“If you do Share Content through Ring Offerings, including through Ring Neighbors, the Ring App, the Ring Community, or via a share link, you grant Ring an unlimited, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, store, delete, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, perform, translate, create derivative works from, distribute...”
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The breadth of the license—unlimited, perpetual, irrevocable, and sublicensable—means Ring retains broad rights over user content with no time limit and no ability for the user to revoke those rights.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'distribute'; additional licensed acts may be listed but are not quoted.
Readers grant Ring sweeping, permanent rights over their content, including the right to sublicense it to others, with no compensation and no ability to revoke the grant.
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"If you do Share Content through Ring Offerings, including through Ring Neighbors, the Ring App, the Ring Community, or via a share link, you grant Ring an unlimited, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, store, delete, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, perform, translate, create derivative works from, distribute...Excerpt from Ring's Terms of Service
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The breadth of the license—unlimited, perpetual, irrevocable, and sublicensable—means Ring retains broad rights over user content with no time limit and no ability for the user to revoke those rights.
Readers grant Ring sweeping, permanent rights over their content, including the right to sublicense it to others, with no compensation and no ability to revoke the grant.
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