When a user makes a model publicly available as a community model on the Replicate platform, they grant every current and future platform user a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to access and use that model through the service. This license survives account termination, and the terms note that Replicate may retain and continue to host community models after account deletion.
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This provision establishes that the act of publishing a community model on the platform creates a permanent, non-revocable license running to all platform users, which the publisher cannot subsequently withdraw even after account termination or deletion. Organizations publishing models on the platform should evaluate this license grant against their intellectual property and licensing strategy prior to publication.
Under this clause, users who publish models publicly on Replicate grant all platform users a perpetual, irrevocable license to access and use those models through the service, a license that cannot be revoked after publication. The terms additionally state that Replicate may, but is not obligated to, retain and continue hosting publicly shared community models after the publishing user deletes their account.
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Compare across platforms →"If you decide to share a Community Model on our Website or through the Services, in addition to the license above, you grant (i) Replicate the right to process and redistribute the Community Model and share the resulting Output to each end user of the Service (" User "); and (ii) each User a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to access and use the Community Model through our Services. If you upload a Community Model, you represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights to grant the licenses in this Section 5.2 with respect to such Community Model.Excerpt from Replicate's Acceptable Use Policy
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This provision establishes that the act of publishing a community model on the platform creates a permanent, non-revocable license running to all platform users, which the publisher cannot subsequently withdraw even after account termination or deletion. Organizations publishing models on the platform should evaluate this license grant against their intellectual property and licensing strategy prior to publication.
Under this clause, users who publish models publicly on Replicate grant all platform users a perpetual, irrevocable license to access and use those models through the service, a license that cannot be revoked after publication. The terms additionally state that Replicate may, but is not obligated to, retain and continue hosting publicly shared community models after the publishing user deletes …
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