When you post videos, images, messages, or any other content on TikTok, you give TikTok a permanent, royalty-free license to use that content to run and improve the platform, including to train its AI systems. This license cannot be taken back once granted.
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The agreement states this license is irrevocable and explicitly covers training, testing, and improving machine learning models and algorithms, meaning content you post may be used for AI development purposes without additional compensation or the ability to revoke consent after posting.
This provision authorizes TikTok to use videos, images, messages, and AI prompt inputs you submit for AI model training on an irrevocable, royalty-free basis sublicensable to service providers and business partners, with no compensation obligation to users.
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"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
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages copyright law, as the scope of rights granted including adaptation and derivative works creation may interact with user copyright ownership claims.
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The agreement states this license is irrevocable and explicitly covers training, testing, and improving machine learning models and algorithms, meaning content you post may be used for AI development purposes without additional compensation or the ability to revoke consent after posting.
This provision authorizes TikTok to use videos, images, messages, and AI prompt inputs you submit for AI model training on an irrevocable, royalty-free basis sublicensable to service providers and business partners, with no compensation obligation to users.
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