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This assignment means users receive whatever intellectual property rights OpenAI holds in Output, though the qualifier 'if any' indicates OpenAI does not warrant that it holds any such rights.
Interpretive note: The excerpt also states that users 'own the Output', which is a separate proposition from the assignment; the canonical claim focuses on the assignment as the operative legal mechanism. The 'if any' qualifier is preserved as it limits the scope of the assignment.
Users receive an assignment of all of OpenAI's right, title, and interest in Output, subject to the qualifier that OpenAI may hold no such rights.
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The Microsoft Services Agreement says "Your Content remains Your Content"...We don't own the original stuff that you create.
"you...own the Output. We hereby assign to you all our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output.Excerpt from OpenAI's EU Terms of Use
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This assignment means users receive whatever intellectual property rights OpenAI holds in Output, though the qualifier 'if any' indicates OpenAI does not warrant that it holds any such rights.
Users receive an assignment of all of OpenAI's right, title, and interest in Output, subject to the qualifier that OpenAI may hold no such rights.
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