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Descript has no scored posture yet (unrated); HeyGen has no scored posture yet (unrated).FOR ENTERPRISE: DESCRIPT NOT YET SCORED · HEYGEN NOT YET SCORED
| RISK SURFACE | DESCRIPT | HEYGEN |
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| 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.
“HeyGen does not claim to own any of Your Content and by using the Services and uploading or generating Your Content, you grant us a license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify Your Content to operate, improve, promote…”
Despite not claiming ownership, HeyGen takes a broad, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, and irrevocable license over all user inputs. The license survives termination, meaning revoking access does not end HeyGen's rights to previously submitted content.
“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.
“All Feedback becomes the sole and exclusive property of HeyGen, and HeyGen 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. You hereby…”
Any feedback submitted—including suggestions, comments, or improvements—is irrevocably assigned to HeyGen with no compensation. Includes patent rights, trade secrets, and moral rights waiver.
“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.
“you grant us a license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify Your Content to operate, improve, promote and provide the Services and to develop new services and products, including to train or otherwise improve or modify…”
User content (inputs and outputs) from paid plan users is explicitly licensed for AI model training. This is opt-in by default with no clear opt-out mechanism mentioned.
“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.
“User Output generated under a Free Plan may not be sold, sublicensed, redistributed, monetized, or used in connection with commercial activities, advertising, client work, revenue-generating product or any other services.”
Complete prohibition on commercial use of outputs for free plan users, including advertising, client work, and revenue-generating activities.
“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.
“Some of the features of the Services require us to process parts of faces or bodies within a video or photo, and this may include face imagery. The information we use for this process is used to create and personalize avatars. See our Biometric Information Privacy Notice for furt…”
Biometric data (face imagery, body data) is collected and processed. This triggers heightened legal obligations under BIPA (Illinois), CCPA sensitive data rules, and GDPR Article 9.
“ 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.”
“ (d) Refunds and Exchanges. Payments are non-refundable, except where required by law.”