Overview

• The original July 1 update appeared to grant WeTransfer a perpetual, royalty-free license to use user files for AI-driven content moderation and model training.
• Users and creative professionals expressed outrage from July 14–16, threatening to abandon the platform over perceived loss of content control.
• WeTransfer spokespersons told BBC News that the disputed language was meant only to enable future content moderation and not to train machine learning models on customer uploads.
• On July 16, the company amended its terms to remove all references to machine learning and now grants only a royalty-free license to operate, develop, and improve the service.
• The revised terms, which take effect on August 8 for existing accounts, reaffirm that users retain full ownership and all intellectual property rights to their content.