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Clipchamp AI (Microsoft) carries highly permissive license terms; DeepSeek API carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: CLIPCHAMP AI (MICROSOFT) NOT RECOMMENDED · DEEPSEEK API NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | CLIPCHAMP AI (MICROSOFT) | DEEPSEEK API |
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“To the extent necessary to provide the Services to you and others, to protect you and the Services, and to improve Microsoft products and services, you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, for example, to make copies o…”
User grants Microsoft a broad worldwide, royalty-free license over all submitted content including AI prompts. The license covers improvement of Microsoft products and services, which may include model training.
“ 4.1 You are responsible for all Inputs you submit to our Services and corresponding Outputs. By submitting Inputs to our Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, and permissions that are necessary for us to process the Inputs under our Terms. Y…”
“Microsoft or other rights holders reserve all rights to the material not expressly granted by Microsoft under the license terms, whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise.”
Microsoft and rights holders retain all rights not expressly granted; users receive only a narrow noncommercial personal use license to platform outputs.
“Specifically, within DeepSeek's product services, these models, based on user input information (referred to as "Inputs"), compute and infer to output corresponding content as a response (referred to as "Outputs" ), including text, tables, and code. U”
The document is truncated and may contain an output-ownership clause later. Absence of an explicit grant to users of output ownership is a risk.
“To the extent necessary to provide the Services to you and others, to protect you and the Services, and to improve Microsoft products and services, you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, for example, to make copies o…”
The license explicitly includes 'improve Microsoft products and services', which is broad enough to encompass model training on user-submitted content including AI prompts and outputs. No opt-out mechanism is stated in this clause.
“To improve and develop the Services and to train and improve our technology, such as our machine learning models and algorithms. Including by monitoring interactions and usage across your devices, analyzing how people are using it, and training and improving our technology.”
User inputs, outputs, and behavioral data are explicitly used to train and improve AI models with no opt-out mechanism described in this section.
“The articles, text, photos, maps, videos, video players, and third-party material available on Bing and MSN, including through Microsoft bots, applications and programs, are for your noncommercial, personal use only. Other uses, including downloading, copying, or redistributing t…”
Bing and MSN content is explicitly limited to noncommercial personal use. Using outputs to build products or redistribute content is prohibited unless specifically authorized, creating significant risk for any commercial AI or data pipeline use.
“ lending, selling, or sub-licensing the entire or part of the Services.”
“If you have more content stored in your OneDrive than is provided to you under the terms of your free or paid subscription service for Microsoft storage and you do not respond to notice from Microsoft to fix your account by removing excess content or moving to a new subscription…”
Microsoft may delete user content on OneDrive without further warning if storage limits are exceeded and the user does not act.
“the right to delete Personal Data you’ve provided to us, or that we’ve obtained about you;”
The policy references a deletion right but provides no detail on actual retention periods, deletion timelines, or what happens to data already used in model training upon deletion request.
“Applications acquired through certain Stores owned or operated by Microsoft or its affiliates (including, but not limited to the Office Store, Microsoft Store on Windows and Microsoft Store on Xbox) are subject to section 14.b.i below.”
Different rules apply to applications acquired through Microsoft's various Stores, but the specific differences are deferred to section 14.b.i which is not present in this excerpt, creating uncertainty about what additional terms may apply to those users.
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”