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The clause operationalizes the service delivery model by authorizing Microsoft to process and transmit user-generated content across its infrastructure and communications systems. This license grant is structured as necessary to the technical functioning of the services rather than a separate or additional authorization.
Interpretive note: The scope of 'improve Microsoft products and services' is not defined in the document and may encompass activities such as AI model training; the agreement does not expressly state whether the license persists after account deletion.
Users maintain ownership of their content while the terms authorize Microsoft to use that content for service delivery, protection, and product improvement purposes. The license is worldwide in scope and does not require royalty payments to users.
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"Except for material that we license to you, we don't claim ownership of the content you provide on the services. Your content remains your content. We also don't control, verify, or endorse the content that you and others make available on the services. To the extent necessary to provide the services to you and others, to protect you and the services, and to improve Microsoft products and services, 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's Microsoft Services Agreement (Legacy)
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The clause operationalizes the service delivery model by authorizing Microsoft to process and transmit user-generated content across its infrastructure and communications systems. This license grant is structured as necessary to the technical functioning of the services rather than a separate or additional authorization.
Users maintain ownership of their content while the terms authorize Microsoft to use that content for service delivery, protection, and product improvement purposes. The license is worldwide in scope and does not require royalty payments to users.
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