Pika: whether uploads go public

What Pika's terms say about whether uploads and creations are public: content becomes public only if you choose to make it so. As of 2026-09-25.

If you choose to make your User Content public, it may be viewed, tagged, or interacted with by other users

Pika, terms of service

• User content
  Content becomes public only if you choose to make it soPika, terms of service / recorded 2026-09-25

1What “public only if you share it” means here

Public only by choice means nothing is shown to other users until you share it. The default protects an unpublished text, as long as the share button is not pressed by mistake.

2Other tools with this reading

Descript, Runway, SceneMixer and Topview have the same reading, which makes 5 of the 24 tools.

Terms of service change without notice, so the current version on the tool's site governs.

3Why it matters for a book

For an unpublished book this is the plainest risk: a manuscript or a scene visible in a community gallery has been published in the ordinary sense, whatever the licence says.

4Pika on the other clauses

• Rights you promise to hold: Not stated in the terms read
• Licence you grant the tool: Worldwide, transferable and sublicensable
• Uploads used for training: Not stated in the terms read
• Handling of infringement: A notice-and-takedown route
• What deletion does: Kept only within plan or storage limits

Inclusion rule. Every tool on the register, with or without its own page on this clause. Order. Alphabetical by tool name.

5More on this clause

• Pika, all six clauses
• Whether uploads go public, every tool
• Krea on this clause
• Runway on this clause