“Customer...owns all Output. Perplexity asserts no ownership rights in any Output and, to the extent it obtains any such rights by operation of law or otherwise, hereby assigns such rights to Customer.”
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The assignment clause closes a potential gap: even if Perplexity AI were to acquire rights in Output through legal mechanisms, those rights are contractually transferred to the customer.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains two closely related but distinct propositions: (1) customer owns all Output, and (2) Perplexity AI disclaims and assigns away any rights it acquires. The canonical claim focuses on Perplexity AI's disclaimer and assignment as the more legally operative language; the customer ownership statement is noted in omitted_material.
Customers receive assurance that Perplexity AI will not claim ownership over generated Outputs and that any rights Perplexity AI acquires are assigned to the customer.
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The assignment clause closes a potential gap: even if Perplexity AI were to acquire rights in Output through legal mechanisms, those rights are contractually transferred to the customer.
Customers receive assurance that Perplexity AI will not claim ownership over generated Outputs and that any rights Perplexity AI acquires are assigned to the customer.
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