them globally across all content members post.
Content you post on LinkedIn may be used, copied, modified, distributed, publicly displayed, hosted, and processed by LinkedIn and its affiliates, and those rights can be transferred or sublicensed to others.
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