Estate planning as a Midjourney account holder
Midjourney, Inc. accounts are forfeited when the account holder dies
Midjourney Support (no dedicated estates channel)
Midjourney is an AI image and video generation platform that creates assets from text prompts. A Midjourney account holds a library of generated images and videos, prompt history, subscription status, and usage data. Midjourney has no published bereavement policy, no account transfer mechanism, and no legacy contact feature, so the account itself is forfeited at death. The subscription and image history cannot be transferred between accounts, though Midjourney may offer a credit transfer to a living user moving to a different account. The Terms of Service state that a subscriber owns all the images and videos they create, and that ownership survives cancellation of the subscription, so the generated assets themselves are estate property even though the account holding them is not transferable. Free (non-subscriber) users receive only a non-commercial Creative Commons license. Generated assets remain on Midjourney's servers after a subscription is cancelled; an account can be deleted from the account page, which cancels the subscription immediately, opens a 7-day reconsideration window, and then deletes the account and its data within 30 days.
When a Midjourney account holder dies, their accounts are forfeited. The program's terms state that accounts do not constitute property of the account holder and cannot be transferred upon death, by operation of law, or through estate planning documents.
What happens at death
Midjourney has no published bereavement, estate, or deceased-user policy. There is no dedicated form, memorial account option, legacy-contact setting, or named support path for next of kin. The Terms of Service state that a subscriber owns all the images and videos they create, and that this ownership persists even if the subscription is cancelled, subject to the obligations in the Agreement and the rights of third parties. Companies (and employees of companies) with more than $1,000,000 USD a year in revenue must be on a Pro or Mega plan to own their assets. The consequence for an estate is a split: the generated assets are the decedent's property and pass with the estate, but the ACCOUNT that holds them does not. Midjourney's published subscription-transfer policy states that a Midjourney subscription and image history "can't be transferred," and that the image gallery, image count history, and other account-specific details will not move between accounts; Midjourney may in some cases offer a credit transfer when an existing user needs to subscribe on a different account, but that is a billing courtesy during life, not a death or estate mechanism. The Terms also allow only one user per registered account and only one account per user. In practice: files the decedent already downloaded survive in their own storage, but the live account, the subscription, and the online gallery are lost unless Midjourney elects to help. A survivor can write to Midjourney support to ask, as a discretionary matter, for an export of the archive, for the subscription and purchase records, and for the account not to be purged while the estate is opened; Midjourney publishes no process for any of it and promises no result.
Planning your estate
Protecting Midjourney accounts while the account is active
No beneficiary designation, accounts can only be redeemed, not transferred, and 6-step plan.
View details →When someone dies
Handling Midjourney accounts after a death
Accounts are forfeited under the official terms, 6-step process, and 4 required documents.
View details →Midjourney does not support beneficiary designations. Unlike bank accounts or investment accounts, there is no way to formally name a beneficiary on this type of account.
Frequently asked questions
Under Midjourney's Terms of Service, a subscriber owns all the images and videos they create, and that ownership continues even if the subscription is cancelled, subject to the obligations in the Agreement and the rights of third parties. So the assets themselves are the decedent's property and pass through their estate. Free (non-subscriber) users are granted only a non-commercial Creative Commons license and do not own their outputs. Separately, a company (or an employee of a company) with more than $1,000,000 USD a year in revenue must be on a Pro or Mega plan to own the assets they create.
Midjourney's Terms grant a paid subscriber ownership of the assets they create, but that grant is contractual and does not by itself create copyright. The U.S. Copyright Office has held that purely AI-generated output without sufficient human authorship is not registrable; work with substantial human creative contribution may carry protection in the human-authored elements. An estate should treat the assets as property it owns and can use, while understanding that the copyright position depends on how much human authorship went into them.
Sources
Data sourced from Midjourney, Inc. primary sources (12 pages reviewed). How we research.
Midjourney Support (no dedicated estates channel)
