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Users are placed on notice that sharing content through the Services may result in others obtaining broad, worldwide, uncompensated rights to that content.
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If you share content with others through the Services, those people may use, save, record, reproduce, broadcast, transmit, share, and display it worldwide without compensating you.
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You do not have any rights in relation to Member Content, and, unless expressly authorized by Tinder, you may only use Member Content to the extent that your use is consistent with our Services' purpose...
We hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license under the rights licensable by us to use the services and use Content from our services solely for your personal use...
Other than the rights of access and use expressly granted in our Terms, our Terms do not grant you any right, title, or interest in or to our Services.
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"when you share Your Content with other people, you understand that they may be able to, on a worldwide basis, use, save, record, reproduce, broadcast, transmit, share and display Your Content...without compensating you.— Excerpt from Microsoft's Microsoft Services Agreement (Legacy)
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Users are placed on notice that sharing content through the Services may result in others obtaining broad, worldwide, uncompensated rights to that content.
If you share content with others through the Services, those people may use, save, record, reproduce, broadcast, transmit, share, and display it worldwide without compensating you.
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