When you post reviews, photos, or other content on Lyft's platform, you give Lyft a permanent, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use, modify, share, and sublicense that content anywhere, forever, without paying you or asking permission again.
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The license is perpetual and irrevocable, meaning Lyft retains rights to your submitted content even after you delete your account or stop using the service, and can share it with third parties or use it in derivative works.
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"By submitting or posting content through the Lyft Platform, you grant Lyft a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, modify, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and otherwise exploit in any manner such content in all formats and distribution channels now known or hereafter devised (including in connection with the Lyft Platform and Lyft's business and on third-party sites and services), without further notice to or consent from you, and without the requirement of payment to you or any other person or entity.Excerpt from Lyft's Terms of Service
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The license is perpetual and irrevocable, meaning Lyft retains rights to your submitted content even after you delete your account or stop using the service, and can share it with third parties or use it in derivative works.
Any photos, reviews, or other content you submit through the Lyft app may be used by Lyft indefinitely across any platform or medium, shared with third parties, and modified without additional notice or compensation to you.
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