Why it matters: many earlier candidates pin prices and schemas on fal (e.g. C3-B501..C3-B507), and vendor pages there carry a "Commercial use" badge, but the governing rights are layered. From fal's terms (R1): (1) Inputs - the customer keeps ownership; fal receives a non-exclusive,...

Why it matters: many earlier candidates pin prices and schemas on fal (e.g. C3-B501..C3-B507), and vendor pages there carry a "Commercial use" badge, but the governing rights are layered. From fal's terms (R1): (1) Inputs - the customer keeps ownership; fal receives a non-exclusive, non-sublicensable licence to process Customer Input "to provide the Services" (no training licence stated for inputs). (2) Usage Data - defined as anonymised or aggregated data "which may include data based on or derived from Customer Input", which fal owns and may use to "design, develop, and offer Company products, services, and AI models" - so the no-training reading of inputs is not absolute for derived aggregate data. (3) Outputs - no clause assigning output ownership was found; fal "does not represent, warrant, or covenant that any Output Content will be original, will not infringe rights of any third party", outputs may be the same or similar for other users, and use is at the customer's own risk; inputs and outputs generated for the customer count as the customer's Confidential Information. (4) Third-party models - "machine learning models hosted by third parties" are Third-Party Materials whose use "may be subject to additional terms ... of the providers"; customers may not use them or their outputs to train competing models, redistribute their training data, or closely mimic their training assets. (5) Indemnity runs from customer to fal for input infringement, privacy/publicity and breach claims. Decision rule: for client or broadcast work through an aggregator, read the model provider's own terms as well (e.g. Kling API terms C3-B495-01, Sonilo plan rights C3-B506-02, Mirelo training licence C3-B507-01), and do not treat a host's "commercial use" label as an indemnity or rights clearance. An enterprise agreement with fal may change these defaults (the indemnity clause notes other written agreements). Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Only fal's terms of service read; per-model terms, privacy policy and enterprise terms not read. Not legal advice. Limitations: Only fal ToS read; per-model terms pages on fal (if any), fal privacy policy, and enterprise terms not read; whether a given partner (e.g. Sonilo, Mirelo) applies its API training terms to fal-routed calls is unknown. Not legal advice. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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    {
      "url": "https://fal.ai/legal/terms-of-service",
      "note": "s6(a) Customer Input; Definitions: Usage Data; AI Features; s14 Third-Party Content"
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