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Descript carries highly permissive license terms; Instantly carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DESCRIPT NOT RECOMMENDED · INSTANTLY NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DESCRIPT | INSTANTLY |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
“6.1 Instantly Platform and Technology . Subscriber acknowledges that Instantly retains all right, title and interest in and to the Instantly Platform, including all algorithms, AI, language and visual models and improvements thereto, Integration Tools and all software and all In…”
“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.
“ 4.1 Access Rights. Commencing as of the date that Subscriber purchases or orders the applicable Instantly Service, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and Instantly’s approval of your use of the Instantly Service, Instantly hereby grants to Subscriber a ter…”
“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.
“ We also use the Information described above for our own internal purposes – such as to improve, test, update and verify our own database; develop new products; operate, analyze, improve and secure our Services and our databases and servers. Deidentified Personal Informat…”
“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.
“ Data marketing services, for example: Operating our data cooperative and providing marketing information to our Clients (which may include companies, non-profit organizations, other data compilers, resellers and platforms, advertising networks, and political organizations),…”
“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.
“ Whether We “Sold” or “shared” This Category of Personal Information in the Last 12 Months ”
“ 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.”
“This no-refund policy applies to all subscription plans, Credits, and any add-on or ancillary services, including but not limited to the VIP Services, “Done-For-You” service, Warmup Service, and Supersearch. 5.4 Third-Party Service Provider. Instantly uses Stripe, Inc. and it…”