Update July 15 2:15 p.m.: Wetransfer has again changed its conditions of use. The mentions mentioned below no longer appear. Instead, the company says: ” In order to allow us to operate, provide you with and improve the service and our technologies, we must obtain certain rights relating to the content covered by intellectual property rights from you ». In this section, she no longer mentions the improvement of models, but she adds: “ By this, you grant us a free rights license to use your content in order to exploit, develop and improve the service, in accordance with our confidentiality and cookie policy ».
Note that this new modification has not been dated since the Wetransfer conditions of use always indicates ” Last update: June 23, 2025 ». The PDF of the June 23 version was archived on July 2. The new one is also on the internet archive.
Original article published on July 15 at 10:20 am:
Wetransfer, the service to send large files, has changed its conditions of use to be able to cause its AI models, spotted Rami Ismail. The modification was made on June 23, 2025 and must apply from August 8.
In the “License for Wetransfer” section the company says: ” You grant us by this perpetual, global, non-exclusive, free, transferable, transferable and which can be subject to an underside to use your content for exploitation, development, marketing and improvement of the service or new technologies or new services, including to improve the performance of automatic learning models that improve our content moderation process, in accordance with the policy in terms of confidentiality and cookies and cookies ».
She claims that “ This license includes the right to reproduce, distribute, modify, prepare derived works, disseminate, communicate to the public, publicly display and make content ». And the company adds that the user will not be able to request compensation for the use of its content.
As Film Stories explains, Wetransfer is widely used by creators who can have rendering whose files are quite large. The service allows you to send this kind of files after downloading them to the company’s servers.
Alternatives exist. For example, Disroot or Ethibox host a service of the same kind using LUFI free software.