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This broad intellectual property license enables Shopify to operationalize user-generated content across its platform infrastructure, including reproduction and derivative work creation, without separate compensation or per-use authorization. The transferability and sub-licensability provisions permit Shopify to extend these rights to third parties and successors in interest.
Users grant Shopify expansive rights to their submitted materials, including the ability to modify, distribute, and create derivative works. The provision applies to materials uploaded or created within the Shopify platform and operates under the terms as written upon continued service use.
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"You hereby grant Shopify a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to host, use, distribute, expose, modify, run, copy, store, publicly perform, communicate to the public (including by telecommunication), broadcast, reproduce, make available, display, and translate, and create derivative works of your Materials.— Excerpt from Shopify's Shopify Terms of Service
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This broad intellectual property license enables Shopify to operationalize user-generated content across its platform infrastructure, including reproduction and derivative work creation, without separate compensation or per-use authorization. The transferability and sub-licensability provisions permit Shopify to extend these rights to third parties and successors in interest.
Users grant Shopify expansive rights to their submitted materials, including the ability to modify, distribute, and create derivative works. The provision applies to materials uploaded or created within the Shopify platform and operates under the terms as written upon continued service use.
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