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Microsoft Designer carries highly permissive license terms; Midjourney carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: MICROSOFT DESIGNER NOT RECOMMENDED · MIDJOURNEY NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | MICROSOFT DESIGNER | MIDJOURNEY |
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| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
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“As part of building the Xbox Services community, you grant to Microsoft, its affiliates and sublicensees a free and worldwide right to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, broadcast, share and display Your Content or your name, gamertag, motto, or avatar that you posted for any Xb…”
Broad, royalty-free, worldwide license granted to Microsoft and sublicensees to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, broadcast, and display user-submitted content with no time limit stated.
“You are responsible for all content, including any images, videos, and prompts, that you input or generate when using Editor and/or Video.”
“players, and third-party material available on Bing and MSN, including through Microsoft bots, applications and programs, are for your noncommercial, personal use only. Other uses, including downloading, copying, or redistributing these materials, or using these materials or prod…”
Outputs/materials from Bing, MSN, and Microsoft bots are restricted to noncommercial personal use only. Using them to build your own products is prohibited unless specifically authorized. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
“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.
“As part of our efforts to improve and develop our products, we may use your data to develop and train our AI models. Learn more here .”
Microsoft explicitly reserves the right to use user data to train AI models. This appears twice in the document, suggesting it is a firm policy across products. No opt-out mechanism is described in this excerpt.
“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…”
“The articles, text, photos, maps, videos, video players, and third-party material available on Bing and MSN, including through Microsoft bots, applications and programs, are for your noncommercial, personal use only. Other uses, including downloading, copying, or redistributing t…”
Bing and MSN content (including content delivered via Microsoft bots/AI applications) is explicitly limited to noncommercial personal use. Using such content to build products or for commercial purposes requires separate authorization.
“04. You may not use the Services to generate images for political campaigns, or to try to influence the outcome of an election.”
“If you cancel, your access to the Services ends at the end of your current Service period or, if we bill your account on a periodic basis, at the end of the period in which you canceled. If you initiate a chargeback or reversal with your bank for your payment of Services, we will…”
Upon cancellation (or chargeback), content access and data may be immediately or imminently terminated. No grace period for data export is specified in this passage.
“| 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.
“ iii. Certain restrictions and limitations apply to earning, redeeming, and other uses of Points in the Rewards Program. For more information see the Rewards section at https://support.microsoft.com (" FAQ ").”
“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.”