By posting content on TikTok, users grant TikTok USDS Joint Venture a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, assignable, and sublicensable license to reproduce, distribute, adapt, create derivative works from, and publicly display that content, including for the purpose of training and improving TikTok's machine learning models and algorithms. This license extends to service providers and business partners through multiple sublicensing tiers.
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This provision authorizes TikTok to use all user-generated content, including Input submitted to generative AI interfaces, as training data for machine learning models and algorithms, and the license is designated as irrevocable and sublicensable through multiple tiers. The license persists after account deletion to the extent that content has been incorporated into other users' content, as stated in Section 3.6.
⚠ The license to use posted content, including for AI model training, applies as written to all content submitted to the Platform.
⚠ Content incorporated into other users' posts remains subject to the license even after account deletion, per Section 3.6.
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Compare across platforms →"By creating, inputting, publishing, and otherwise providing Your Content on or to the Platform, you grant to TikTok USDS Joint Venture a license to use Your Content that is: non-exclusive, irrevocable, and royalty-free (you retain the rights to use Your Content elsewhere, although we don't owe you any payments for sharing Your Content with us) assignable and sub-licensable, including through multiple tiers (so we can, for example, work with service providers and business partners to help distribute Your Content); and worldwide (so we can show your content to a global audience). 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, consistent with these Terms and subject to your Platform settings.Excerpt from TikTok's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The AI training use of user content may require evaluation under emerging U.S.
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This provision authorizes TikTok to use all user-generated content, including Input submitted to generative AI interfaces, as training data for machine learning models and algorithms, and the license is designated as irrevocable and sublicensable through multiple tiers. The license persists after account deletion to the extent that content has been incorporated into other users' content, as stated in Section 3.6.
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