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Runway's Usage Policy


At Runway, our mission is to help people tell stories by building the tools that can help them do so. Our usage policy—combined with our Standard Terms of Use and Enterprise Terms of Use—seeks to enable creative expression, while mitigating the risk of potential harm. 

 

Children’s Safety

We prohibit the following:

  • Content that depicts, facilitates, or promotes child sexual abuse or the sexualization of children. We report any child sexual abuse material (CSAM) that we become aware of to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which works with global law enforcement agencies around the world, and we indefinitely suspend all associated accounts. 
  • Content that facilitates minor grooming, including generating content designed to impersonate a minor
  • Content depicting child abuse or minor participation in harmful or dangerous acts

We also apply a stricter standard for potential harmful and inappropriate content (as outlined below) when a child is depicted.  

Violence & Gore

We prohibit the following:

  • Content that depicts, facilitates, or promotes terrorism or violent extremism
  • Depictions of graphic violence, or that incite violence
  • Depictions of gore, such as dismemberment, beheadings, mutilations, and exposed organs/bones/muscle 
  • Depiction or promotion of animal abuse

Sexually Explicit Content & Nudity

We prohibit the following:

  • Depictions of sexually explicit content, including sex toys and certain fetish content
  • Depictions of adult nudity
  • Attempts to create or modify non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)

Hateful Conduct, Harassment, and Self-Harm

We prohibit the following:

  • Content that dehumanizes or promotes discrimination or violence on the basis of a protected attribute such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexual orientation
  • Use of the service to create content with the aim of harassing, bullying, intimidating, defaming, or abusing others
  • Content that depicts, facilitates, or promotes self-harm, including disordered eating

Content that May Violate the Rights of Others

We prohibit the following:

  • Use of an individual's likeness without their permission, including both public and private figures
  • Content that compromises the privacy of others
  • Content that may violate intellectual property rights
  • Attempts to create content in the style of a living artist

Misleading Content

We prohibit the following:

  • Use of the service to defraud, scam, or deliberately mislead others
  • Use of the service to impersonate an individual or entity, or to misrepresent your affiliation with an individual or entity 

This list is not exhaustive, and these policies will continue to evolve over time as our products and their use changes. Repeated violations of these policies, including repeated attempts to resubmit a flagged input, may lead to suspension of your account. If you believe your account has been wrongly suspended, you can appeal by emailing suspensions@runwayml.com

If you encounter Runway content that you believe violates any of these policies, please report it immediately