Kayak keeping a license on deleted content, do they keep such content too?

I’m hesitating to approve a point created for Kayak

You may remove your Trips Information from Trips at any time, but the license that you have granted will remain in effect.

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The issue is, they don’t say in the agreements they are keeping that content, only a license. Is it only a way to say licenses are perpetual, or should a user understand deleted content is not really deleted?

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The former: the thing is there’s no way to legally revoke a copyright licence except for a very narrow statutory revocation opportunity (must be between X and Y years after initial publication, and must compensate all current users) and explicitly negotiated revocation provision. Hence I’d rate it neutral: they can’t initiate a revocation on behalf of you just because you erased your content from their platform.

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