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Under this clause, content submitted to Writer is licensed to the company for use in providing and improving the services, including potential use in model training or refinement. The license is worldwide, royalty-free, and extends to any distribution method developed in the future.
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The license scope includes the right to use content to improve the services, which may encompass use of submitted content to train or refine Writer's AI models. The phrase 'any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed' is broad in temporal and channel scope. Enterprise customers submitting confidential business information should evaluate this license against their …
Under this clause, content submitted to Writer is licensed to the company for use in providing and improving the services, including potential use in model training or refinement. The license is worldwide, royalty-free, and extends to any distribution method developed in the future.
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