Commercial use of TikTok Content, others' content or AI features restricted
You may not use TikTok Content, another user's content, or generative AI-enabled features for commercial purposes unless TikTok or the user, respectively, permits it, including via account settings. You also may not violate or exceed the license terms in Section 3.5.
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use TikTok Content (as defined in Section 3.5), another user's content or generative AI-enabled features for commercial purposes unless permitted by TikTok USDS Joint Venture or the user, respectively (including via applicable account settings),
violate or exceed the license terms in Section 3.5.
Content & IP Rights · User right or choice
You own Your Content, including messages and AI inputs and outputs
“Your Content” includes content you create, import, upload, publish or generate, including messages, plus prompts and other Input you submit to AI interfaces and the Output they generate. Except for TikTok Content and unless expressly stated otherwise, as between you and TikTok, you own Your Content.
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Your Content includes content you create, import, upload, publish, or generate with the Platform, including messages.
Your Content also includes prompts, questions, files, and other types of information that you submit to our AI-powered interfaces ("Input") together with the responses those interfaces generate ("Output").
Except with respect to TikTok Content and unless expressly stated otherwise, as between you and TikTok USDS Joint Venture, you own Your Content.
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Content & IP Rights · Context
AI output may not be unique to you
Because of the nature of generative AI, Output may not be unique to one user, and your ownership of Output does not extend to other users’ output.
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Due to the nature of generative AI, output may not be unique to a specific user, and your ownership of Output does not extend to other users' output.
TikTok may use your feedback freely and owns what it builds from it
If you submit comments, ideas or feedback, TikTok may use them for any purpose in connection with the Platform and other services, without restriction or compensation, and need not act on, return or keep them confidential. TikTok will own all rights in anything it develops from them.
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If you choose to submit comments, ideas, or feedback to us, you give us permission to use them in connection with the Platform and any other services that we choose, for any purpose, without any restriction or compensation to you.
You agree that we do not have to consider or act on them, return them, or keep them confidential. We will own all rights in anything we develop based on your comments, ideas, or feedback.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You warrant you hold all rights in Your Content, including music
You represent and warrant that you have, and will continue to have, all rights, licenses, consents and permissions needed for Your Content on the Platform. This expressly includes music you use that was not selected from the TikTok music library.
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You represent and warrant that you have, and will continue to have, all necessary rights in and to Your Content, including licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to create, post, input, and distribute Your Content on the Platform.
this includes any music that you use which was not selected from the TikTok music library
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
TikTok Content is provided for use; rights stay with TikTok or owners
TikTok may make content such as images, designs, videos, filters, text, music or sounds (“TikTok Content”) available for you to use under the Terms. TikTok or the rights holders retain all rights in it.
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we may make certain content available on the Platform for you to use in accordance with these Terms, including images, designs, videos, filters, text, music, or sounds (“TikTok Content”). We, or the rights holders of such content that let us provide it to you, retain all rights in and to the TikTok Content.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Irrevocable, sublicensable worldwide license to TikTok
By providing Your Content, you grant TikTok a license that is non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, assignable and sub-licensable through multiple tiers, and worldwide. You keep the right to use Your Content elsewhere, but TikTok owes no payment, and sublicensing is explained as letting it work with service providers and business partners to distribute Your Content.
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By creating, inputting, publishing, and otherwise providing Your Content on or to the Platform, you grant to TikTok USDS Joint Venture a license to use Your Content that is:
non-exclusive, irrevocable, and royalty-free (you retain the rights to use Your Content elsewhere, although we don't owe you any payments for sharing Your Content with us)
assignable and sub-licensable, including through multiple tiers (so we can, for example, work with service providers and business partners to help distribute Your Content); and
worldwide (so we can show your content to a global audience).
including the obligations set out in: Section 3.5 “Ownership of content and grant of licenses,”
License covers operating the Platform and training ML models
The license lets TikTok access, reproduce, distribute, share, download, adapt, create derivative works, perform and display Your Content. Stated purposes are operating, improving and providing the Platform and developing new technologies, including training, testing and improving machine learning models and algorithms, and services for TikTok and its service providers and business partners, “subject to your Platform settings”.
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Our license to use Your Content includes our rights to access, reproduce (e.g. to copy), distribute, share, download, adapt or make derivative works (e.g. to translate and/or create captions), perform, and communicate Your Content to the public (e.g. to display it)
for the purposes of operating, improving, and providing the Platform and developing new technologies (including training, testing, and improving our machine learning models and algorithms) and services for TikTok USDS Joint Venture and our service providers and business partners, consistent with these Terms and subject to your Platform settings
Other users get a perpetual, irrevocable license to Your Content
Depending on your usage, sharing activities and settings, you also grant each Platform user a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to use Your Content. This includes downloading, adapting and making derivative works such as including Your Content in their own content, in accordance with the Terms.
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Depending on your Platform usage, including your sharing activities and settings, you also grant to each user of the Platform a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable, worldwide license to use Your Content
download, adapt or make derivative works (e.g. to include Your Content in their content)
in accordance with these Terms
Qualifications & exceptions
Depends on your Platform usage, sharing activities and settings.
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Content & IP Rights · Context
TikTok reserves all rights in the Platform and its AI features
TikTok retains all rights, including intellectual property, in the Platform and its generative AI-enabled features, and reserves all rights not expressly granted.
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We retain all our respective rights, title, and interest, including intellectual property and other proprietary rights, in and to the Platform, including its generative AI-enabled features, and we reserve all rights not expressly granted in these Terms.
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
IP Policy applies; report copyright and trademark claims
You agree to TikTok’s Intellectual Property Policy and are expected to respect others’ IP. Suspected infringements of your rights can be reported through dedicated copyright and trademark/counterfeiting report pages.
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We respect copyright and other intellectual property rights and expect for you to do the same. You agree to the terms of our [Intellectual Property Policy]
You can report suspected infringements of your intellectual property rights on the Platform here:
Copyright:
Trademark and Counterfeiting:
Not stated here
The Intellectual Property Policy was not supplied.