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This indemnification clause creates a potentially significant and open-ended financial obligation for users, including legal defense costs, that persists indefinitely after account closure.
If your uploaded content triggers a copyright, privacy, or other third-party claim against YouTube, you are contractually obligated to cover YouTube's legal costs and damages — a potentially significant and open-ended financial liability that continues even after you close your account.
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"To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless YouTube, its Affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to the Service; (ii) your violation of any term of this Agreement; (iii) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; or (iv) any claim that your Content caused damage to a third party. This defense and indemnification obligation will survive this Agreement and your use of the Service.— Excerpt from YouTube Ads's YouTube Terms of Service
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This indemnification clause creates a potentially significant and open-ended financial obligation for users, including legal defense costs, that persists indefinitely after account closure.
If your uploaded content triggers a copyright, privacy, or other third-party claim against YouTube, you are contractually obligated to cover YouTube's legal costs and damages — a potentially significant and open-ended financial liability that continues even after you close your account.
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