Users grant Perplexity a royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, worldwide, and irrevocable license to access, reproduce, modify, distribute, and sublicense user-submitted content and inputs for the purpose of operating, improving, and promoting the Services, including passing those rights to third-party service partners.
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This provision establishes the broadest grant of rights over user content in the agreement. The irrevocable and sublicensable nature of the license means that content submitted as inputs to the AI engine may be used and passed to third parties for as long as the content remains stored with Perplexity, with limited recourse for users seeking to restrict downstream use.
The updated terms state that the Company reserves the right, and has absolute discretion, to remove, screen, edit, or delete any user content at any time, for any reason, and without notice. The revised language also clarifies that while the Company does not claim ownership of user-submitted content, the Company retains ownership of the Services and the underlying technology used to generate Output. Additionally, the terms now specify that users must obtain license rights in their content to allow the Company to operate the Service without legal violations. The operational effect is that user content may be subject to removal at any time under the Company's sole discretion, and users should understand the distinction between their ownership rights in submitted content and the Company's ownership of the platform and generation technology.
View change record →Changed from 'non-exclusive' to implicitly broader scope by explicitly stating 'irrevocable' duration and adding 'transferable' rights; clarified that license applies to both Input and Output-based content.
View full change record →Under this clause, content and queries submitted by users are subject to a worldwide, irrevocable license that permits Perplexity to reproduce, modify, distribute, and sublicense that content to third-party partners involved in service delivery, for as long as the content is stored on the platform.
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Compare across platforms →"by using the Service and uploading Your Content, you grant us a license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify Your Content to operate, improve, promote and provide the Services, including to reproduce, transmit, display, publish and distribute Output based on your Input. You agree that these rights and licenses are royalty free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide and irrevocable (for so long as Your Content is stored with us), and include a right for us to make Your Content available to, and pass these rights along to, others with whom we have contractual relationships related to the provision of the Services, solely for the purpose of providing such Services, and to otherwise permit access to or disclose Your Content to third parties if we determine such access is necessary to comply with our legal obligations.Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Terms of Service
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This provision establishes the broadest grant of rights over user content in the agreement. The irrevocable and sublicensable nature of the license means that content submitted as inputs to the AI engine may be used and passed to third parties for as long as the content remains stored with Perplexity, with limited recourse for users seeking to restrict downstream use.
Under this clause, content and queries submitted by users are subject to a worldwide, irrevocable license that permits Perplexity to reproduce, modify, distribute, and sublicense that content to third-party partners involved in service delivery, for as long as the content is stored on the platform.
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