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AIVA has moderate defaults; HeyGen carries the most permissive license terms of the set.FOR ENTERPRISE: AIVA ENTERPRISE TIER ACCEPTABLE · HEYGEN NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | AIVA | HEYGEN |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
“HeyGen does not claim to own any of Your Content and by using the Services and uploading or generating Your Content, you grant us a license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify Your Content to operate, improve, promote…”
Despite not claiming ownership, HeyGen takes a broad, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, and irrevocable license over all user inputs. The license survives termination, meaning revoking access does not end HeyGen's rights to previously submitted content.
“ Depending on the plan that Licensee is currently subscribed to, different licenses may be applied to the Audio and/or MIDI Compositions generated by the User: Non-Commercial License: Licensor hereby assigns, grants and conveys to Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferrable and…”
“All Feedback becomes the sole and exclusive property of HeyGen, and HeyGen may use and disclose Feedback in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever without further notice or compensation to you and without retention by you of any proprietary or other right or claim. You hereby…”
Any feedback submitted—including suggestions, comments, or improvements—is irrevocably assigned to HeyGen with no compensation. Includes patent rights, trade secrets, and moral rights waiver.
“ Licensee is not permitted to use the MIDI or Audio compositions to set up a competing / similar service to what is provided by AIVA on the Site. Licensee is not permitted to use the music as part of a large scale upload or licensing to any third party. For example, large scale…”
“you grant us a license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify Your Content to operate, improve, promote and provide the Services and to develop new services and products, including to train or otherwise improve or modify…”
User content (inputs and outputs) from paid plan users is explicitly licensed for AI model training. This is opt-in by default with no clear opt-out mechanism mentioned.
“ Licensee will not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, techniques, processes, algorithms, know-how or other information from the binary code, the servers and any other infrastructure of the Licensor, or permit or induce the for…”
“User Output generated under a Free Plan may not be sold, sublicensed, redistributed, monetized, or used in connection with commercial activities, advertising, client work, revenue-generating product or any other services.”
Complete prohibition on commercial use of outputs for free plan users, including advertising, client work, and revenue-generating activities.
“ This Agreement is effective until terminated. Licensee rights under this Agreement will automatically terminate without notice from AIVA if Licensee fails to comply with any terms of this Agreement. Upon the termination of this License, Licensee shall cease all use of the Servic…”
“Some of the features of the Services require us to process parts of faces or bodies within a video or photo, and this may include face imagery. The information we use for this process is used to create and personalize avatars. See our Biometric Information Privacy Notice for furt…”
Biometric data (face imagery, body data) is collected and processed. This triggers heightened legal obligations under BIPA (Illinois), CCPA sensitive data rules, and GDPR Article 9.
“ Customers are elligible for refunds if, and only if, they have not used any of the premium features of the plan they subscribed to. If Licensee has already started using premium features, Licensee understands that they are no longer elligible for a refund, and the sole act of us…”
“ (d) Refunds and Exchanges. Payments are non-refundable, except where required by law.”