“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.”
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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.
Interpretive note: The excerpt ends with '...' indicating there may be additional qualifying language not captured here. The word 'may' in the excerpt means the outcome is contingent, not certain; the canonical claim preserves this qualifier. The mechanism by which others acquire these abilities is not explained in the excerpt.
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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"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 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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