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This indemnification clause allocates legal and financial risk to the developer by establishing an obligation to defend and compensate Meta for specified categories of claims. The provision creates a broad scope of covered events including developer-created content, platform usage, contractual breaches, and regulatory or intellectual property violations.
The updated terms authorize Meta to retain user-submitted content if its systems flag the content for a potential policy violation, in addition to retention tied to legal compliance and contractual rights. This expands the circumstances under which content may be preserved without explicit time limits. Under the revised language, content retention decisions may now be driven by automated policy-violation flagging in addition to legal or contractual necessity. Developers integrating the Llama API should understand that flagged content may be retained indefinitely pending policy review.
View change record →Developers using the Llama API assume financial responsibility for defending Meta against claims related to their own applications, content, platform usage, or legal violations. This obligation extends to paying Meta's reasonable legal fees and any resulting damages for the specified categories of claims.
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"You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Meta and its directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your apps, platforms, or content; (b) your use of Meta Platform Technologies; (c) your breach of this Agreement; or (d) any actual or alleged violation of applicable law or third party rights by you.— Excerpt from Meta's Llama API Terms of Service
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This indemnification clause allocates legal and financial risk to the developer by establishing an obligation to defend and compensate Meta for specified categories of claims. The provision creates a broad scope of covered events including developer-created content, platform usage, contractual breaches, and regulatory or intellectual property violations.
Developers using the Llama API assume financial responsibility for defending Meta against claims related to their own applications, content, platform usage, or legal violations. This obligation extends to paying Meta's reasonable legal fees and any resulting damages for the specified categories of claims.
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