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This clause establishes a contractual boundary around permissible uses of Netflix's platform and content. It operates as a use restriction that applies to the full lifecycle of machine learning development, not merely deployment, and requires affirmative authorization for any ML-related activity involving Netflix content or services.
The updated terms now require users to resolve most disputes with Netflix through binding arbitration rather than in court, unless users exercise a time-limited right to opt out. Under the revised language, disputes will not be decided by a judge or jury. The terms state that Section 6 contains full details of this requirement. You can review Section 6 to understand your opt-out rights and the time period available to exercise them.
View change record →The updated terms introduce a new account category called 'Extra Members,' described as users who do not live in the same household as the Account Owner, available where the feature is offered. The terms now explicitly require that any person creating a Netflix account must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in their jurisdiction. The revised language also clarifies that some Netflix content and features may be accessed without creating an account or providing a payment method, while other options require a subscription. These changes formalize previously implicit account structures and establish age-gated account creation.
View change record →The updated Terms of Use clarify how Netflix membership operates and what users authorize by continuing service. The revised language explicitly defines the Netflix service as a personalized subscription enabling discovery and access to content, and states that membership continues until terminated and that Netflix may charge the user's payment method on each billing cycle unless the user cancels before the billing date. The updated terms no longer include the prior version's prominent language describing mandatory arbitration requirements and dispute resolution procedures, creating a material gap in documented dispute resolution authority compared to the previous terms.
View change record →Users operating under these terms are bound by a prohibition on using Netflix content or the platform itself as input for machine learning development activities. The provision requires users seeking to conduct ML operations involving Netflix content to obtain explicit prior authorization from Netflix, establishing a gatekeeping mechanism for such uses.
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You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
You must not, and must not allow others to: Facilitate illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services; Cause harm to us or others through the End User Services;
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"Unless otherwise explicitly authorized, you agree not to: (ix) engage in any of the foregoing in connection with the use, creation, development, modification, prompting, fine-tuning, training, testing, benchmarking or validation of any machine learning tool, model, system, algorithm, product or other technology.— Excerpt from Netflix's Netflix Terms of Use
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This clause establishes a contractual boundary around permissible uses of Netflix's platform and content. It operates as a use restriction that applies to the full lifecycle of machine learning development, not merely deployment, and requires affirmative authorization for any ML-related activity involving Netflix content or services.
Users operating under these terms are bound by a prohibition on using Netflix content or the platform itself as input for machine learning development activities. The provision requires users seeking to conduct ML operations involving Netflix content to obtain explicit prior authorization from Netflix, establishing a gatekeeping mechanism for such uses.
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