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Cohere Coral carries highly permissive license terms; DeepSeek Chat carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: COHERE CORAL NOT RECOMMENDED · DEEPSEEK CHAT NOT RECOMMENDED
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“YOU GRANT US A NONEXCLUSIVE, WORLDWIDE, ROYALTY-FREE, IRREVOCABLE, SUBLICENSABLE, AND FULLY PAID-UP RIGHT TO ACCESS, COLLECT, USE, PROCESS, STORE, DISCLOSE AND TRANSMIT ANY DATA, INFORMATION, CONTENT, RECORDS OR FILES (“ CONTENT ”) THAT YOU LOAD, SUBMIT, TRANSMIT TO OR ENTER INTO…”
The license grant over user inputs is irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and sublicensable—meaning Cohere retains these rights even if the user terminates their account. The scope is extremely broad.
“ 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…”
“ The Cohere Solution and all materials provided by us hereunder are made available or licensed and not “sold” to you. ”
“we grant you a revocable, non-transferable, and non-exclusive right to legally use this product and related services. All other rights not expressly authorized by these Terms are reserved by DeepSeek, and before exercising such rights, you must obtain written permission from…”
The terms do not explicitly assign ownership of generated outputs to users. Combined with DeepSeek's broad reservation of all non-expressly-granted rights, there is no clear statement that users own or receive an unrestricted license to their outputs.
“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. Content you submit to the Cohere Products, and outputs generated by the Cohere Products. Legitimate…”
Cohere uses Trial and Research user inputs and outputs for model training/improvement under 'legitimate interests' rather than consent, giving users limited ability to object. Paid/Enterprise users may have different treatment but this is not clarified here.
“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 and interactions are explicitly used to train AI models with no opt-out mechanism described in this section.
“you further represent and warrant to and covenant with Cohere that you will not (and will not attempt to) directly or indirectly: disable, overly burden, impair, or otherwise interfere with servers or networks connected to the Cohere Solution (e.g., a denial of service att…”
Commercial exploitation of the Cohere Solution itself is prohibited without prior written permission, which significantly restricts resale, white-labelling, or embedding scenarios.
“ (4) Without DeepSeek's authorization, copying, transferring, leasing,”
“The use of cookies for this purpose may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under California privacy law.”
Platform acknowledges its advertising cookie practices may constitute a 'sale' or 'sharing' of personal data under CCPA/CPRA.
“the right to delete Personal Data you’ve provided to us, or that we’ve obtained about you;”
The policy mentions a deletion right but provides no information on actual retention periods, deletion timelines, or whether model weights trained on user data can be 'deleted'.
“EXCEPT FOR ANY SPECIFIC WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS PROVIDED IN AN APPLICABLE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR AS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW”
Warranty and other protections may differ for users with a separate Subscription Agreement (typically paid/enterprise tiers), but the specific differences are not disclosed in this document.
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”