Users grant Quora a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, and perpetual license to use all content submitted to Poe, including prompts, bot interactions, and user-created bots, for purposes including service provision, improvement, and promotion.
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This provision asserts a perpetual and transferable license over user content, including prompts transmitted to third-party AI models, which may encompass proprietary or sensitive inputs submitted during ordinary platform use. The license scope extends to promotional use of shared content and user-created bots.
Under this clause, any content submitted to Poe, including questions, prompts, and bot-generated responses, is subject to a license that does not expire, is royalty-free, and is transferable to third parties by Quora. The agreement states that ownership is retained by users, but the license rights granted run in parallel with that ownership.
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1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The perpetual, transferable content license may require evaluation under GDPR for EU-resident users, particularly Articles 6 and 17, regarding lawful basis for processing and the right to erasure, as a perpetual license …
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This provision asserts a perpetual and transferable license over user content, including prompts transmitted to third-party AI models, which may encompass proprietary or sensitive inputs submitted during ordinary platform use. The license scope extends to promotional use of shared content and user-created bots.
Under this clause, any content submitted to Poe, including questions, prompts, and bot-generated responses, is subject to a license that does not expire, is royalty-free, and is transferable to third parties by Quora. The agreement states that ownership is retained by users, but the license rights granted run in parallel with that ownership.
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