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The license grant means YouTube Ads acquires broad rights to use submitted Content globally and can sublicense or transfer those rights, without paying the user a royalty.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'prepare derivative works', suggesting additional licensed uses exist. The canonical claim covers only the explicitly quoted uses.
Users who submit Content to the Service automatically grant YouTube Ads a worldwide, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, and create derivative works from that Content, and YouTube Ads may sublicense or transfer that license.
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You do not have any rights in relation to Member Content, and, unless expressly authorized by Tinder, you may only use Member Content to the extent that your use is consistent with our Services' purpose...
We hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license under the rights licensable by us to use the services and use Content from our services solely for your personal use...
...you grant to users of your model a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, store, and create derivative works from your LoRA and its output.
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The license grant means YouTube Ads acquires broad rights to use submitted Content globally and can sublicense or transfer those rights, without paying the user a royalty.
Users who submit Content to the Service automatically grant YouTube Ads a worldwide, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, and create derivative works from that Content, and YouTube Ads may sublicense or transfer that license.
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