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The clause establishes Waze's operational right to deploy user-generated content (such as road reports, photos, or location information) across its platform and derivative services indefinitely, without ongoing licensing negotiations or royalty obligations. The sublicensable component permits Waze to authorize third parties to exercise these same rights.
Users who submit content to Waze authorize the company to incorporate, modify, and distribute that content perpetually and commercially without payment. The provision applies to all content submitted through the service, establishing Waze's ownership of usage rights rather than the user retaining control over submitted materials.
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"By submitting User Content to the Services, you grant Waze a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, translate, create derivative works of, and distribute any User Content you have submitted, in any media now existing or hereafter developed, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without any compensation to you.— Excerpt from Waze's Waze Terms of Use
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The clause establishes Waze's operational right to deploy user-generated content (such as road reports, photos, or location information) across its platform and derivative services indefinitely, without ongoing licensing negotiations or royalty obligations. The sublicensable component permits Waze to authorize third parties to exercise these same rights.
Users who submit content to Waze authorize the company to incorporate, modify, and distribute that content perpetually and commercially without payment. The provision applies to all content submitted through the service, establishing Waze's ownership of usage rights rather than the user retaining control over submitted materials.
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