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HeyGen carries highly permissive license terms; Midjourney carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: HEYGEN NOT RECOMMENDED · MIDJOURNEY NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | HEYGEN | MIDJOURNEY |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
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“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.
“You are responsible for all content, including any images, videos, and prompts, that you input or generate when using Editor and/or Video.”
“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 irrevocably assign, transfer, and convey to Midjourney and Midjourney accepts, all rights, title, and interest (including all intellectual property and proprietary rights) in and to the Translations, and waive any moral rights you may have therein. To the extent any ri…”
Users who submit translations irrevocably assign all IP rights to Midjourney, with a broad fallback exclusive license. No compensation or attribution is provided.
“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.
“By using the Services, You grant to Midjourney, its affiliates, successors, and assigns a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, subli…”
“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.
“04. You may not use the Services to generate images for political campaigns, or to try to influence the outcome of an election.”
“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.
“| 2 | **Personal information categories under the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).** A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identif…”
Midjourney confirms collecting and disclosing financial data, medical information, and health insurance information. The scope is extremely broad for an AI image platform.
“ (d) Refunds and Exchanges. Payments are non-refundable, except where required by law.”
“If You purchase an unlimited plan, we will try to reasonably offer You unlimited access to the Services. However, we reserve the right to rate limit You to prevent quality decay or interruptions to other customers.”