“Content” includes feed posts, feedback, comments, profiles, articles and contributions, group posts, job postings, messages including InMails, videos, photos, audio and PDFs. “Social Action” means actions members take such as likes, comments, follows and sharing content.
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Content includes, for example, feed posts, feedback, comments, profiles, articles (and contributions), group posts, job postings, messages (including InMails), videos, photos, audio, and/or PDFs
Actions that members take on our services such as likes, comments, follows, sharing content
LinkedIn need not publish content and can remove it, with or without notice
To the extent laws allow, LinkedIn says it is not obligated to publish any content or other information on the Services and can remove it with or without notice.
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To the extent that laws allow this, we are not obligated to publish any content or other information on our Services and can remove it with or without notice.
You own your original content but grant LinkedIn and Affiliates a broad license
As between you and LinkedIn, you own the original content you submit or post. You grant LinkedIn and its Affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publicly perform and display, host and process your content and other information without further consent, notice or compensation to you or others, subject to the listed limits.
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you own your original
You grant LinkedIn and our Affiliates the following non-exclusive license to the content and other information you provide (e.g., share, post, upload, and/or otherwise submit) to our Services
A worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publicly perform and display, host, and process your content and other information without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others.
These rights are limited in the following ways:
Qualifications & exceptions
The license is non-exclusive and is stated to be limited by the bullets that follow.
You can end the license by deleting content or closing your account
You can end the license for specific content by deleting it, or generally by closing your account. The exceptions are content others copied, re-shared or stored after you shared it; content LinkedIn already sublicensed before removal or closure; content LinkedIn must retain or share by law; and the reasonable time needed to remove deleted content from backup and other systems.
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You can end this license for specific content by deleting such content from the Services, or generally by closing your account
(1) shared it with others as part of the Services and they copied, re-shared it or stored it
(2) we had already sublicensed others prior to your content removal or closing of your account
(3) we are required by law to retain or share it with others
for the reasonable time it takes to remove the content you delete from backup and other systems
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No specific backup-removal period is stated (“reasonable time”).
related (model-proposed): What survives termination — Survival provisions preserve some rights after termination.
Content & IP Rights · Company commitment
No use of your content in third-party ads without separate consent
LinkedIn says it will not include your content in advertisements for third parties' products and services shown to others, including sponsored content, without your separate consent.
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We will not include your content in advertisements for the products and services of third parties to others without your separate consent (including sponsored content).
LinkedIn may edit or reformat content but aims not to change its meaning
LinkedIn may edit and change the format of your content, such as translating or transcribing it, changing size, layout or file type, and removing or adding labels or metadata. It says it will take steps to avoid materially modifying the meaning of your expression in content you share with others.
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While we may edit and make format changes to your content (such as translating or transcribing it, modifying the size, layout or file type, and removing or adding labels or metadata)
we will take steps to avoid materially modifying the meaning of your expression in content you share with others
Qualifications & exceptions
The meaning-preservation commitment is to “take steps to avoid” material changes, applies to content shared with others.
You may license your own content to others, such as under Creative Commons
Because you own your original content and LinkedIn has only non-exclusive rights, you may make it available to others, including under the terms of a Creative Commons license.
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Because you own your original content and we only have non-exclusive rights to it, you may choose to make it available to others, including under the terms of a Creative Commons license
Feedback can be used and shared for any purpose without compensation
When you submit suggestions or other feedback about the Services, you agree LinkedIn can use and share it (but does not have to) for any purpose without compensation to you.
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By submitting suggestions or other feedback regarding our Services to LinkedIn, you agree that LinkedIn can use and share (but does not have to) such feedback for any purpose without compensation to you.
Cross-references
related (model-proposed): What survives termination — LinkedIn's rights to use and disclose feedback survive termination.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You promise to share only content you have rights to; profile must be truthful
You agree to provide only content and information that does not violate the law or anyone's rights, including intellectual property rights, and that the profile information you provide will be truthful. You have choices about how much profile information to provide. LinkedIn may be required by law to remove certain content in certain countries.
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You agree to only provide content and other information that does not violate the law or anyone’s rights (including intellectual property rights).
You have choices about how much information to provide on your profile but also agree that the profile information you provide will be truthful.
LinkedIn may be required by law to remove certain content and other information in certain countries.
data: content · data: identifiers
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
LinkedIn can remove content it believes violates its policies or the Contract
LinkedIn says it can remove any content or information you shared if it believes the content violates the Professional Community Policies, the Dos and Don'ts or otherwise violates the Contract.
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We can also remove any content or other information you shared if we believe it violates our Professional Community Policies or Dos and Don’ts or otherwise violates this Contract
Qualifications & exceptions
Based on LinkedIn's belief that a violation exists.
LinkedIn reserves its intellectual property rights and trademarks
LinkedIn reserves all its intellectual property rights in the Services. Third-party trademarks and logos used with the Services belong to their owners, and LinkedIn's “in” logos, name and other marks are LinkedIn's trademarks or registered trademarks.
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LinkedIn reserves all of its intellectual property rights in the Services.
Trademarks and logos used in connection with the Services are the trademarks of their respective owners.
LinkedIn, and “in” logos and other LinkedIn trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used for our Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of LinkedIn
No copying or distributing Services information without owner consent
You agree not to copy, use, display or distribute information, including content, obtained from the Services, whether directly or through third parties such as search tools, data aggregators or brokers, without the consent of the content owner, such as LinkedIn for content it owns.
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Copy, use, display or distribute any information (including content) obtained from the Services, whether directly or through third parties (such as search tools or data aggregators or brokers), without the consent of the content owner (such as LinkedIn for content it owns)
You agree not to violate others' intellectual property rights, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets or other proprietary rights. The example given is not copying or distributing others' posts or content without permission, other than through available sharing functionality; permission may be given by posting under a Creative Commons license.
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Violate the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets or other proprietary rights.
do not copy or distribute (except through the available sharing functionality) the posts or other content of others without their permission, which they may give by posting under a Creative Commons license
No violating LinkedIn’s IP or misusing its name and logos
You agree not to violate LinkedIn's intellectual property or other rights, including copying or distributing its learning videos or other materials, copying or distributing its technology unless released under open source licenses, or using the word “LinkedIn” or its logos in any business name, email or URL except as provided in the Brand Guidelines.
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Violate the intellectual property or other rights of LinkedIn, including, without limitation, (i) copying or distributing our learning videos or other materials, (ii) copying or distributing our technology, unless it is released under open source licenses; or (iii) using the word “LinkedIn” or our logos in any business name, email, or URL except as provided in the Brand Guidelines
No reverse engineering, reselling, framing, overlays or deep-linking
Without LinkedIn's consent where stated, you agree not to reverse engineer or decompile the Services or related non-open-source technology, rent, lease, sell or otherwise monetize the Services or related data or access, deep-link to the Services other than to promote your profile or a Group, frame or mirror the Services, or overlay or modify their appearance, including hiding or covering an advertisement.
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Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Services or any related technology that is not open source
Rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/re-sell or otherwise monetize the Services or related data or access to the same, without LinkedIn’s consent
Deep-link to our Services for any purpose other than to promote your profile or a Group on our Services, without LinkedIn’s consent
Engage in “framing”, “mirroring”, or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Services
Overlay or otherwise modify the Services or their appearance (such as by inserting elements into the Services or removing, covering, or obscuring an advertisement included on the Services)
Qualifications & exceptions
Consent language appears on some items (monetizing, deep-linking) but not all.
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
LinkedIn has a policy and process for copyright and trademark complaints
LinkedIn says it respects others' intellectual property rights and requires information shared by Members to be accurate and not to violate third parties' intellectual property or other rights. It provides a policy and process for complaints about content shared, and trademarks used, by Members.
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We respect the intellectual property rights of others.
We require that information shared by Members be accurate and not in violation of the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties.
for complaints concerning content shared, and/or
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The Copyright Policy and trademark process were not supplied.