“you grant to Tinder a worldwide, perpetual, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free right and license to host, store, use, copy, display, reproduce, adapt, edit, publish, translate, modify, reformat, incorporate into other works, advertise, distribute...”
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The license is perpetual and worldwide with no royalty owed to the user, meaning Tinder can exploit user content across a broad range of uses indefinitely and at no cost.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'distribute'; any additional uses or conditions in the remainder of the clause are not reflected here.
Tinder holds a permanent, royalty-free right to use your content in a wide range of ways, and that right can be transferred and sub-licensed to others.
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The license is perpetual and worldwide with no royalty owed to the user, meaning Tinder can exploit user content across a broad range of uses indefinitely and at no cost.
Tinder holds a permanent, royalty-free right to use your content in a wide range of ways, and that right can be transferred and sub-licensed to others.
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