The agreement states that any suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, proposals, or documents a customer provides to PlanetScale regarding PlanetScale's intellectual property are subject to a royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual license that PlanetScale may transfer and sublicense without compensation or attribution to the customer.
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This provision grants PlanetScale an irrevocable and perpetual intellectual property license over a broadly defined category of customer-provided materials, including proposals and documents, without any compensation obligation. The irrevocable and perpetual nature of the license means customers cannot later restrict or revoke PlanetScale's use of submitted feedback regardless of changes in business relationship.
Under this clause, customers who submit product suggestions, proposals, or documents related to PlanetScale's platform grant PlanetScale and its affiliates the right to use, modify, and distribute those materials indefinitely and without restriction. The agreement states no compensation, attribution, or other obligation to the customer arises from this license.
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Compare across platforms →"In the event that Customer provides PlanetScale with suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, proposals, documents, or other feedback related to PlanetScale IP (collectively, "Feedback"), Customer grants PlanetScale and its Affiliates a royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sublicenseable, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, modify, and distribute such Feedback in any manner without restriction, compensation to Customer, attribution of any kind, or any other obligation to Customer.Excerpt from PlanetScale's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision primarily implicates intellectual property law rather than a specific regulatory framework.
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This provision grants PlanetScale an irrevocable and perpetual intellectual property license over a broadly defined category of customer-provided materials, including proposals and documents, without any compensation obligation. The irrevocable and perpetual nature of the license means customers cannot later restrict or revoke PlanetScale's use of submitted feedback regardless of changes in business relationship.
Under this clause, customers who submit product suggestions, proposals, or documents related to PlanetScale's platform grant PlanetScale and its affiliates the right to use, modify, and distribute those materials indefinitely and without restriction. The agreement states no compensation, attribution, or other obligation to the customer arises from this license.
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