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Midjourney carries highly permissive license terms; Playground AI carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: MIDJOURNEY NOT RECOMMENDED · PLAYGROUND AI NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | MIDJOURNEY | PLAYGROUND AI |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
“You are responsible for all content, including any images, videos, and prompts, that you input or generate when using Editor and/or Video.”
“By using the Services, you grant to Playground AI, its successors, and assigns a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, prepare Derivative Works…”
Users grant a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, royalty-free license over their text prompts and uploaded images. The license is permanent (survives termination) and allows Playground AI to sublicense, adapt, and distribute inputs with no compensation beyond access to the service.
“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.
“The license to Playground AI survives termination of this Agreement by any party, for any reason.”
Playground AI's license over user inputs and outputs is explicitly stated to survive termination for any reason, meaning the user cannot revoke Playground AI's rights over their content by closing their account.
“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…”
“By using the Services, you grant to Playground AI, its successors, and assigns a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, prepare Derivative Works…”
The license to 'improve the Services' combined with a perpetual, irrevocable grant strongly implies that inputs and outputs may be used for model training or fine-tuning. No opt-out mechanism is described.
“04. You may not use the Services to generate images for political campaigns, or to try to influence the outcome of an election.”
“ other than as permitted through an allowable API; (v) reverse assemble, reverse compile, decompile, translate or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying components of models, algorithms, and systems of the Services that are not open (except to the extent such…”
“| 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.
“ Playground AI utilizes artificial intelligence systems to produce the Assets. Such Assets may be unintentionally similar to copyright protected material or trademarks held by others. Users are prohibited from creating Assets that infringe third-party intellectual property rights…”
“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.”
“Playground AI offers a free and paid Service. You can learn more about our paid subscription offering here or within our mobile application.”
The document references free and paid tiers but does not detail the substantive differences in rights, data handling, or feature access between them within the terms document itself.