Any feedback, ideas, or suggestions you send to Netflix can be used by Netflix in any way, forever, without paying you or notifying you, and you waive any claim if Netflix uses something similar to what you submitted.
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If you share ideas or creative feedback with Netflix, you have no ownership or compensation rights over how those ideas are used, even if Netflix creates content substantially similar to your submission.
This provision means that any idea, suggestion, or creative concept you share with Netflix through any channel becomes available for Netflix's use worldwide and in perpetuity at no cost, with no obligation to credit or compensate you.
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"Netflix is free to use any comments, information, ideas, concepts, reviews, or techniques or any other material contained in any communication you may send to us ("Feedback"), including responses to questionnaires or through postings to the Netflix service, including our websites and user interfaces, worldwide and in perpetuity without further compensation, notice, or permission. [...] Should you send any unsolicited materials or ideas, you do so with the understanding that no additional consideration of any sort will be provided to you, and you are waiving any claim against Netflix and its affiliates regarding the use of such materials and ideas, even if material or an idea is used that is substantially similar to the material or idea you sent.Excerpt from Netflix's Account and Content Policies
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If you share ideas or creative feedback with Netflix, you have no ownership or compensation rights over how those ideas are used, even if Netflix creates content substantially similar to your submission.
This provision means that any idea, suggestion, or creative concept you share with Netflix through any channel becomes available for Netflix's use worldwide and in perpetuity at no cost, with no obligation to credit or compensate you.
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