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Microsoft Designer carries highly permissive license terms; Shopify Magic carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: MICROSOFT DESIGNER NOT RECOMMENDED · SHOPIFY MAGIC NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | MICROSOFT DESIGNER | SHOPIFY MAGIC |
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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.
“We do not take ownership of the Materials that you provide to Shopify; however, we do require a license to your Materials. You hereby grant Shopify a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to host, use, distribute, expose, modify, r…”
Users retain nominal ownership but grant Shopify an extremely broad license to their materials including the right to create derivative works, sublicense, and promote materials through Shopify partner channels — all royalty-free and worldwide.
“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 irrevocably waive any and all moral rights you may have in the Materials in favour of Shopify and agree that this waiver may be invoked by anyone who obtains rights in the materials through Shopify, including anyone to whom Shopify may transfer or grant (including by way of l…”
Users irrevocably waive moral rights in their materials in favor of Shopify and any downstream licensee. This waiver is permanent and cannot be undone even after termination.
“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.
“ One of the ways in which we are able to help merchants using Shopify is by using techniques like "machine learning" (some laws, including certain EEA and UK laws, may refer to this as "automated decision-making") to help us improve our services. When we use machine learning, we…”
“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.
“exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Services, or access to the Services without the express written permission by Shopify.”
“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.
“when Shopify provides the Enhanced Services to help grow and improve your business and the businesses of other Shopify merchants by placing or delivering advertising for stores and products based on customer Personal Data from interactions with Your Store, with other Merchants an…”
Shopify explicitly acknowledges that using customer Personal Data for cross-merchant advertising may constitute a 'sale' or 'share' under US state privacy laws, placing compliance burden on the merchant.
“ 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 ").”
“ Technical support in respect of the Services is only provided to Shopify Users. Questions about the Terms of Service should be sent to Shopify Support.”