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This indemnity provides financial protection to Paid Services users against third-party intellectual property claims for the covered categories, but is expressly limited to court-awarded damages and does not extend to users of Unpaid Services.
The updated terms establish new obligations for developers integrating Meta's AI models into their products. The agreement now requires developers to comply with applicable AI labeling, disclosure, provenance-marking, and system classification requirements under applicable law, with responsibility falling on the developer to implement these disclosures to end users. The expanded definition of Inputs now explicitly includes code, libraries, databases, and any content accessed through connectors or integrations, which may broaden what user-submitted content Meta claims the right to process for safety and security purposes.
View change record →The updated terms remove developer restrictions that previously applied to large-scale platforms, meaning companies with more than 700 million monthly active users can now access Meta's AI models without special permission. The terms also eliminate the restriction on EU developers accessing multimodal models and consolidate account management under either managed accounts or Meta accounts. Developers previously subject to these restrictions should review whether the updated terms now permit their use case.
View change record →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 →Paid Services users are entitled to indemnification from Meta for finally awarded damages in covered IP infringement claims; users of Unpaid Services receive no such protection.
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The Chegg Parties reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and you will not in any event settle any claim without the prior written consent of a duly authorized employee of the Chegg Parties.
We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you...and in that case, you agree to cooperate with our defense of those claims.
We reserve the right to assume all or any part of the defense of any such claims and negotiations for settlement, and you agree to fully cooperate with us in doing so.
"Meta will indemnify you against all damages that are finally awarded by a court of competent jurisdiction...arising out of any claim by a third party...related to (i) your use of the Paid Services, (ii) Meta's use of training data...or (iii) unmodified Outputs...that infringe any intellectual property rights...Excerpt from Meta's Llama API Terms of Service
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This indemnity provides financial protection to Paid Services users against third-party intellectual property claims for the covered categories, but is expressly limited to court-awarded damages and does not extend to users of Unpaid Services.
Paid Services users are entitled to indemnification from Meta for finally awarded damages in covered IP infringement claims; users of Unpaid Services receive no such protection.
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