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Inviting terms as usual: When you upload, submit, store, send or receive User Content to or through the NVIDIA Research AI Playground, you give NVIDIA (and par

by koilke 5y ago

Inviting terms as usual: When you upload, submit, store, send or receive User Content to or through the NVIDIA Research AI Playground, you give NVIDIA (and parties NVIDIA works with, including its affiliates, suppliers and customers) a worldwide license to use (including without limitation for neural network training), host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such User Content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving the NVIDIA Research AI Playground and content available to all users, and to develop new NVIDIA offerings. This license continues even if you stop using the NVIDIA Research AI Playground. The NVIDIA Research AI Playground may offer you ways to access, download, and remove content that has been provided, but make sure to keep your own back-up copies of your User Content. Also, the scope of services is limited and not all content in all formats can be loaded in the NVIDIA Research AI Playground.

dillondoyle 5y ago
It doesn't sound like they are trying to sell or somehow leverage to make profit? I guess 'develop new NVIDIA offerings' is kind of vaguely suspicious but the rest doesn't seem onerous to me unless I'm missing something?
- kadoban 5y ago
  Those license terms seem to me like they'd allow using someone's picture in unlimited advertising, for free. They also sound like they'll definitely be using them to train models. I wouldn't be surprised if some of that means they can sell them to advertisers for whatever nonsense.
  - midnitewarrior 5y ago
    My take is that they are limiting their liability in case anyone is overly letigius, or if they mishandle the data. Yes, they could do the things you describe, but my guess is they don't want to get sued by people they are providing a free service to.
    - kadoban 5y ago
      That doesn't really change what the license they wrote allows though.
sb057 5y ago
Sounds like a general CYA license so that developers can try it out before an actual product is rolled out with a proper commercial license.
dahart 5y ago
The reason it’s usual is because all sites with upload features need the right to host what you upload. Facebook, for example, has the exact same thing. “Permission to use content you create and share. [...] when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content” https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

by koilke 5y ago

dillondoyle 5y ago

It doesn't sound like they are trying to sell or somehow leverage to make profit? I guess 'develop new NVIDIA offerings' is kind of vaguely suspicious but the rest doesn't seem onerous to me unless I'm missing something?

kadoban 5y ago
Those license terms seem to me like they'd allow using someone's picture in unlimited advertising, for free. They also sound like they'll definitely be using them to train models. I wouldn't be surprised if some of that means they can sell them to advertisers for whatever nonsense.
- midnitewarrior 5y ago
  My take is that they are limiting their liability in case anyone is overly letigius, or if they mishandle the data. Yes, they could do the things you describe, but my guess is they don't want to get sued by people they are providing a free service to.
  - kadoban 5y ago
    That doesn't really change what the license they wrote allows though.

sb057 5y ago

Sounds like a general CYA license so that developers can try it out before an actual product is rolled out with a proper commercial license.

dahart 5y ago

The reason it’s usual is because all sites with upload features need the right to host what you upload. Facebook, for example, has the exact same thing. “Permission to use content you create and share. [...] when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content” https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms