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This clause establishes Mercury's operational rights to incorporate user content into service operations, product development, and distribution channels without additional compensation or per-use permission. The sublicensing right enables Mercury to extend these usage permissions to partners and service providers.
The updated terms establish that when customers pay invoices you issue through Mercury Invoicing via ACH debit, Mercury will apply a hold period before crediting the funds to your account. The hold period is determined by Mercury in its sole discretion based on risk factors related to the transaction, payer, and payment history, and may range from 1 to 4 business days from the date the ACH debit is initiated. Mercury will display an estimated funds availability date for each incoming invoice payment in your Invoicing dashboard.
View change record →Users grant Mercury broad reproduction and distribution rights to any content they submit through the service, including the ability to modify that content and permit third parties to use it. This authorization applies to all submissions and continues indefinitely without additional user consent or compensation.
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You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours. However, when you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Descript (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host,...
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"By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed.— Excerpt from Mercury's Mercury Terms of Service
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This clause establishes Mercury's operational rights to incorporate user content into service operations, product development, and distribution channels without additional compensation or per-use permission. The sublicensing right enables Mercury to extend these usage permissions to partners and service providers.
Users grant Mercury broad reproduction and distribution rights to any content they submit through the service, including the ability to modify that content and permit third parties to use it. This authorization applies to all submissions and continues indefinitely without additional user consent or compensation.
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