In Ts & Cs dated May 2024, both StarNow and Backstage (who StarNow own) [0] claim:
"[...] without any credit or compensation to you, a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, unrestricted, irrevocable, and fully transferable, assignable and sub-licensable license to host, use, modify, display, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, translate, create derivative works of, distribute, and export any User Provided Content, in whole or in part, or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, software or technology of any kind now known or hereafter developed or discovered for any purposes whatsoever."
Not the usual "in order to provide the service" boilerplate at all.
I imagine they have a valuable data set for AI training?
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[ 74.6 ms ] story [ 188 ms ] thread"[...] without any credit or compensation to you, a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, unrestricted, irrevocable, and fully transferable, assignable and sub-licensable license to host, use, modify, display, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, translate, create derivative works of, distribute, and export any User Provided Content, in whole or in part, or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, software or technology of any kind now known or hereafter developed or discovered for any purposes whatsoever."
Not the usual "in order to provide the service" boilerplate at all.
I imagine they have a valuable data set for AI training?
[0] https://www.backstage.com/terms-of-service/
Edit: mandy.com as well (Starnow own them too). https://www.mandy.com/terms-of-service/
But then they'd only have to have done it once.