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The clause establishes Microsoft's operational rights to incorporate user content into product development, service operations, and derivative applications without payment obligations or exclusivity restrictions, enabling broad internal utilization of submitted materials.
Users grant Microsoft a license to their submitted content that permits the company to use, modify, distribute, and create derivative works from that content across its product portfolio. The license is nonexclusive, meaning users retain rights to the same content, but Microsoft's rights are transferable to other entities.
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By making any User Content available to Calm, you hereby grant to Calm a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free, license to use, store, publish, translate, reproduce, adapt, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, publicly display, publicly perform, and distrib...
By submitting User Material you hereby grant Headspace an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide license to use, telecast, copy, perform, display, edit, distribute and otherwise exploit the User Material you post on the Products, or any portion thereof, and any ideas, concept...
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"When you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights in or in connection with our products, you grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that content in connection with operating and improving our products.— Excerpt from Microsoft's Microsoft Services Agreement (Legacy)
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The clause establishes Microsoft's operational rights to incorporate user content into product development, service operations, and derivative applications without payment obligations or exclusivity restrictions, enabling broad internal utilization of submitted materials.
Users grant Microsoft a license to their submitted content that permits the company to use, modify, distribute, and create derivative works from that content across its product portfolio. The license is nonexclusive, meaning users retain rights to the same content, but Microsoft's rights are transferable to other entities.
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