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A worldwide, royalty-free license means Microsoft may use submitted Content broadly across the Services without any geographic restriction or payment obligation to the user.
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The reader grants Microsoft a worldwide, royalty-free intellectual property license to use their Content in the named ways on the Services.
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"you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, for example, to make copies of, retain, transmit, reformat, display, and distribute via communication tools Your Content on the Services.Excerpt from Microsoft Copilot's Terms of Service
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A worldwide, royalty-free license means Microsoft may use submitted Content broadly across the Services without any geographic restriction or payment obligation to the user.
The reader grants Microsoft a worldwide, royalty-free intellectual property license to use their Content in the named ways on the Services.
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