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HeyGen carries highly permissive license terms; Leonardo.AI carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: HEYGEN NOT RECOMMENDED · LEONARDO.AI NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | HEYGEN | LEONARDO.AI |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
“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.
“**9.1** We own all intellectual property rights in our Services (including our Platform). This includes how our Platform looks and functions, as well as our copyrighted works, trademarks, inventions, designs and other intellectual property, including Our Materials. You agree not…”
“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.
“**7.2** Subject to your Consumer Law Rights, the Generated Content is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement. We disclaim…”
“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.
“For Service improvement (including analytics and machine learning):** We may analyse your Content and related data in your account to improve the Service, and to train our algorithms, models, and AI products and services using machine learning to develop, improve and provide our…”
By default, user content is used for model training. Opt-out requires a paid subscription and use of the private generation mode — free-tier users have no opt-out.
“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.
“- our [privacy policy](https://leonardo.ai/privacy-policy) and our [data processing addendum](https://leonardo.ai/data-processing-addendum) (on our website) which each set out how we handle the Personal Data of our users and commercial customers (as applicable);”
“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.
“**10.5** You must only disclose Personal Data to us if you have the right to do so (such as having the individual’s express consent).”
“ (d) Refunds and Exchanges. Payments are non-refundable, except where required by law.”
“With a paid subscription, you have control over who can see your generated Content. When you use private mode, your generated Content cannot be accessed or used by other users. If private mode is turned off, your Content is considered public and can be accessed and used by other…”
Free-tier users have no privacy controls: all generated content is public by default, indexed by search engines, and accessible to other users. This is a significant tier-based privacy disparity.