Can I Sell AI-Generated Content? Ownership & Commercial-Use Checker

This is a lookup-and-decision tool, not a calculator. Each generative-AI tool is a record with one or more plan tiers, and every tier stores two facts taken straight from that provider's published Terms: who owns the output and whether commercial use is permitted. Ownership is one of four states — you own it; you own it but grant a non-exclusive licence back to the provider; the provider owns it; or the Terms are silent. The tool never guesses: where a provider says nothing, the cell reads "Not stated — check the Terms."

Your intended use then decides the traffic-light chip. The mapping is deterministic:

• Allowed → green for any use, including resale (unless the Terms specifically forbid reselling the output as stock).
• Paid-plan only→ green if your selected tier is already a paid one, or amber ("upgrade required") on the free tier. This is the Midjourney and Suno free-tier case.
• Restricted→ amber for personal, own-business and client use, and red for "Resale as a product" when the Terms limit commercial use, as with ElevenLabs' free voice tier.
• Not stated → grey, with a prompt to verify directly with the provider before you rely on it.

Alongside the verdict, the card shows a separate copyrightability note, keyed to the modality and citing the U.S. Copyright Office guidance on the human-authorship requirement. It is labelled "general information, not legal advice" because owning a file and holding copyright in it are two different questions: OpenAI can assign you a DALL·E image while that image may still not qualify for copyright registration in some countries. To keep the dataset honest, the build runs an internal cross-check — it re-derives every tier's commercial-use verdict a second way, from the recorded clause flags alone, and asserts the two methods agree. The "16 tools · 32tiers cross-checked" badge means all of them reconcile. Everything runs in your browser over a static, hand-verified dataset — no API calls, no scraping of live Terms.

• OpenAI — Terms of Use & Usage Policies (ChatGPT, DALL·E, GPT Image, Sora)
• Anthropic — Consumer Terms (customer owns outputs)
• Google — Generative AI Additional Terms (Gemini, Veo)
• Midjourney — Terms of Service (paid-plan ownership, revenue carve-out)
• Adobe — Generative AI User Guidelines (Firefly commercial safety)
• Stability AI — Community & Membership License (USD 1M revenue threshold)
• Suno — Terms of Service (ownership by tier)
• Udio — Terms of Service (commercial use by tier)
• ElevenLabs — Terms of Use (voice licence by plan, consent for cloning)
• Runway — Terms of Use (video output ownership)
• U.S. Copyright Office — Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (human-authorship note)

Each tool's ownership and commercial-use cells were last cross-checked against its official Terms on 2026-07-09. Provider Terms change often — this page tracks the current published version, not a historical changelog. It is informational and does not cover trademark clearance, training-data disputes, or country-specific case law, and is not a substitute for legal advice.