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DeepSeek Chat carries highly permissive license terms; Runway carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DEEPSEEK CHAT NOT RECOMMENDED · RUNWAY NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DEEPSEEK CHAT | RUNWAY |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
“ 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…”
“ User content , such as prompts, photos, images, music, videos, audio, screen sharing, comments, questions, messages, works of authorship, and other content or information that you, or third parties acting on your behalf, input, generate, transmit, upload, or submit to us as part…”
“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.
“ 1.1 Software Application License . Subject to your compliance with the Agreement and any usage limitations described in the order process, Company grants you a limited non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to download, install and use a copy of th…”
“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.
“ 4.4 User Inputs and Outputs. The Services utilize artificial intelligence to process user inputs to the Services (the “ Inputs ”), such as text prompts describing images, videos, games, or other content, and generate and return outputs based on such Inputs (the “ Outputs ”). As…”
“ (4) Without DeepSeek's authorization, copying, transferring, leasing,”
“ 4.6 Feedback. You agree that submission of any ideas, suggestions, documents, and/or proposals to Company through its suggestion, feedback, wiki, forum, or similar pages (“ Feedback ”) is at your own risk and that Company has no obligations (including without limitation obligati…”
“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'.
“Biometric data Vendors Affiliates Entities for legal and safety purposes As consistent with your consent Provide the Service Legal and safety Business transfers As authorized by you”
Biometric data is collected and disclosed to vendors, affiliates, and entities for legal purposes, and may be transferred in business transfers. Biometric data carries significant sensitivity and legal risk under state biometric privacy laws.
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”
“Account administrators. When you join a Runway Enterprise or team account, the administrator of that team may access and control your account.”
Enterprise and team tier users face additional privacy risk: account administrators can access and control their accounts, which does not appear to apply to individual Free/Pro users.