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The clause permits Public to incorporate user content into service operations and business activities without additional compensation or separate licensing agreements, establishing the legal basis for content utilization across platform functions and marketing purposes.
Users authorize Public to use their posted content for service delivery, derivative works, and promotional purposes under a broad, transferable license upon submission. The authorization applies to content across the Service and Public's related business activities without requiring ongoing user approval for each use.
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By submitting, posting or displaying content on or through the Service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such content in any and all media or distrib...
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"By posting or submitting any content to the Service, you grant Public a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform such content in connection with the Service and Public's business, including for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service.— Excerpt from Public.com's Public.com Terms of Service
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The clause permits Public to incorporate user content into service operations and business activities without additional compensation or separate licensing agreements, establishing the legal basis for content utilization across platform functions and marketing purposes.
Users authorize Public to use their posted content for service delivery, derivative works, and promotional purposes under a broad, transferable license upon submission. The authorization applies to content across the Service and Public's related business activities without requiring ongoing user approval for each use.
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