Runway: uploads used for training

On whether uploads may train models, Runway's terms read: Inputs and outputs may be used to train and improve its models. As of 2026-09-25.

You acknowledge that Inputs and Outputs may be used by the Company to train and improve its AI models

Runway, terms of use

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  Inputs and outputs may be used to train and improve its modelsRunway, terms of use / recorded 2026-09-25

1What “may be used for training” means here

A clause that allows training means your text may shape later versions of the model. The terms read do not say it will be reproduced, and they do not rule out its influence either.

2Other tools with this reading

Descript, HeyGen, Higgsfield, Krikey AI, Story.com and Vidu have the same reading, which makes 7 of the 24 tools.

This is how the clause reads on its face; how a court would read it is a separate matter.

3Why it matters for a book

For an unpublished manuscript or a script under option, this is the clause most likely to matter. Text that has helped train a model cannot be taken back out of it, and deleting the project afterwards does not change that.

4Runway on the other clauses

• Rights you promise to hold: You warrant you hold the rights
• Licence you grant the tool: Perpetual and transferable
• Handling of infringement: Infringing uploads prohibited
• Whether uploads go public: Public only if you share it
• What deletion does: Not stated in the terms read

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

• Runway, all six clauses
• Uploads used for training, every tool
• Pictory on this clause
• Topview on this clause