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Users grant Xbox broad rights to use their content across the Services without compensation, which persists for as long as the license applies.
Interpretive note: The excerpt uses 'for example' before listing specific uses, indicating the list is illustrative rather than exhaustive. The canonical claim reflects only the stated examples.
Content you submit to Xbox services may be copied, retained, transmitted, reformatted, displayed, and distributed by Xbox without payment to you.
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"you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, for example, to make copies of, retain, transmit, reformat, display, and distribute via communication tools Your Content on the Services.Excerpt from Xbox's Terms of Use
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Users grant Xbox broad rights to use their content across the Services without compensation, which persists for as long as the license applies.
Content you submit to Xbox services may be copied, retained, transmitted, reformatted, displayed, and distributed by Xbox without payment to you.
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