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Synthesia has moderate defaults; Runway carries the most permissive license terms of the set.FOR ENTERPRISE: RUNWAY NOT RECOMMENDED · SYNTHESIA ENTERPRISE TIER ACCEPTABLE
| RISK SURFACE | RUNWAY | SYNTHESIA |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
“ 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…”
“ This Privacy Policy governs and explains how we collect and process your personal information when you (“ you ” or “ User ”) use our website, located at synthesia.io (“ Site ”), services and products accessible through the Site (“ Services ”), and the associated web-based softwa…”
“ 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…”
“ 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…”
“Fine-tuning the AI model to enable it to generate new videos with your Avatar based on the Sample performing a user-provided input;”
User's biometric data (Sample) is explicitly used to fine-tune Synthesia's AI models, meaning the user's likeness directly contributes to model training.
“ 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…”
“ In addition to our third-party vendors acting on our behalf, we will only disclose, redisclose or otherwise disseminate Biometric Data in the following circumstances: As instructed by the Customer as a data controller; As required by applicable State or federal law or municip…”
“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.
“Avatar creation features require processing of the facial geometry and/or voiceprint from each of the Sample and Verification Recording. Certain steps in creating an Avatar involve the processing of data considered “ biometric data ”, “ biometric information ”, “ biometric identi…”
Synthesia collects and processes highly sensitive biometric data (facial geometry, voiceprints) which is subject to stringent regulation in multiple jurisdictions. Users should be aware of the elevated risk associated with providing such data.
“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.