“If your content is protected by intellectual property rights, you grant Waze a license to use, copy, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, modify, and create derivative works based on your content.”
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The license is broad in scope, covering not only reproduction and distribution but also modification and the creation of derivative works, meaning Waze can alter or build upon user-submitted content.
Interpretive note: The excerpt does not specify the duration, geographic scope, or sublicensability of the license; those terms may exist elsewhere in the agreement but are not present in the quoted language.
Users who submit content permit Waze to use it in a wide range of ways, including modifying it and creating new works derived from it.
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"If your content is protected by intellectual property rights, you grant Waze a license to use, copy, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, modify, and create derivative works based on your content.Excerpt from Waze's Terms of Use
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The license is broad in scope, covering not only reproduction and distribution but also modification and the creation of derivative works, meaning Waze can alter or build upon user-submitted content.
Users who submit content permit Waze to use it in a wide range of ways, including modifying it and creating new works derived from it.
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