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DeepSeek Chat carries highly permissive license terms; Midjourney carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DEEPSEEK CHAT NOT RECOMMENDED · MIDJOURNEY NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DEEPSEEK CHAT | MIDJOURNEY |
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“ 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…”
“You are responsible for all content, including any images, videos, and prompts, that you input or generate when using Editor and/or Video.”
“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.
“You hereby irrevocably assign, transfer, and convey to Midjourney and Midjourney accepts, all rights, title, and interest (including all intellectual property and proprietary rights) in and to the Translations, and waive any moral rights you may have therein. To the extent any ri…”
Users who submit translations irrevocably assign all IP rights to Midjourney, with a broad fallback exclusive license. No compensation or attribution is provided.
“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.
“By using the Services, You grant to Midjourney, its affiliates, successors, and assigns a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, subli…”
“ (4) Without DeepSeek's authorization, copying, transferring, leasing,”
“04. You may not use the Services to generate images for political campaigns, or to try to influence the outcome of an election.”
“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'.
“| 2 | **Personal information categories under the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).** A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identif…”
Midjourney confirms collecting and disclosing financial data, medical information, and health insurance information. The scope is extremely broad for an AI image platform.
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”
“If You purchase an unlimited plan, we will try to reasonably offer You unlimited access to the Services. However, we reserve the right to rate limit You to prevent quality decay or interruptions to other customers.”