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HeyGen carries highly permissive license terms; Runway carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: HEYGEN NOT RECOMMENDED · RUNWAY NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | HEYGEN | RUNWAY |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
“ 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…”
“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.
“ 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 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.
“ 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…”
“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.
“ 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…”
“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.
“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.
“ (d) Refunds and Exchanges. Payments are non-refundable, except where required by law.”
“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.