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This looks really great, congrats! Forgive me if I missed something, but I was wondering if you could clear up some confusion. From the terms: "Subject to the B

This looks really great, congrats! Forgive me if I missed something, but I was wondering if you could clear up some confusion. From the terms: "Subject to the Biometric Data Agreement, you hereby grant to us a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform, and publicly display Your Voice, Digital Voice..." Just to be clear, the license of the voice/digital voice is revoked upon deletion of the recordings? I understand it is subject to the biometric agreement, but the words perpetual and irrevocable still worried me. Thanks!

sotelo 9y ago
Yes! This is what our lawyers suggested to protect ourselves. We delete all the recordings when you click delete, so we can't recreate the voice anymore. However, this is still necessary in case we share some generated sentences in social media or so (like we're doing on twitter now).
- Raynak 9y ago
  I don't believe you.
- JoshTriplett 9y ago
  > However, this is still necessary in case we share some generated sentences in social media or so (like we're doing on twitter now). This is something that you should only do with the permission of the user who provided the voice. You don't need generalized permission to do that for every user, and given the nature of the technology, you shouldn't ask for such permission.
  - Whitestrake 9y ago
    From the grandparent comment: > This is what our lawyers suggested to protect ourselves. Generally speaking, a lawyer's advice is going to be optimized for maximum protection in possibly unforeseeable circumstances, not for what might actually be needed or even reasonable to request of every user. Generally speaking, companies aren't going to go out of their way to rein in their lawyer. Most people won't even read that fine print, unfortunately.

sotelo 9y ago

Yes! This is what our lawyers suggested to protect ourselves. We delete all the recordings when you click delete, so we can't recreate the voice anymore. However, this is still necessary in case we share some generated sentences in social media or so (like we're doing on twitter now).

Raynak 9y ago
I don't believe you.
JoshTriplett 9y ago
> However, this is still necessary in case we share some generated sentences in social media or so (like we're doing on twitter now). This is something that you should only do with the permission of the user who provided the voice. You don't need generalized permission to do that for every user, and given the nature of the technology, you shouldn't ask for such permission.
- Whitestrake 9y ago
  From the grandparent comment: > This is what our lawyers suggested to protect ourselves. Generally speaking, a lawyer's advice is going to be optimized for maximum protection in possibly unforeseeable circumstances, not for what might actually be needed or even reasonable to request of every user. Generally speaking, companies aren't going to go out of their way to rein in their lawyer. Most people won't even read that fine print, unfortunately.