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The provision establishes the operational scope of TikTok's content usage rights beyond displaying content to other users. It authorizes derivative works creation and algorithmic training activities as part of the licensed uses, which defines the permitted technical applications of uploaded content.
Users grant TikTok rights to use their uploaded content for machine learning model training, testing, and improvement, as well as for developing new services and technologies. This authorization applies to content users post to the platform and extends to designated service providers and business partners.
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"Our license to use Your Content includes our rights to access, reproduce (e.g. to copy), distribute, share, download, adapt or make derivative works (e.g. to translate and/or create captions), perform, and communicate Your Content to the public (e.g. to display it), for the purposes of operating, improving, and providing the Platform and developing new technologies (including training, testing, and improving our machine learning models and algorithms) and services for TikTok USDS Joint Venture and our service providers and business partners.— Excerpt from TikTok's TikTok Terms of Service
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The provision establishes the operational scope of TikTok's content usage rights beyond displaying content to other users. It authorizes derivative works creation and algorithmic training activities as part of the licensed uses, which defines the permitted technical applications of uploaded content.
Users grant TikTok rights to use their uploaded content for machine learning model training, testing, and improvement, as well as for developing new services and technologies. This authorization applies to content users post to the platform and extends to designated service providers and business partners.
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