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Descript carries highly permissive license terms; ElevenLabs carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DESCRIPT NOT RECOMMENDED · ELEVENLABS NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DESCRIPT | ELEVENLABS |
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“We claim no ownership rights in your User Content. You hereby grant to us a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, fully paid, worldwide license to create derivative works from, access, reproduce, distribute, process, publish, display, perform, adapt,…”
Despite claiming no ownership, Descript takes an extremely broad, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable license over all user content including name and likeness, across all current and future media channels, with no compensation.
“ (g) Necessary Rights. You may not provide Input or create Output for which you do not have all the rights necessary to grant us the license described above. You represent and warrant that the Content and User Voice Models, and our use of the Content and User Voice Models, will n…”
“We claim no ownership rights in your User Content. You hereby grant to us a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, fully paid, worldwide license to create derivative works from, access, reproduce, distribute, process, publish, display, perform, adapt,…”
Descript disclaims ownership of user content but takes back a sweeping perpetual, irrevocable license to outputs/edited content. The scope of 'improve the Descript Service' is broad and could encompass model training.
“ (ii) Scope of License. The license granted to you is limited to a non-transferable license to use the Mobile App on any iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or any other Apple device that you own or control as permitted by the Usage Rules set forth in the Apple App Store Terms of Service.”
“You hereby grant to us a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, fully paid, worldwide license to create derivative works from, access, reproduce, distribute, process, publish, display, perform, adapt, modify, analyze, and otherwise use the User Content…”
The license to 'analyze' and 'improve the Descript Service' could encompass AI model training on user content. There is no explicit opt-out mechanism referenced in the visible text.
“To the extent you own or acquire any intellectual property rights in or to any User Voice Models, you hereby grant to ElevenLabs a license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly or otherwise perform and display, an…”
User Voice Models — including voice clones created by users — are subject to the same perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable license for service improvement and new product development. This effectively means any custom voice model can be used to train ElevenLabs' AI systems indefinitely.
“Additional content libraries (the “Additional Libraries”) are not subject to this license, may not be available for commercial use without a license, and may require that you obtain model clearance.”
Additional Libraries outside Storyblocks may require separate commercial licenses and model clearances, creating potential legal exposure for users who assume all platform content is commercially usable.
“You may voluntarily post, submit, or otherwise communicate to us any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, original or creative materials, or other information about ElevenLabs or our Services (collectively, “ Feedback ”). You understand that we may use such Feedback for any p…”
ElevenLabs claims exclusive ownership of any inventions or improvements derived from user feedback, with no compensation to the user. Users effectively assign IP rights in their feedback-derived innovations to ElevenLabs.
“Personalize and improve the Descript Service and for research and development purposes including training our artificial intelligence models;”
User data (including uploaded content) may be used to train AI models. An opt-out exists for Projects specifically, but this broad statement covers other collected information without a clear opt-out.
“You acknowledge that ElevenLabs may process personal data relating to the operation, support, or use of our Services for our own business purposes, such as billing, account management, data analysis, benchmarking, technical support, product development, research and development o…”
ElevenLabs explicitly reserves the right to use personal data for 'research and development of its AI models' and 'improvement of its systems and technologies' — confirming that personal data (including potentially voice data) feeds AI training pipelines.
“ Scope of License. The license granted to you is limited to a non-transferable license to use the Mac App on any iPhone, iPod touch or iPad that you own or control as permitted by the Usage Rules set forth in the Apple App Store Terms of Service.”
“ (viii) Prohibited Transfers and Misuse. ElevenLabs does not permit or recognize the sale, transfer, gift, trade, or exchange of Prepaid Credits. Any such attempt constitutes a material breach and may result, at ElevenLabs’ discretion, in cancellation or forfeiture of Prepaid Cre…”