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The provision establishes Pinterest's operational rights to use user-generated content for service delivery, promotion, and redistribution without additional compensation or per-use authorization. The perpetual and transferable nature of the license means these rights extend beyond the user's tenure on the platform and can be exercised by Pinterest successors and affiliated entities.
Users who submit content to Pinterest authorize the platform to use that content and their associated identifying information (name, voice, likeness) for service operations, marketing, and derivative works without ongoing compensation. The license terms apply to all content formats and distribution channels, whether presently existing or developed in the future.
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"By making available any Member Content through the Service, you hereby grant to Pinterest the following non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual (or for the term of the protection), sub-licensable and transferable license to use the Member Content: reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, make derivative works of all such Member Content and your name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your Member Content, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with the Service and Pinterest's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.— Excerpt from Pinterest's Pinterest Terms of Service
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The provision establishes Pinterest's operational rights to use user-generated content for service delivery, promotion, and redistribution without additional compensation or per-use authorization. The perpetual and transferable nature of the license means these rights extend beyond the user's tenure on the platform and can be exercised by Pinterest successors and affiliated entities.
Users who submit content to Pinterest authorize the platform to use that content and their associated identifying information (name, voice, likeness) for service operations, marketing, and derivative works without ongoing compensation. The license terms apply to all content formats and distribution channels, whether presently existing or developed in the future.
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