If you upload a photo or image containing other people to Luma, you are granting those people a permanent, irrevocable license to use that photo for their own personal purposes across any online platform.
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By uploading photos containing other people, you are not just granting rights to Luma but also automatically granting those pictured individuals a perpetual license to use the image, which could have unintended consequences for photographers and content creators.
Interpretive note: The practical enforceability of the license grant to depicted persons who are not parties to this agreement is legally uncertain and may depend on jurisdiction-specific contract and privacy law.
Removal eliminates automatic rights granted to individuals appearing in uploaded photographs, potentially reducing privacy protections and third-party claim exposure for Luma.
View full change record →Uploading photos of other people to Luma automatically grants those people an irrevocable, perpetual license to publicly display and distribute that photo for personal use, which is an unusual rights grant that affects not just your relationship with Luma but also your rights over images of others.
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"If you Upload a photograph or image to the Services that includes one or more persons, you hereby grant such persons and their administrators, guardians, heirs, and trustees, if any, an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty free, fully paid-up, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, and publicly display that photograph for personal use and through any online platform or service, but not to promote any third-party product— Excerpt from Luma AI's Luma AI Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages privacy and personality rights frameworks including right of publicity laws in California and New York, EU GDPR protections for biometric and photographic personal data, and the Illinois BIPA where applicable. The automatic grant of a perpetual license to depicted persons raises questions under GDPR Article 6 regarding whether this constitutes a lawful basis for processing the photographed persons' data, given that the depicted individual has not consented to being uploaded to the platform in the first instance. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. This provision is operationally unusual in that it purports to create a direct license relationship between the uploading user and the depicted persons, bypassing Luma entirely. The practical enforceability of this provision may be limited because depicted persons are not parties to the agreement and the provision does not describe a mechanism for those persons to assert or enforce this license. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: Illinois BIPA is particularly relevant if uploaded photographs are used to derive biometric identifiers. EU/EEA users uploading photos of identifiable individuals must consider GDPR's requirements for a lawful basis for that processing. California's right of publicity statute may create additional considerations for commercial use of photos of individuals. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Professional photographers, media organizations, and content creators using Luma to process or edit photographs of clients, subjects, or public figures should specifically evaluate this provision's implications for their professional licensing arrangements and model release practices. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Organizations using Luma for image processing workflows should review whether their existing model release or consent documentation is sufficient in light of this automatic license grant to depicted persons. Privacy teams should assess whether uploading images of employees, clients, or third parties to Luma is consistent with applicable privacy notices and consent frameworks.
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By uploading photos containing other people, you are not just granting rights to Luma but also automatically granting those pictured individuals a perpetual license to use the image, which could have unintended consequences for photographers and content creators.
Uploading photos of other people to Luma automatically grants those people an irrevocable, perpetual license to publicly display and distribute that photo for personal use, which is an unusual rights grant that affects not just your relationship with Luma but also your rights over images of others.
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