You are permitted to browse the Scale website for your own internal use only, using a standard web browser. You may not copy, reverse engineer, or use the site to build competing products, and you cannot share your access with unauthorized third parties.
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The license is revocable and conditioned on ongoing compliance; violations of the terms automatically terminate the license, and the restrictions on reverse engineering and competitive product development are legally operative provisions that may affect developers and researchers.
Interpretive note: The scope of 'internal purposes' and the enforceability of the competitive use prohibition may require interpretation depending on the specific activities involved and jurisdiction.
Under this provision, access to the Scale website is granted on a revocable basis conditioned on compliance with all terms; users who breach any provision lose their access authorization automatically, and accessing the site to analyze its features for competitive purposes is expressly prohibited.
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"Subject to your complete and ongoing compliance with these Terms, Scale hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, worldwide right to (a) access and use the Site, solely with supported browsers through the Internet for your own internal purposes. You may not permit the Site to be used by or for the benefit of unauthorized third parties. Nothing in these Terms will be construed to grant you any right to transfer or assign rights to access or use the Site. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by Scale and its licensors. You may not (i) modify or make derivative works based upon the Sites; (ii) reverse engineer the Site or access the Sites in order to (a) build a competitive product or service, or (b) build a product using similar features, functions, or graphics of the Sites, or (c) copy any features, functions, or graphics of the Sites.Excerpt from Scale AI's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: License restriction clauses are governed primarily by contract law and, where software access is involved, may engage the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the US context.
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The license is revocable and conditioned on ongoing compliance; violations of the terms automatically terminate the license, and the restrictions on reverse engineering and competitive product development are legally operative provisions that may affect developers and researchers.
Under this provision, access to the Scale website is granted on a revocable basis conditioned on compliance with all terms; users who breach any provision lose their access authorization automatically, and accessing the site to analyze its features for competitive purposes is expressly prohibited.
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