“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...”
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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.
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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 hereby grant you a limited, nonexclusive, and non-sublicensable license to access and use the Materials for your non-commercial personal or internal business uses.
You also grant each other user of the Service a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to access your Content through the Service, and to use that Content...only as enabled by a feature of the Service.
Access and use of the Service does not grant or provide you with the right or license to reproduce or otherwise use the Duolingo name or any Duolingo or third-party trademarks, service marks, graphics, or logos.
"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 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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