The policy places full legal compliance responsibility on users for any content generated through the platform, including compliance with intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and consumer protection laws in their applicable jurisdiction.
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This provision allocates downstream legal liability to users rather than ElevenLabs for content generated using its tools, which has significant implications for enterprise API customers who may face exposure under laws governing synthetic media disclosure, biometric privacy, copyright, and defamation in jurisdictions where they operate or distribute content.
This new provision shifts primary compliance burden to users and creates explicit liability disclaimers for ElevenLabs across multiple legal domains.
View full change record →Under this clause, users bear sole legal responsibility for the compliance of generated voice content with all applicable laws, including jurisdiction-specific consent, disclosure, copyright, and defamation requirements; enterprise users integrating the API into commercial products should assess whether this liability allocation is consistent with their own legal risk frameworks.
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"You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of ElevenLabs and any content you generate complies with all applicable laws and regulations, including those relating to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and consumer protection.Excerpt from ElevenLabs's Usage Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The clause implicates copyright law where voice content reproduces protected elements, GDPR and state biometric privacy statutes where generated content involves identifiable individuals' voice characteristics, FTC Act provisions on deceptive endorsements and …
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This provision allocates downstream legal liability to users rather than ElevenLabs for content generated using its tools, which has significant implications for enterprise API customers who may face exposure under laws governing synthetic media disclosure, biometric privacy, copyright, and defamation in jurisdictions where they operate or distribute content.
Under this clause, users bear sole legal responsibility for the compliance of generated voice content with all applicable laws, including jurisdiction-specific consent, disclosure, copyright, and defamation requirements; enterprise users integrating the API into commercial products should assess whether this liability allocation is consistent with their own legal risk frameworks.
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