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The clause establishes the operational scope of content use beyond direct platform distribution, specifically authorizing incorporation of user content into model training and algorithm development workflows. This framing creates a unified licensing structure that treats content optimization and AI model development as integral to platform operation rather than as separate commercial uses.
Users grant TikTok and designated third parties the right to process their submitted content—including text, images, and video—for machine learning applications without separate compensation or individualized consent for each derivative use. The provision permits this use continuously and without time limitation, though platform-level privacy settings may restrict visibility or processing scope.
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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, consistent with these Terms and subject to your Platform settings.— Excerpt from TikTok's TikTok Terms of Service
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The clause establishes the operational scope of content use beyond direct platform distribution, specifically authorizing incorporation of user content into model training and algorithm development workflows. This framing creates a unified licensing structure that treats content optimization and AI model development as integral to platform operation rather than as separate commercial uses.
Users grant TikTok and designated third parties the right to process their submitted content—including text, images, and video—for machine learning applications without separate compensation or individualized consent for each derivative use. The provision permits this use continuously and without time limitation, though platform-level privacy settings may restrict visibility or processing scope.
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