Definitions: Content is broad; Repositories are public or private
'Content' means any material posted, displayed or accessed on the Website or Hub, including code, data, text, graphics, images, applications or software, whether provided by the user, Hugging Face or any third party. A 'Repository' holds project files and full revision history and may be public (anyone on the internet can see it; only the owner or organization members can change it) or private (only the owner or organization members can see and change it).
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any material posted, displayed, or accessed on our Website or Hub, including but not limited to code, data, text, graphics, images, applications, or software you, we, or any third party provide or make available
a data structure which contains all of the project files and the entire revision history
A Repository may be public (i.e. anyone on the internet can see it, but only you or members of your organization can make changes) or private (i.e. only you or members of your organization can see and make changes to the repository).
Qualifications & exceptions
Because Content includes material from Hugging Face and third parties, clauses about 'Content' (user responsibility, risk when downloading, as-is disclaimer) reach more than the user's own uploads.
Public/private status changes who can see the repository and, under the Your Content section, which license applies.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You are solely responsible for your Content and for others you authorize on your Account
The user is solely responsible for the Content they post, publish, display or otherwise make available on the Website, and for any other action or omission resulting from their use of the Services (including Hugging Face's Content or other users' Content), or from use by a person or entity the user has authorized under the Account. The Indemnity section separately requires the user to defend Hugging Face against claims arising from any Content or data posted or used by the user.
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You are solely responsible for the Content you post, publish, display or otherwise make available on our Website
for any other action or omission that results from your use of the Services
or the use by a person or an entity that you have authorized under your Account.
any Content or data posted or used by you
Qualifications & exceptions
Responsibility reaches actions of people the user has authorized under their Account.
The Indemnity section carves out Hugging Face's own fraud, gross negligence, recklessness or willful or criminal misconduct.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You warrant you have the rights to your Content and that it is lawful
The user represents and warrants that they have ownership, control and responsibility for the Content they post, or otherwise have the right to post it. Content must not be misleading or unlawful, must not violate the Terms or applicable law, and must not infringe or misappropriate anyone's rights.
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You represent and warrant that you have ownership, control, and responsibility for the Content you post or otherwise make available on our Website, or otherwise have the right to do so.
Your Content must not be misleading or unlawful, and must not violate any of these Terms, applicable law and regulation, or infringe or misappropriate any rights of any person or entity.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Hugging Face may remove your Content at any time at its sole discretion
Hugging Face may remove a user's Content at any time, at its sole discretion, if it has a concern about the Content.
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We may remove your Content at any time, at our sole discretion, if we have a concern about your Content.
Qualifications & exceptions
The trigger is a 'concern' about the Content; no notice, explanation or appeal process is described in this passage.
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Whether the user is notified or can recover removed Content is not stated here.
Content & IP Rights · Company commitment
You own your Content; Hugging Face says it will not sell it
Hugging Face states that the user owns the Content they create and that it will not sell the user's Content. The same sentence adds that Hugging Face will not use it 'in any other way as permitted under these Terms', which is awkwardly worded; the actual permitted uses are set by the license grant and the Privacy Policy cross-reference that follow.
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You own the Content you create! We will not sell your Content, nor will we use it in any other way as permitted under these Terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
The statement is immediately followed by 'However', introducing the license to Hugging Face and the effects of public or private repository settings.
The no-sale statement does not itself say whether Hugging Face can use the Content for other purposes the Terms permit, such as providing the Services.
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The phrase 'nor will we use it in any other way as permitted under these Terms' is ambiguous: it is unclear whether it limits use to what the Terms permit or states a further prohibition.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
License you give Hugging Face to use, display, reproduce and make derivatives of your Content
By posting Content or making it available on the Website, the user grants Hugging Face a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute and make derivative works of that Content to provide the Services and as otherwise permitted under the Terms and the Privacy Policy.
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by posting your Content or otherwise making it available on our Website, you must be aware that:
You hereby grant us a worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of such Content to provide Services and as otherwise permitted under these Terms and our Privacy Policy
Qualifications & exceptions
The purpose has two parts: providing the Services, and anything else 'permitted under these Terms and our Privacy Policy'. The Privacy Policy is not supplied here, so the full scope of the second part is unknown.
Non-exclusive: the user keeps ownership and can license elsewhere (see ownership statement).
A separate Feedback / aggregated-data clause in the Intellectual Property section gives Hugging Face additional rights over feedback and data about use of the Services; it is carried in its own card.
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No duration is stated; whether the license ends when Content is deleted or the account is cancelled is not said in this passage (the Termination section discusses deletion of Content from own Repositories within 90 days).
Sublicensing rights are not mentioned.
These Terms do not say in this passage whether Content may be used to train or improve models; any such use would depend on the unsupplied Privacy Policy and Supplemental Terms.
Public repositories: every User gets a perpetual, irrevocable license to your Content
The user's Content will be viewed by others. If the user sets a Repository public, the user grants each User a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute and make derivative works of that Content through Hugging Face's Services and functionalities.
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Your Content will be viewed by others, and therefore:
If you decide to set your Repository public, you grant each User a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of your Content through our Services and functionalities;
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies only to Repositories the user chooses to set public; the license runs to each User and is limited to use 'through our Services and functionalities'.
Content that carries a reasonable and customary license, such as an open source license, is intended to stay under that license when further used.
The Termination section says Hugging Face will not delete copies made by other Users.
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Whether this license continues if the user later makes the Repository private or deletes it is not stated; as worded it is 'perpetual, irrevocable'.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Content carrying an open source or similar license stays under that license
When Content carries notice of a reasonable and customary license, such as an open source license, it is intended to stay under that license when further accessed, distributed or used, and neither party may remove reference to the license. The Intellectual Property section adds that the Terms do not limit the user's rights under, or override, an applicable open source license, although the liability limits and disclaimers still apply to such material.
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When Content contains notice of a reasonable and customary license, (such as an open source license) such Content is intended to remain under the terms of such license when further accessed, distributed, or used.
Neither party is permitted to remove reference to any such license.
Nothing in these Terms limit your rights under, or grants you rights that supersede, the terms and conditions of any applicable Open Source license.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to Content bearing a license notice; the Intellectual Property section's Open Source clause is the fuller statement.
Content you download or use from Hugging Face or other Users is at your own risk
Any Content the user downloads, accesses or uses from Hugging Face or another User is at the user's own risk and subject to these Terms and/or the terms that accompany that Content.
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Any Content you download, access or use from us or another User, is at your own risk and subject to these Terms and/or the terms accompanying such Content.
Qualifications & exceptions
The Disclaimer of Warranties section separately provides Services and Content 'as is'.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Hugging Face keeps its intellectual property; you may not copy or license its materials without written permission
Hugging Face retains ownership of its intellectual property in the Website and Services, including improvements, and of all materials it produces (Website, design, code, graphics, interfaces, trademarks and logo). The user may not alter, reproduce, republish or license those proprietary materials without Hugging Face's express written permission. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
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We retain ownership of all of our intellectual property rights related to the Website and the Services, including all improvements to the Services.
You may not alter, reproduce, republish, license any of our proprietary materials, unless we expressly give you a written permission to do so.
All rights not expressly granted are reserved and retained by us.
Qualifications & exceptions
Open source items provided with the Services remain under their own open source licenses; see the Open Source card.
Breach of Hugging Face's intellectual property rights is one of the exceptions to the liability cap, as it applies to the user's liability.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Nothing limits Hugging Face's use of its general knowledge, skills and know-how
The Terms are not intended to limit Hugging Face's use of the knowledge, skills, experience, ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques it develops or learns at any time, without limitation.
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Nothing in these Terms is intended to limit our use of our knowledge, skills, experience, ideas, concepts, know-how and/or techniques developed or learned at any time, without limitation.
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It is not stated whether this extends to information learned from user Content; the Content license and Privacy Policy cross-reference are the stated limits on use of Content.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Feedback you give Hugging Face is licensed to it perpetually, and it says it will own it
If the user provides feedback on the use, operation, performance or functionality of the Website, Services or business, the user grants Hugging Face a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive right and license to exploit and commercialize the Feedback, improve the Services and develop or commercialize new offerings, and the text says Hugging Face will solely and exclusively own the Feedback.
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If you provide us feedback regarding the use, operation, performance, or functionality of our Website, Services, or business
you hereby grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive right and license to exploit and commercialize the Feedback, improve the Services, and develop and/or commercialize new offerings, which we will solely and exclusively own.
Qualifications & exceptions
Covers feedback about the Website, Services or Hugging Face's business, not the user's Content generally.
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The grant is described as a non-exclusive license, while the same sentence says Hugging Face will 'solely and exclusively own' the Feedback; how these fit together is not explained.
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
Copyright complaints go to dmca@huggingface.co and must not knowingly be misleading
Hugging Face says it complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Anyone who claims content on the Website infringes their intellectual property rights may send a complaint with detailed and accurate supporting information to dmca@huggingface.co, and represents and warrants that they will not knowingly provide misleading information.
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If you have any claims that any content on our Website violates or infringes your intellectual property rights, you may send your complaint to dmca@huggingface.co with detailed and accurate information supporting your claim.
You also represent and warrant that you will not knowingly provide misleading information to support your claim.
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Counter-notice, repeat-infringer and takedown timing steps are not described in these Terms.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Open source and Creative Commons items keep their own licenses, but liability limits and disclaimers still apply
Items provided with the Services may be under open source, Creative Commons or similar licenses. Those license terms are not replaced or overridden by the Terms, and nothing in the Terms limits the user's rights under them, but the limitations of liability, the disclaimers and this provision apply to that Open Source material. If Hugging Face or the user modifies Open Source and the license requires the modifications be made available, and they are not already published via the open source community, they will be made available on applicable websites.
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The Open Source license terms are not intended to be replaced or overridden by the license and other terms of these Terms; however, the limitations of liabilities, disclaimers, and this provision apply to any such Open Source.
Nothing in these Terms limit your rights under, or grants you rights that supersede, the terms and conditions of any applicable Open Source license.
then modifications will be available on applicable websites.
Qualifications & exceptions
Open source license terms control the user's rights in the open source item; the Terms' liability limits and disclaimers still apply to it.
Content & IP Rights · Context
Some Services have their own intellectual property terms in Supplemental Terms or signed documents
Certain Services may be governed by specific intellectual property terms stated in the Supplemental Terms or in a binding document signed between the parties, which are fully incorporated into the Agreement.
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Certain Services may be governed by specific intellectual property terms which are stated in the Supplemental Terms and/or in any other binding document signed between us, and which are fully incorporated into the Agreement between us.
Qualifications & exceptions
Signed documents and Supplemental Terms rank above these Terms of Service in the Order of Precedence if they conflict.
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The Supplemental Terms are not supplied, so any service-specific intellectual property terms are unknown.