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Descript carries highly permissive license terms; FLUX (Black Forest Labs) carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DESCRIPT NOT RECOMMENDED · FLUX (BLACK FOREST LABS) NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DESCRIPT | FLUX (BLACK FOREST LABS) |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
“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.
“All Feedback becomes the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and the Company may use and disclose Feedback in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever without further notice or compensation to you and without retention by you of any proprietary or other right or claim. Y…”
Full irrevocable assignment of all IP in any feedback submitted by users — including moral rights — with no compensation and no retained interest. Broad 'any manner and for any purpose' language.
“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.
“ Ownership of the Services. The Services, including their “look and feel” (e.g., text, graphics, images, logos), proprietary content, information and other materials, are protected under copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You agree that the Company and/or…”
“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.
“Your interactions with our Services , which may include prompts and other content that is submitted to the Services, such as your image files, and the output that is created through our Services. We collect this information to generate and output new content as a part of the Serv…”
User prompts, image files, and generated outputs are explicitly collected and used for AI model training and improvement. No opt-out mechanism is described for this use.
“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 not use Output to train, distill or fine tune any other AI models that compete with the Flux AI model(s).”
Outputs cannot be used to train, distill, or fine-tune competing AI models — this restricts a significant class of commercial uses, particularly for AI developers.
“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.
“ Despite our reasonable efforts to protect your information, no security measures are impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” Any information you send to us electronically, while using the Services or otherwise interacting with us, may not be secure while in tra…”
“ 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.”
“ Beta Offerings. From time to time, we may, in our sole discretion, include certain test or beta features or products in the Services (“ Beta Offerings ”) as we may designate from time to time. Your use of any Beta Offering is completely voluntary. The Beta Offerings are provided…”