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Descript carries highly permissive license terms; Runway carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DESCRIPT NOT RECOMMENDED · RUNWAY NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DESCRIPT | RUNWAY |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
“ User content , such as prompts, photos, images, music, videos, audio, screen sharing, comments, questions, messages, works of authorship, and other content or information that you, or third parties acting on your behalf, input, generate, transmit, upload, or submit to us as part…”
“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.
“ 1.1 Software Application License . Subject to your compliance with the Agreement and any usage limitations described in the order process, Company grants you a limited non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to download, install and use a copy of th…”
“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.
“ 4.4 User Inputs and Outputs. The Services utilize artificial intelligence to process user inputs to the Services (the “ Inputs ”), such as text prompts describing images, videos, games, or other content, and generate and return outputs based on such Inputs (the “ Outputs ”). As…”
“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.
“ 4.6 Feedback. You agree that submission of any ideas, suggestions, documents, and/or proposals to Company through its suggestion, feedback, wiki, forum, or similar pages (“ Feedback ”) is at your own risk and that Company has no obligations (including without limitation obligati…”
“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.
“Biometric data Vendors Affiliates Entities for legal and safety purposes As consistent with your consent Provide the Service Legal and safety Business transfers As authorized by you”
Biometric data is collected and disclosed to vendors, affiliates, and entities for legal purposes, and may be transferred in business transfers. Biometric data carries significant sensitivity and legal risk under state biometric privacy laws.
“ 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.”
“Account administrators. When you join a Runway Enterprise or team account, the administrator of that team may access and control your account.”
Enterprise and team tier users face additional privacy risk: account administrators can access and control their accounts, which does not appear to apply to individual Free/Pro users.