You own the code Tabnine generates for you, but by using the service you automatically give Tabnine a permanent, worldwide, free license to use your code inputs and the AI's outputs to improve their product.
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The provision allocates ownership rights while establishing Tabnine's operational authority to incorporate user-generated content and outputs into service development and improvement. This dual structure permits Tabnine to use the aggregate of user inputs and outputs as development material while preserving individual user ownership claims to specific outputs.
Removal of consolidated output ownership and licensing clause; functionality split into separate Input Data License and Warranty Disclaimer provisions, and output ownership language is absent from new version.
View full change record →Every code snippet you type into Tabnine and every AI-generated suggestion you receive can be used by Tabnine to improve its AI, meaning confidential or proprietary code may feed into a shared commercial AI model without additional restriction.
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"As between you and Tabnine, you own the output generated by the Services in response to your inputs ("Output"), subject to your compliance with these Terms. You grant Tabnine a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute the inputs you provide to the Services and the Outputs for the purposes of operating, improving, and developing the Services.Excerpt from Tabnine's Terms of Use
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The provision allocates ownership rights while establishing Tabnine's operational authority to incorporate user-generated content and outputs into service development and improvement. This dual structure permits Tabnine to use the aggregate of user inputs and outputs as development material while preserving individual user ownership claims to specific outputs.
Every code snippet you type into Tabnine and every AI-generated suggestion you receive can be used by Tabnine to improve its AI, meaning confidential or proprietary code may feed into a shared commercial AI model without additional restriction.
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