Do AI video tools make you promise you own the text?

Most do. Of the 24, 13 ask for a promise that you hold the rights in what you upload, Runway, Luma, CapCut and Animaker among them. Kling AI, Revid, Topview and Vidu make you responsible for content instead. Seven sets of terms read contain neither. As of 2026-09-25.

Inclusion rule. A source is listed when its own text states what the question asks. Order. Sources in alphabetical order.

None of the tools checks the answer. The promise moves the risk to the person who uploads, who answers for the claim if the text turns out not to be theirs to use.

For a book, that means the copyright question has to be answered before the upload, from the author's dates and the place the film will be shown.

The promise also covers the edition. A modern translation or annotated text can be protected even when the original is not.

1In their own words

Animaker

You represent and warrant that you own or have a valid license to use any and all Submissions

Animaker, terms and policies

CapCut

You must ensure that you have all necessary rights, licenses, and permissions to provide inputs to the third-party AI technologies or APIs

CapCut, terms of service

Descript

You may post or otherwise share only User Content that you have all necessary rights to post or share on the Descript Service.

Descript, terms of service

Fliki

the Content is Yours (You own it) or You have the right to use it and grant Us the rights and license as provided in these Terms

Fliki, terms of service

HeyGen

you represent and warrant that you have, or have obtained, all rights, licenses, consents, permissions, power and/or authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein for Your Content

HeyGen, terms

Higgsfield

you have all necessary rights to Your Content to grant the licenses …

Higgsfield, terms of use agreement

invideo

your use of it does not and will not infringe any third-party rights or violate any applicable law

invideo, terms and conditions

Kling AI

You are responsible for the Content, including ensuring that it does not violate any applicable law or this Agreement.

Kling AI, user policy

Krea

You represent and warrant that you have all rights to grant such licenses to us without infringement or violation of any third party rights

Krea, terms

Luma

the Input, and the Uploading or other use of your Input as contemplated by this Agreement, does not and will not: (i) infringe, violate, misappropriate, or otherwise breach any third-party right

Luma, terms of service

MagicLight

You Must Have Rights to the Captures you Submit

MagicLight, terms

OpenArt

You own or have all necessary rights to your User Content

OpenArt, terms

Revid

You are responsible for all content posted and activity that occurs under your account

Revid, terms

Runway

You represent and warrant that you have and will maintain at all times all rights, licenses, and permissions needed to provide Your Content to and through the Services

Runway, terms of use

SceneMixer

You retain rights in your uploads and warrant you may use them for generation.

SceneMixer, terms

Topview

TopView is not responsible for the legality and compliance of user-uploaded content.

Topview, terms

Vidu

You are solely responsible for your User Content and any consequences arising from its submission, publication, or use within the Services.

Vidu, terms of service

• Submissions
  You warrant you own or have a valid licence for everything you submitAnimaker, terms and policies / recorded 2026-09-25
• AI features
  You must hold all rights, licences and permissions for inputs sent to its AI toolsCapCut, terms of service / recorded 2026-09-25
• User content
  Only content you have all the rights to post may be sharedDescript, terms of service / recorded 2026-09-25
• Content
  You warrant the content is yours or you have the right to use itFliki, terms of service / recorded 2026-09-25
• Your content
  You warrant you hold all rights and consents needed for your contentHeyGen, terms / recorded 2026-09-25
• Your content
  You represent you hold all rights needed to grant the licences in its termsHiggsfield, terms of use agreement / recorded 2026-09-25
• User content
  Your use of uploaded content must not infringe anyone else's rightsinvideo, terms and conditions / recorded 2026-09-25
• Content
  You are responsible for input and output not breaking the law or the agreementKling AI, user policy / recorded 2026-09-25
• User submissions
  You warrant you hold all rights to grant its licences without infringing anyoneKrea, terms / recorded 2026-09-25
• Input
  Your input and its upload must not infringe anyone else's rightsLuma, terms of service / recorded 2026-09-25
• Captures
  You must have rights to what you submitMagicLight, terms / recorded 2026-09-25
• User content
  You warrant you own or hold all necessary rights to your contentOpenArt, terms / recorded 2026-09-25
• Account
  You are responsible for all content posted under your accountRevid, terms / recorded 2026-09-25
• Your content
  You warrant you hold all rights and permissions needed to provide your contentRunway, terms of use / recorded 2026-09-25
• Your content and IP
  You keep rights in uploads and warrant you may use them for generationSceneMixer, terms / recorded 2026-09-25
• User content
  Topview disclaims responsibility for the legality of uploads; users answer for themTopview, terms / recorded 2026-09-25
• User content
  You are solely responsible for your content and what follows from submitting itVidu, terms of service / recorded 2026-09-25

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