When you use Midjourney, you give the company a permanent, irrevocable, free license to use, copy, modify, display, and distribute everything you create or upload — even after you cancel your account.
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The license authorizes Midjourney and its successors to use user-generated inputs and outputs for any purpose without time limitation, geographic restriction, or obligation to pay compensation. The sublicensing right permits Midjourney to authorize third parties to exercise these same rights.
Midjourney removed substantial sections from its Terms of Service covering age requirements, content rights, DMCA policy, dispute resolution, payment and billing, and community guidelines. The removal of these section headers and their substantive content means users no longer have explicit written guidance on these critical areas within the primary terms document. This creates operational uncertainty about what terms now govern these areas: whether they were relocated to separate policies, consolidated elsewhere, or eliminated entirely cannot be determined from this change summary alone. The absence of explicit terms on dispute resolution, age verification, and content rights represents a material change in contractual transparency.
View change record →Users permanently relinquish significant control over their content — Midjourney retains the right to sublicense and distribute user-generated assets and inputs even after the user relationship ends. This has material implications for creators relying on Midjourney for commercially sensitive or proprietary creative work.
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"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, sublicense, and distribute the Content You input into the Services, as well as any Assets produced by You through the Service.— Excerpt from Midjourney's Midjourney Terms of Service
The perpetual, sublicensable, royalty-free license over user inputs and outputs raises significant IP chain-of-title concerns for enterprise buyers and raises questions under GDPR Article 6 regarding lawful basis for processing personal data embedded in creative inputs. Legal teams should assess whether this license conflicts with client confidentiality or work-product protections.
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The license authorizes Midjourney and its successors to use user-generated inputs and outputs for any purpose without time limitation, geographic restriction, or obligation to pay compensation. The sublicensing right permits Midjourney to authorize third parties to exercise these same rights.
Users permanently relinquish significant control over their content — Midjourney retains the right to sublicense and distribute user-generated assets and inputs even after the user relationship ends. This has material implications for creators relying on Midjourney for commercially sensitive or proprietary creative work.
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