Microsoft does not claim ownership of user-created, uploaded, or shared content; content remains the user's property and responsibility.
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We don’t claim ownership of Your Content. Your Content remains yours and you are responsible for it.
Qualifications & exceptions
User retains ownership and responsibility
data: user_content · purpose: service_operation
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Worldwide royalty-free service content license to Microsoft
To the extent necessary to provide the services, protect users and services, and improve Microsoft products and services, Microsoft receives a worldwide, royalty-free license to copy, retain, transmit, reformat, display and distribute your content.
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To the extent necessary to provide the Services to you and others, to protect you and the Services, and to improve Microsoft products and services, you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, for example, to make copies of, retain, transmit, reformat, display, and distribute via communication tools Your Content on the Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Limited to the extent necessary for the stated purposes.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Software license permits one copy per device and one user at a time
Compliance with the terms permits installing and using one copy per device worldwide, for one person at a time. Some preinstalled software is for personal, noncommercial use. Separately licensed software and Store applications follow their applicable licenses.
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Unless accompanied by a separate Microsoft license agreement
one copy of the software per device on a worldwide basis for use by only one person at a time
Qualifications & exceptions
Separate licenses and Store terms can govern instead.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Software licensed not sold and reservation of rights
Software is licensed and not sold, with Microsoft reserving all rights not expressly granted to the user.
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The software is licensed, not sold, and Microsoft reserves all rights to the software not expressly granted by Microsoft, whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise. This license does not give you any right to, and you may not:
Qualifications & exceptions
Licensed, not sold
purpose: license_grant
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Prohibition against decompilation and reverse engineering
Disassembling, decompiling, hacking, or reverse engineering software is prohibited, except to the extent permitted by applicable copyright law.
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ii. disassemble, decompile, decrypt, hack, emulate, exploit, or reverse engineer any software or other aspect of the Services that is included in or accessible through the Services, except and only to the extent that the applicable copyright law expressly permits doing so;
Qualifications & exceptions
Except where strictly permitted by copyright law
purpose: intellectual_property_protection
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Prohibition against commercial distribution and resale
Users may not copy, rent, lease, sell, export, import, distribute, or lend Microsoft software or services without express authorization.
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iv. publish, copy, rent, lease, sell, export, import, distribute, or lend the software or the Services, unless Microsoft expressly authorizes you to do so;
Qualifications & exceptions
Prohibits unauthorized distribution and commercialization
purpose: intellectual_property_protection
Content & IP Rights · User right or choice
Ownership of AI inputs and outputs allocation
Microsoft does not claim ownership of user inputs or generated outputs; users are responsible for determining copyright status under applicable laws.
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Microsoft doesn't claim ownership of any content you provide, post, input, or submit to, or receive from, the AI services (including feedback and suggestions). You'll need to make your own determination regarding the intellectual property rights you have in output content and its usability, taking into account, among other things, your usage scenario(s) and the laws of the relevant jurisdiction. You warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your content as described in these Terms including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input, or submit the content.
Xbox content and profile details carry a worldwide use license
Posting content or specified profile details for Xbox grants Microsoft, its affiliates and sublicensees a free worldwide right to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, broadcast, share and display them.
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you grant to Microsoft, its affiliates and sublicensees a free and worldwide right to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, broadcast, share and display Your Content or your name, gamertag, motto, or avatar that you posted for any XBOX Services.
Content & IP Rights · Context
Store apps generally use the publisher's standard license unless replaced
Unless an app supplies different license terms, the Standard Application License Terms at the end of this agreement govern the license between the user and the identified app publisher. Office Store apps instead have separate licenses. Microsoft service terms and the third-party-service provisions still apply where specified.
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Unless different license terms are provided with the application, the Standard Application License Terms
are an agreement between you and the application publisher
Applications downloaded through the Office Store are not governed by the SALT and have separate license terms that apply.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Bing and MSN materials are limited to personal, noncommercial use
Other use of Bing or MSN materials, including copying, redistribution or building products from them, requires authorization from Microsoft or the rights holder unless copyright law permits it. Certain countries’ Bing Maps bird’s-eye imagery also requires separate written approval for government use.
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are for your noncommercial, personal use only.
are permitted only to the extent specifically authorized by Microsoft or rights holders, or allowed by applicable copyright law.
You may not use Bird’s eye imagery of the United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia or Japan for governmental use without our separate written approval.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Bing Places submissions grant a sublicensable worldwide license
Providing data or content to Bing Places grants Microsoft a worldwide royalty-free license to use, copy, store, modify, aggregate, promote, transmit, display and distribute it, including sublicensing these rights to third parties.
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you grant Microsoft a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, save, modify, aggregate, promote, transmit, display, and distribute your Data and Your Content
sub-license any or all of the foregoing rights to third parties.
Content & IP Rights · Context
Microsoft 365 apps have supplemental licenses and Outlook map-use limits
Microsoft 365 apps and subscriptions are subject to supplemental license terms alongside this agreement. Bing Maps content supplied through Outlook, including geocodes, can be used only within the product supplying it and is also subject to the linked map terms and privacy statement.
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is governed by supplemental license terms
Any content provided through Bing Maps, including geocodes, can only be used within the product through which the content is provided.
Not stated here
The linked Microsoft 365 license and Bing Maps end-user terms are not supplied here.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Digital goods carry use restrictions and can be removed without notice
Microsoft digital goods are for personal, noncommercial entertainment. Users agree not to redistribute, publicly perform or display, transfer copies, or modify them. Rights remain subject to this agreement, copyright law and linked usage rules; Microsoft or the owner may remove goods from the service without notice.
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The Digital Goods are only for your personal, noncommercial entertainment use.
You agree not to redistribute, broadcast, publicly perform or publicly display or transfer any copies of the Digital Goods.
You agree that you will not attempt to modify any Digital Goods obtained through any of the Services for any reason whatsoever
Microsoft or the owners of the Digital Goods may, from time to time, remove Digital Goods from the Services without notice.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Microsoft may commercialize feedback without paying the user
Microsoft reserves intellectual-property rights not expressly licensed. Supplying feedback grants it the right to use, adapt, share and commercialize that feedback for any purpose without payment or other obligation. Users must not supply feedback under licenses that would force Microsoft to license its own software or documentation to third parties.
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without charge, royalties or other obligation to you, the right to make, have made, create derivative works, use, share and commercialize your Feedback in any way and for any purpose.
You will not give Feedback that is subject to a license that requires Microsoft to license its software, technologies or documentation to any third party
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Infringement notices use specified procedures, with sanctions for repeat misuse
Microsoft incorporates its linked infringement procedures. It may disable or terminate repeat-infringer accounts and, in appropriate circumstances, stop processing notices from people who frequently submit unfounded claims. Advertising complaints and brand use also refer to separate incorporated guidelines.
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which procedures form part of these Terms.
Microsoft may also disable or terminate accounts of users of Microsoft services who may be repeat infringers.
Microsoft may suspend processing notices by individuals or entities that frequently submit unfounded notices.
regarding intellectual property concerns on our advertising network.
The Terms incorporate
Not stated here
The linked infringement procedures, advertising guidelines and brand guidelines are separate documents.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Financial data is for personal use and cannot underpin investment products without permission
Financial information is limited to personal, noncommercial use. Using a third-party licensor’s financial data or marks to create, market or trade financial instruments or investment products requires a separate written agreement with that licensor.
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Financial information provided through the Services is for your personal, noncommercial use only.
without a separate written agreement with the third-party licensor.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Video-codec technology has separate patent-license limits
The H.264/AVC and VC-1 notice limits its patent license to specified personal, noncommercial encoding and decoding. A clarification preserves normal internal business use that does not redistribute software or create video for third-party distribution. H.265/HEVC technology may have separate patent coverage depending on how the software was obtained.
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FOR THE PERSONAL AND NONCOMMERCIAL USE OF A CONSUMER
NO LICENSE IS GRANTED OR SHALL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE.
does not limit or inhibit the use of the software provided under these Terms for normal business uses that are personal to that business
DEPENDING ON HOW YOU OBTAINED THE SOFTWARE, THIS PRODUCT MAY BE LICENSED UNDER THE HEVC ADVANCE PATENT PORTFOLIO.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Downloading a Store app accepts its publisher license, unless separate terms apply
The standard US app license is between the user and the Store-identified publisher and covers apps, updates and supplements unless the app supplies separate terms. Downloading, using or attempting either accepts the license. Installation and use are governed by Microsoft’s usage rules, which it may change.
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These license terms are an agreement between you and the application publisher.
unless the application comes with separate terms, in which case those terms apply.
BY DOWNLOADING OR USING THE APPLICATION, OR ATTEMPTING TO DO ANY OF THESE, YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS.
Microsoft reserves the right to modify
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
The standard app license limits copying, transfer and circumvention
Apps are licensed rather than sold, and license rights end if Microsoft disables their use under its agreement. The standard license prohibits bypassing technical limits, unauthorized reverse engineering or copying, making apps available for copying, rental, lending and third-party transfer, subject to rights that applicable law preserves. It also prohibits harmful use of connected services or unauthorized access.
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If Microsoft disables the ability to use the applications on your devices pursuant to your agreement with Microsoft, any associated license rights will terminate.
Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation
Work around any technical limitations in the application.
except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits
Make more copies of the application than specified in this agreement or allowed by applicable law
Publish or otherwise make the application available for others to copy.
Rent, lease, or lend the application.
Transfer the application or this agreement to any third party.
You may not use the service to try to gain unauthorized access to any service, data, account, or network by any means.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Publicly unrestricted content may appear in product promotions
Content published in an area available broadly online without restrictions may be used in demonstrations or materials promoting the service.
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Your Content may appear in demonstrations or materials that promote the Service.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Features and paid digital material may become unavailable
Microsoft may change or remove features or stop a service or third-party access. Unless applicable law requires it, Microsoft need not offer a replacement or re-download of previously bought materials, digital goods or apps. Preview and beta features may not work correctly.
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remove or change features or functionality
Except to the extent required by applicable law, we have no obligation to provide a re-download or replacement
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Software components and access rights cannot be transferred
The license prohibits separating components for use on different devices, transferring software, licenses or service-access rights, interfering with services or gaining unauthorized access, and using unauthorized third-party applications to enable access or modify Microsoft-authorized devices.
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separate components of the software or Services for use on different devices;
transfer the software, any software licenses, or any rights to access or use the Services;