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Can you provide a source for this assertion? The terms of service on their website has the standard "you automatically grant us a license so we can distribute it" clause, but then has this additional term directly following:

> You also expressly grant and assign to CL all rights and causes of action to prohibit and enforce against any unauthorized copying, performance, display, distribution, use or exploitation of, or creation of derivative works from, any content that you post (including but not limited to any unauthorized downloading, extraction, harvesting, collection or aggregation of content that you post).




I don't think such a grant is legally sound, but I'd like to hear evidence to support it. Here's a similar example where the court did not grant the third party standing to sue: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/righthaven-case-ends-vict...




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