10 Total
5 High severity
5 Medium severity
0 Low severity
Summary

This document establishes the Terms of Service governing access to and use of Midjourney's AI image and video generation platform. The agreement authorizes Midjourney a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, and distribute all prompts and generated images created by users. Business users with annual revenue exceeding $1,000,000 USD are required to maintain a Pro or Mega subscription tier to retain ownership rights over generated assets.

Technical / Legal Breakdown

This document is Midjourney's Terms of Service (effective February 12, 2026) governing access to and use of the Midjourney AI image and video generation platform, including via midjourney.com and Discord, and establishing the legal framework for user-generated content, intellectual property, payments, and dispute resolution. The agreement states that users grant Midjourney a perpetual, worldwide, sublicensable, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license over all content inputs and generated assets, and the terms authorize Midjourney to suspend or ban user access at any time for any reason, including for Community Guidelines violations without refund for the current subscription period. Notable provisions include a one-year shortened statute of limitations on all causes of action, a mandatory binding arbitration clause administered by the AAA's International Centre for Dispute Resolution with jury trial waiver, and a revenue-based ownership threshold requiring companies with over $1,000,000 USD annual revenue to subscribe to Pro or Mega plans to retain asset ownership. The agreement engages the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for takedown procedures, the California Consumer Privacy Act given California governing law, and the FTC Act with respect to consumer protection and potentially unfair or deceptive practices; applicability of GDPR and other regional privacy frameworks depends on user jurisdiction and is addressed separately in Midjourney's linked privacy policy. The one-year limitations period and perpetual content license provisions present material compliance considerations for enterprise customers, and the revenue-based IP ownership tier creates contractual risk for businesses that fail to maintain qualifying subscription levels.

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5 important changes detected

6 versions captured · Last updated: May 2026

What changed Midjourney removed 14 sentences from their Terms of Service on May 29, 2026, eliminating the table of contents that listed article headings including Service Availability and Quality, Age Requirements, Your Information, Content Rights, DMCA and Takedowns Policy, Dispute Resolution and Governing Law, Unlimited Service and Rate Limiting, Payment and Billing, and Community Guidelines. The document now contains 155 sentences. This change appears to be a structural reorganization rather than a substantive modification of the underlying terms themselves.
Why this matters This change is a structural reorganization of the Terms of Service document. The removal of the table of contents does not modify the substantive terms governing user rights, obligations, payment, data handling, content licensing, or dispute resolution. Users should continue to operate under the same terms; the underlying rules and requirements remain in effect. No action is required on the part of users.
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May 28, 2026

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What changed Midjourney updated their Midjourney Terms of Service on May 28, 2026. Change detected: 11 sentence(s) added, 1 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 169 sentences after update.
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May 2, 2026 low

Midjourney added a table of contents restructuring its Terms of Service on May 2, 2026, organizing existing and new sections under ten labeled article headings including Service Availability, Age Requirements, …

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April 26, 2026 high

Midjourney removed 13 sentences from its Terms of Service on April 26, 2026, including entire section headers for Service Availability and Quality, Age Requirements, Your Information, Content Rights, DMCA and …

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April 19, 2026 low

Midjourney added 13 sentences that appear to be a table of contents or section headers for their Terms of Service on April 19, 2026. The change introduces labeled sections for …

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Recent Provision Changes May 29, 2026

10 provisions unchanged.

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Last Captured May 29, 2026 05:00 UTC
Capture Method Automated scheduled archival capture
Document ID CA-D-000095
Version ID CA-V-003136
SHA-256 8c963a07f5eccde0281a5b84847a8cc2abd69f6c8f4f6ef0d9588a90935b2702
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