Earlier this month, the popular mobile video editing app CapCut updated its terms of service – and the internet isn’t happy about it. But as TikToker’s complaints over the updates rack up millions of views, I think the change highlights a more universal truth: We need terms of service that the average person can understand.
The updated terms of service include a clause that states that users give CapCut “an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable (including sub-licensable), perpetual, worldwide license to use, modify, adapt, reproduce, make derivative works of, display, publish, transmit, distribute and/or store your User Content.” The following paragraph then details a “worldwide license to use your username, image and likeness.”
