When you submit any content to Scale AI's website or services, you are giving Scale AI a permanent, free license to use, copy, modify, and share that content in any way they choose, including sublicensing it to others.
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The clause establishes Scale AI's operational rights over submitted content on a perpetual and irrevocable basis, enabling the company to repurpose, modify, and distribute user content without ongoing compensation or consent requirements, and to permit third parties to exercise these same rights through sublicensing.
Interpretive note: The enforceability of the irrevocable license with respect to personal data deletion rights under GDPR and CCPA remains legally uncertain and may depend on jurisdiction-specific regulatory interpretation.
This broad content license has been removed from the main terms, potentially replaced by more limited feedback-specific provisions, reducing the scope of user content rights Scale automatically acquires.
View full change record →Any content you submit through the Scale AI website, including text, data, or other materials, may be used by Scale AI indefinitely and shared with third parties through sublicensing, with no compensation owed to you and no ability to revoke the license after submission.
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"By submitting, posting or displaying content on or through Scale's Services, 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 distribution methods now known or later developed.Excerpt from Scale AI's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision implicates GDPR Article 6 (lawful basis for processing) and Article 17 (right to erasure) for EU users, as a perpetual irrevocable license may conflict with the right to erasure if …
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The clause establishes Scale AI's operational rights over submitted content on a perpetual and irrevocable basis, enabling the company to repurpose, modify, and distribute user content without ongoing compensation or consent requirements, and to permit third parties to exercise these same rights through sublicensing.
Any content you submit through the Scale AI website, including text, data, or other materials, may be used by Scale AI indefinitely and shared with third parties through sublicensing, with no compensation owed to you and no ability to revoke the license after submission.
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