Any feedback, suggestions, or ideas you submit to Redfin become Redfin's permanent property — Redfin owns them completely and can use them however it wants, forever, for free. You also give up any moral rights or credit for those ideas.
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The clause establishes Redfin's ownership or exclusive right to utilize user-generated feedback for any business purpose, eliminating user control over subsequent use, modification, or commercialization of submitted materials.
If you suggest a feature improvement or submit ideas to Redfin, you permanently lose all rights to that intellectual property — Redfin owns it outright and can commercialize it without compensating you or crediting you.
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"You hereby assign to the applicable Redfin Company all of your right, title, and interest in and to the Feedback. To the extent applicable law does not permit assignment of the Feedback, you hereby grant the Redfin Companies a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, fully paid-up, royalty-free license to use the Feedback in any manner in which the Redfin Companies see fit.Excerpt from Redfin's Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: The full assignment of user-generated feedback implicates U.S.
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The clause establishes Redfin's ownership or exclusive right to utilize user-generated feedback for any business purpose, eliminating user control over subsequent use, modification, or commercialization of submitted materials.
If you suggest a feature improvement or submit ideas to Redfin, you permanently lose all rights to that intellectual property — Redfin owns it outright and can commercialize it without compensating you or crediting you.
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