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Descript carries highly permissive license terms; Playground AI carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DESCRIPT NOT RECOMMENDED · PLAYGROUND AI NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DESCRIPT | PLAYGROUND AI |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
“By using the Services, you grant to Playground AI, its successors, and assigns a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, prepare Derivative Works…”
Users grant a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, royalty-free license over their text prompts and uploaded images. The license is permanent (survives termination) and allows Playground AI to sublicense, adapt, and distribute inputs with no compensation beyond access to the service.
“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.
“The license to Playground AI survives termination of this Agreement by any party, for any reason.”
Playground AI's license over user inputs and outputs is explicitly stated to survive termination for any reason, meaning the user cannot revoke Playground AI's rights over their content by closing their account.
“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.
“By using the Services, you grant to Playground AI, its successors, and assigns a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, prepare Derivative Works…”
The license to 'improve the Services' combined with a perpetual, irrevocable grant strongly implies that inputs and outputs may be used for model training or fine-tuning. No opt-out mechanism is described.
“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.
“ other than as permitted through an allowable API; (v) reverse assemble, reverse compile, decompile, translate or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying components of models, algorithms, and systems of the Services that are not open (except to the extent such…”
“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.
“ Playground AI utilizes artificial intelligence systems to produce the Assets. Such Assets may be unintentionally similar to copyright protected material or trademarks held by others. Users are prohibited from creating Assets that infringe third-party intellectual property rights…”
“ 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.”
“Playground AI offers a free and paid Service. You can learn more about our paid subscription offering here or within our mobile application.”
The document references free and paid tiers but does not detail the substantive differences in rights, data handling, or feature access between them within the terms document itself.