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loomingspector · 10 hours ago

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Here’s a clear-eyed breakdown of the CapCut Terms of Service based on your request for "bullshit that takes advantage of users." While not every clause is malicious, several stand out as exploitative, overreaching, or unfairly skewed in favor of the company. Below is an analysis of key concerning areas:

🚨 1. Content Ownership and Licensing – You Give Them Everything, Forever

Quote: "you hereby grant us... an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable (including sub-licensable), perpetual, worldwide license to use... your User Content"

Why it's BS: You give CapCut a permanent license to use anything you upload, modify it, and let others use it too—forever, for free. Even worse, if your content involves music, they’re saying you must deal with music rights and PROs (Performance Rights Organizations) yourself, and if you fail, it’s your fault.

Translation: You do the work, they get to profit from or reuse it in any way, risk-free.

🚨 2. Waiver of Moral and Publicity Rights

Quote: "You hereby waive (to the extent permitted by applicable law) and agree never to assert any and all moral rights..."

Why it's BS: This means you can't even object if your name, image, or work is used in ways you find offensive or damaging. You're stripped of personality rights that are normally protected in many jurisdictions.

⚠️ 3. Termination For Any Reason, No Refund Guarantee

Quote: "We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account... with or without notice at any time, for no reason or any reason..."

Why it's sketchy: They can cut you off at will, and you could lose access to your content, paid features, or cloud storage—and there’s no guarantee of getting it back or being refunded.

⚠️ 4. Refund Policy Loopholes

Quote: "You may... cancel... within 14 calendar days... provided that you do not have any usage of the Premium Services in any form..."

Why it’s exploitative: If you so much as click a button or preview a tool, you may forfeit your right to a refund—even within the refund window. That’s a trap.

⚠️ 5. Third-Party Liability Dumping

Quote: "You release us from all claims... arising out of or in any way connected with your disputes with such third parties."

Why it’s problematic: If they use shady third-party tools, AI integrations, or content, you eat the risk. Even if you're harmed, they won’t back you up.

🚩 6. Indemnification Clause

Quote: "You shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless [CapCut]... from and against any and all... claims... costs, and expenses..."

Why it's dangerous: If someone sues CapCut over your content (even if it’s an honest mistake), you pay their legal fees. That’s a huge burden on individuals.

⚠️ 7. Forced Arbitration & Jurisdiction

Quote: "Arbitration... in Singapore (or California for US users)... no class actions allowed... you must sue within 1 year."

Why it’s unfair: This prevents class-action lawsuits, pushes disputes into arbitration (less consumer-friendly), and severely limits your ability to seek justice.

⚠️ 8. “Feedback” License Grab

Quote: "You grant us a... perpetual, worldwide and unlimited license... to exploit the Feedback... without attribution..."

Why it's abusive: You give them free use of your ideas—forever—and they don’t owe you a cent or credit. That’s a great deal… for them.

⚠️ 9. No Guarantee of Content Availability

Quote: "We do not guarantee the permanent availability of your content... you should back up anything you value."

Why it's not user-friendly: Despite offering cloud services, they take no responsibility if your data is lost—even if it’s their fault.

⚠️ 10. “We Can Change Anything, Anytime”

Quote: "We reserve the right to change our Service Plans... pricing... or features at any time..."

Why it’s exploitative: You may sign up under certain terms, but they can strip features, raise prices, or change conditions after the fact—with your continued use deemed as consent.

🧾 Verdict: Terms Heavily Favor CapCut/Bytedance

✅ Some protective clauses are reasonable for a commercial platform.

❌ Many terms strip users of rights, push liability onto them, and give the company free rein to exploit, modify, and profit from user content.

🚨 Artists, creators, and minors especially should be cautious.

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This breakdown was made by a reddit user, using ChatGPT (gross), to find the faults in the new Terms and Services. Here is the OG post.

Again Share to everyone please, this is complete bullshit. They're trying to hide it in Pages and Pages of legal speak so you don't know what you're signing

To all creators!!!

CapCut has updated their terms and services and it’s really shit

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They apparently now have worldwide usage rights to what you upload on there. And if that includes a copy righted song, YOU could get in trouble for it.

EVEN if you’re just editing it and NOT uploading/exporting it anywhere they still have the rights to it

And they can use it for advertising and you can’t get them to take it down

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Spread the message so creators don’t fall into this shit

STOP USING CAPCUT