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The license is irrevocable and sublicensable, meaning Spotify can grant these rights to third parties and cannot be required to relinquish them after content is submitted.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'distribute'; additional licensed acts may appear in the full clause but cannot be confirmed from the provided text.
A user who submits User Content grants Spotify broad, permanent, cost-free rights to use that content in multiple ways globally, including allowing third parties to use it.
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You do not have any rights in relation to Member Content, and, unless expressly authorized by Tinder, you may only use Member Content to the extent that your use is consistent with our Services' purpose...
We hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license under the rights licensable by us to use the services and use Content from our services solely for your personal use...
...you grant to users of your model a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, store, and create derivative works from your LoRA and its output.
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"you hereby grant to Spotify a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully paid, irrevocable, worldwide license to reproduce, make available, perform and display, translate, modify, create derivative works from, distribute...— Excerpt from Spotify's Spotify Terms and Conditions
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The license is irrevocable and sublicensable, meaning Spotify can grant these rights to third parties and cannot be required to relinquish them after content is submitted.
A user who submits User Content grants Spotify broad, permanent, cost-free rights to use that content in multiple ways globally, including allowing third parties to use it.
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