Pictory beside Story.com: upload terms
Pictory's and Story.com's terms read differently on four of the six upload clauses: licences, training use, infringement handling and deletion. As of 2026-09-25.
| Clause | Pictory | Story.com |
|---|---|---|
| Rights you promise to hold | Not stated in the terms read | Not stated in the terms read |
| Licence you grant the tool | Limited to running the service | Perpetual and transferable |
| Uploads used for training | Used in aggregate to improve the service | May be used for training |
| Handling of infringement | Repeat infringers removed | A notice-and-takedown route |
| Whether uploads go public | Not stated in the terms read | Not stated in the terms read |
| What deletion does | Not stated in the terms read | Kept after deletion, in some form |
Inclusion rule. The six clauses every tool on the register is read for. Order. The order clauses take on every tool page.
1Where the terms differ
Story.com's terms cover deletion, where Pictory's terms read are silent. On licences, Pictory reads “limited to running the service” and Story.com reads “perpetual and transferable”. On training use, Pictory reads “used in aggregate to improve the service” and Story.com reads “may be used for training”. On infringement handling, Pictory reads “repeat infringers removed” and Story.com reads “a notice-and-takedown route”. Neither set of terms states rights warranties or visibility.
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2From each tool's terms
Licence you grant the tool
This limited license is provided by you on a worldwide royalty-free basis with a right to sub-license so that you may make full operation of our Platform and its features.
Pictory, terms of service
you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, process, analyze, and otherwise exploit your Customer Data for our business purposes
Story.com, terms of service
Uploads used for training
in a non-identifiable aggregated manner for the limited purposes of evaluating, improving, or enhancing the suite of services
Pictory, terms of service
Developing and training artificial intelligence and machine learning models
Story.com, terms of service
- Customer contentA limited licence to make your content available to you through the platform
- Rights in customer dataA worldwide, perpetual, sublicensable licence to exploit customer data for business purposes
- Customer contentContent used in a non-identifiable, aggregated way to evaluate and improve its services
- Rights in customer dataCustomer data used to develop and train AI models, though not raw personal data
3The same clauses in a third tool's terms, after Pictory and Story.com
| Clause | SceneMixer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Uploads used for training | Uploads and outputs not used to train models without separate consent | SceneMixer, terms |
| Handling of infringement | Takedown notices to a support address; repeat infringers may be terminated | SceneMixer, terms |
| What deletion does | Deletion can be requested at any time | SceneMixer, terms |
Inclusion rule. Clauses on which the two tools' terms differ, read in SceneMixer's own terms of service. Order. The order clauses take on every tool page.