Participants retain ownership of their submitted work. However, by entering the competition, teams grant NIO and its affiliates a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, distribute, and create derivative works from the submitted code and materials for internal commercial, research, development, and operational purposes. This includes the right to integrate, refine, and deploy elements of submitted solutions within NIO’s and its affiliates' internal systems and workflows without further consent or compensation.