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The scope of this license is operationally significant because it authorizes Zoom to extract and repurpose user-generated content across multiple functions and derivative applications without per-use compensation or time limitations. The sublicensable and transferable elements establish that Zoom may extend these rights to third parties and retain them through business transfers.
Interpretive note: The practical scope of AI training use and how it interacts with Zoom's separate Privacy Policy and Data Processing Addendum is not fully resolved within the terms alone; applicable law in EU and California may limit how this license applies to personal data.
Users agree that content provided through the service—including meeting recordings, chat messages, and uploaded files—becomes subject to Zoom's broad processing rights. This authorization extends to creating derivative works and processing content as training data or for other uses beyond the immediate service delivery.
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We may use Materials to provide, maintain, and improve the Services and to develop other products and services, including training our models, unless you opt out of training through your account settings. Even if you opt out, we will use Materials for model training when: (1) you provide Feedback to...
After registration, you may create, upload or transmit files, documents, videos, images, data or information as part of your use of the Service (collectively, "User Content"). This includes any inputs you provide to our AI-powered support tools and outputs generated in response to your inputs. User ...
engage in any of the foregoing in connection with any use, creation, development, modification, prompting, fine-tuning, training, testing, benchmarking or validation of any artificial intelligence or machine learning tool, model, system, algorithm, product or other technology ("AI Tool").
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"You agree to grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content and that Zoom may use the content, data, training data or other information or content provided by you in connection with your use of the Services.— Excerpt from Zoom's Zoom Terms of Service
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The scope of this license is operationally significant because it authorizes Zoom to extract and repurpose user-generated content across multiple functions and derivative applications without per-use compensation or time limitations. The sublicensable and transferable elements establish that Zoom may extend these rights to third parties and retain them through business transfers.
Users agree that content provided through the service—including meeting recordings, chat messages, and uploaded files—becomes subject to Zoom's broad processing rights. This authorization extends to creating derivative works and processing content as training data or for other uses beyond the immediate service delivery.
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