Mistral AI says you own the text, images, or other content generated by its AI based on your prompts, and the company assigns any rights it might have in those outputs to you.
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The provision allocates intellectual property rights between the parties by clarifying that generated outputs vest in the user rather than remaining with Mistral AI, establishing the user's authority to use, modify, or commercialize outputs without further licensing from the service provider.
Added a new grant of license back to Mistral AI for use of User Data, significantly expanding Mistral's rights while user retains ownership.
View full change record →Mistral AI assigns output ownership to you, which is favourable for users who want to use AI-generated content commercially, but the phrase 'to the extent permitted by applicable law' means legal uncertainty around AI copyright could limit this right in practice.
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"To the extent permitted by applicable law, as between you and Mistral AI, you (i) retain all ownership rights in Input and (ii) own all Output. We assign to you all right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output that we may have.— Excerpt from Mistral AI's Mistral AI Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision engages US copyright law (17 U.S.C. §102 — human authorship requirement, Thaler v. Vidal precedent), EU copyright directives (Directive 2001/29/EC), and the emerging AI Act framework. The US Copyright Office has stated that AI-generated works without human authorship are not copyrightable, which limits the practical effect of this assignment. (2)
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The provision allocates intellectual property rights between the parties by clarifying that generated outputs vest in the user rather than remaining with Mistral AI, establishing the user's authority to use, modify, or commercialize outputs without further licensing from the service provider.
Mistral AI assigns output ownership to you, which is favourable for users who want to use AI-generated content commercially, but the phrase 'to the extent permitted by applicable law' means legal uncertainty around AI copyright could limit this right in practice.
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