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Westlaw AI (Thomson Reuters) has moderate defaults; Cohere API carries the most permissive license terms of the set.FOR ENTERPRISE: COHERE API NOT RECOMMENDED · WESTLAW AI (THOMSON REUTERS) ENTERPRISE TIER ACCEPTABLE
| RISK SURFACE | COHERE API | WESTLAW AI (THOMSON REUTERS) |
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| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
“You agree that any suggestion or idea provided by you (such suggestions or ideas, “ Feedback ”) will not be treated as confidential, and nothing in these Terms of Use will restrict our right to use, profit from, disclose, publish or otherwise exploit any Feedback, without compens…”
Feedback submitted by users — which could be interpreted broadly to include prompts or suggestions provided to the platform — is subject to a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free worldwide license with no compensation to the user.
“ Personal information in content and communications uploaded, sent, shared, or inputted through our Services or via our networks and infrastructure, including feedback you provide to us and the content of communications between you and us or sent via our network and Services — in…”
“ publish, market, advertise or in any way distribute the Content;”
“ All content provided on this site is owned by or licensed to Thomson Reuters and/or its affiliates (the "Thomson Reuters Content") and protected by United States and international copyright laws. Thomson Reuters and its licensors retain all proprietary rights to the Thomson Reut…”
“For Trial Users and Researchers (i.e. users interacting with Cohere Products on research-specific platforms like Hugging Face, Cohere Labs grantee users, or users demoing Cohere Products under a free trial account), we collect content you submit to the Cohere Products, and output…”
Trial Users and Researchers have their inputs and outputs used for model training and R&D by default, with no explicit opt-out described in this section.
“ attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Cohere Solution, or bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Cohere Solution, attempt to circumvent the intended features, functionality or limitations of the Cohere Solution, or otherwise use, copy, distribut…”
“Thomson Reuters grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site, subject to the Terms. This site and any portion hereof may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, downloaded, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose withou…”
Use is restricted to personal, non-commercial purposes only. Any commercial exploitation of site content or outputs requires explicit prior written consent from Thomson Reuters, which may be withheld.
“Safeguards, Retention and Privacy Governance”
The document references a 'Safeguards, Retention and Privacy Governance' section but does not provide its content in the supplied text. Retention periods and deletion rights cannot be assessed from this excerpt.
“Demographic information Age; date of birth; marriage status; gender; physical characteristics; military status; political, religious, or philosophical beliefs; sexual orientation; racial or ethnic origin; and union membershi”
TR collects special categories of personal data under GDPR Article 9 (political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, racial/ethnic origin, union membership), which require explicit legal bases and heightened protections.
“Section 2.3 (Research and Model Improvement): Analyzing usage patterns and using Trial or Research User Inputs/Outputs to improve the performance and safety of our AI models.”
Model training use of inputs/outputs is explicitly scoped to 'Trial or Research Users', implying paid or enterprise users may not have their data used for training. However, this distinction is not clearly defined elsewhere in the extracted text, creating ambiguity about which tier a given user falls into.