Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access To More Than 150 Million People's Faces And Names, Forbes reportsSeveral years ago, Viral app FaceApp gave people the authority to alter their facial expressions, looks, and age. But at the same moment, individuals gave FaceApp the ability to use their photos — and names — for whatever purpose they wanted, as long as they wanted ...
The app has been downloaded from Google Play by over 100,000 million individuals. And now, according to App Annie, FaceApp is the top-ranked app on the iOS App Store in 121 nations.
While individuals still have their own "user content" (read: face) according to FaceApp's terms of service, the firm owns an endless and irrevocable royalty-free license to do whatever they want with it ... Before whomever they want:
You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed, without compensation to you. When you post or otherwise share User Content on or through our Services, you understand that your User Content and any associated information (such as your [username], location or profile photo) will be visible to the public.
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