You may not use the Services to build competing products, train AI models, or resell the Services
You may not access or use the Services, or help someone else do so, to develop products or services that compete with the Services. The Terms say this includes developing or training any artificial intelligence or machine learning algorithms or models, and reselling the Services.
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You may not access or use, or help another person to access or use, our Services in the following ways:
To develop any products or services that compete with our Services, including to develop or train any artificial intelligence or machine learning algorithms or models or resell the Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Section 13 says that if you breach Section 3, you agree Anthropic may seek injunctive relief without proving actual damage or posting a bond.
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The clause lists AI model training and resale as included examples of competing development; it does not say whether training a model that does not compete with the Services is still forbidden.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may not reverse engineer the Services unless the law forbids that restriction
You may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce the Services to human-readable form, or help someone else do so. The exception is where applicable law prohibits these restrictions.
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You may not access or use, or help another person to access or use, our Services in the following ways:
To decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce our Services to human-readable form, except when these restrictions are prohibited by applicable law.
Qualifications & exceptions
Section 13 says that if you breach Section 3, you agree Anthropic may seek injunctive relief without proving actual damage or posting a bond.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may not use the Services to infringe intellectual property, publicity or privacy rights
You may not use the Services, or help someone else use them, to infringe, misappropriate or violate intellectual property or other legal rights, including rights of publicity or privacy.
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You may not access or use, or help another person to access or use, our Services in the following ways:
To infringe, misappropriate, or violate intellectual property or other legal rights (including the rights of publicity or privacy).
Qualifications & exceptions
Section 13 says that if you breach Section 3, you agree Anthropic may seek injunctive relief without proving actual damage or posting a bond.
Content & IP Rights · Context
Inputs, Outputs, Actions and Materials are defined terms used throughout the Terms
The Terms define what you submit to the Services in any format as "Inputs". Responses the Services generate are "Outputs". Actions the Services take on your behalf based on your Inputs, such as software manipulation, data processing and system interactions, are "Actions". Inputs and Outputs together are "Materials"; Actions are not part of Materials.
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You may be allowed to interact with our Services in a variety of formats (we call these “Inputs”).
Our Services may generate responses (we call these “Outputs”), or enable the Services to take actions on your behalf, such as software manipulation, data processing, and system interactions (we call these "Actions"), based on your Inputs.
You are responsible for your Inputs and for Actions, and promise you have the rights needed
You are responsible for all Inputs you submit and for all Actions. By submitting Inputs, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses and permissions Anthropic needs to process those Inputs under the Terms and to provide the Services, for example to integrate with third-party services, share Materials with others at your direction, and take Actions. You also represent and warrant that submitting Inputs or directing Claude to take Actions will not violate the Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, or laws or regulations that apply to those Inputs or Actions.
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You are responsible for all Inputs you submit to our Services and all Actions.
By submitting Inputs to our Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, and permissions that are necessary for us to process the Inputs under our Terms and to provide the Services to you, including for example, to integrate with third-party services, to share Materials with others at your direction, and to take Actions.
You also represent and warrant that your submitting Inputs to us or directing Claude to take Actions will not violate our Terms, our [Acceptable Use Policy](https://anthropic.com/aup), or any laws or regulations applicable to those Inputs or Actions.
Qualifications & exceptions
Section 11 requires you to indemnify the Anthropic Parties for losses arising from your use of the Services, Materials or Actions and from breaches of these Terms.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You keep your rights in Inputs, and Anthropic assigns you whatever rights it has in Outputs
As between you and Anthropic, and to the extent applicable law permits, you keep whatever right, title and interest you have in the Inputs you submit. Subject to your compliance with the Terms, Anthropic assigns to you all of its right, title and interest in Outputs, if it has any.
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As between you and Anthropic, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you retain any right, title, and interest that you have in the Inputs you submit.
Subject to your compliance with our Terms, we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest—if any—in Outputs.
Qualifications & exceptions
The Output assignment covers only rights Anthropic has ("if any"); it does not promise that Outputs are protected by intellectual property rights or free of others' rights.
Retaining rights in Inputs does not limit Anthropic's permitted use of Materials described under "Our use of Materials".
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Giving Feedback is optional, but Anthropic may use any Feedback you give however it chooses, without paying you
You have no obligation to give Anthropic Feedback. If you do, you agree that Anthropic may use the Feedback however it chooses, with no obligation or payment to you.
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You have no obligation to give us Feedback, but if you do, you agree that we may use the Feedback however we choose without any obligation or other payment to you.
Qualifications & exceptions
Section 11's indemnity also covers losses arising from your Feedback.
Content & IP Rights · User right or choice
Third-party content is its provider's responsibility, and you can report content you think breaks the rules
Third-Party Content is the responsibility of whoever provides it to the Services, and Anthropic has no obligation to host or serve it. Third-Party Content may appear in Inputs or Outputs and so become part of Materials. If you see Third-Party Content you believe does not comply with the Terms, including the Acceptable Use Policy or the law, you can report it to Anthropic through the linked report form.
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Third-Party Content is the responsibility of the person or entity that provides it to our Services.
Anthropic is under no obligation to host or serve Third-Party Content.
Third-Party Content may appear in Inputs or Outputs and become part of Materials.
Qualifications & exceptions
Because Third-Party Content can become part of Materials, the Materials use and training terms in Section 4 can reach it.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Anthropic may remove infringing, rule-breaking or harmful third-party content, using algorithmic and human review
If Anthropic becomes aware that Third-Party Content (1) infringes copyright or another intellectual property or related right, (2) breaches the Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, or (3) may cause harm to Anthropic, its users or third parties, it reserves the right to remove some or all of it, using algorithmic and human review where appropriate. Information about monitoring and enforcement, including how to appeal an account suspension or termination, is in Anthropic's T&S Support Center.
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If we become aware that any Third-Party Content (1) infringes another’s copyright or any other intellectual property or related or neighboring right, (2) is in breach of these Terms or our Acceptable Use Policy, or (3) may cause harm to Anthropic, our users, or third parties, we reserve the right to remove or take down some or all of such Third-Party Content using, where appropriate, algorithmic and human review.
You can learn more about our monitoring and enforcement, including how to appeal an account suspension or termination, in our [T&S Support Center](https://support.anthropic.com/en/collections/4078535-trust-safety).
Qualifications & exceptions
The removal right is reserved, not promised: the Terms do not commit Anthropic to remove content.
Not stated here
The appeal process sits in the linked T&S Support Center, which is not supplied; this source does not describe how appeals work.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Anthropic may update its apps without notice, and open-source license terms control where they conflict
Anthropic may offer manual or automatic updates to its software, including its apps ("Anthropic Software"), without advance notice to you. Anthropic Software may include open source software. If these Terms conflict with other Anthropic or third-party terms that apply to part of the Anthropic Software, such as open-source licenses, those other terms control for that part and only to the extent of the conflict.
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We may offer manual or automatic updates to our software including our apps (“Anthropic Software”), without advance notice to you.
Anthropic Software may include open source software.
In the event of any conflict between these Terms and any other Anthropic or third-party terms applicable to any portion of Anthropic Software, such as open-source license terms, such other terms will control as to that portion of the Anthropic Software and to the extent of the conflict.
Qualifications & exceptions
Section 9 is among the sections that survive termination.
Content & IP Rights · Context
Anthropic and its Providers own the Services; the Terms give you only access and use rights
The Services are owned, operated and provided by Anthropic and its affiliates, licensors, distributors and service providers (together, "Providers"). Anthropic and its Providers keep all their rights, title and interest in the Services, including intellectual property rights. Apart from the access and use rights the Terms expressly grant, the Terms give you no right, title or interest in the Services.
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The Services are owned, operated, and provided by us and our affiliates, licensors, distributors, and service providers (collectively “Providers”).
We and our Providers retain all of our respective rights, title, and interest, including intellectual property rights, in and to the Services.
Other than the rights of access and use expressly granted in our Terms, our Terms do not grant you any right, title, or interest in or to our Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
This concerns the Services themselves; your rights in Inputs and the assignment of Anthropic's rights in Outputs are addressed separately in Section 4.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may not use Anthropic's name or logos to suggest affiliation or endorsement without written permission
Without Anthropic's prior written permission, you may not use its name, logos or other trademarks in connection with products or services other than the Services, or in any way that implies Anthropic's affiliation, endorsement or sponsorship. Permission requests go to marketing@anthropic.com.
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You may not, without our prior written permission, use our name, logos, or other trademarks in connection with products or services other than the Services, or in any other way that implies our affiliation, endorsement, or sponsorship.
To seek permission, please email us at marketing@anthropic.com.