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What each vendor's terms say about commercial use

The four columns every vendor row is filled from

Every vendor page on this register records the same four points, in the same order. Each one has a page here saying what it holds, how a value gets into it, and what it cannot settle. As of 2026-09-12.

What each of the four columns decides for a readerThe four headings are not four aspects of one question. Each is filled from a different part of a vendor's public writing and each settles a different decision, which is why a row can be reassuring in one column and empty in the next.Free tierWhat the free plancarriesA licence, or amissing lineWhethergenerating fornothing is safeCommercial usefromThe cheapest plan thatsays yesA plan nameWhat holding thepermission costsWhat is ownedClaims over thefinished workMostly blanksWhether anythingis exclusiveInputrestrictionWhat may not besuppliedFour publishedrulesExposure carriedin by referencesOne vendor row on the gridWhat each column decides
Fig. 1 Four columns, four decisions. A vendor row is only as useful as the weakest column a reader happens to need.

A register is only as honest as its columns. Once a heading exists, every vendor gets measured against it, and a heading that quietly mixes two questions will produce rows that look comparable and are not. These four were chosen because each maps onto a decision somebody actually has to make before a campaign ships.

They also fail in different ways, which is the reason each one earns a page. The free tier column is mostly filled from lines that are absent. The crossing point column is filled from a sentence and a plan list that live on different pages. The ownership column is filled for eight vendors, and the input column for four.

None of the four carries an interpretation. A cell holds what a vendor published, in wording close to its own, with the page it came from; where the vendor published nothing, the cell says so rather than inferring a position from the surrounding text.

1The columns

  • Free tier — What the free tier column holds, how a line missing from a plan card becomes a recorded exclusion, and which free tiers grant commercial use.
  • Commercial use from — The condition each vendor attaches to commercial use, the page that sentence was read from, and why a monthly price is not what the column records.
  • What is owned — What the owned column holds, the four shapes a published ownership answer takes here, and why a disclaimer is not the same as a grant of ownership.
  • Input restriction — What the input restriction column holds, the four vendors that fill it, and where a rule about what you may feed in usually lives instead.

A column earns a place here when the same question can be asked of every vendor and answered, or recorded as unanswered, from a page anyone can reach.

Also on the grid: Products, Records, Pairs, Questions, Words, Learn, Data. What makes a clause quotable is set out on the reading page.

2From the making side

Alongside the terms behind “Fields”, SceneMixer's guides describe the work itself this way:

Under the terms, what you generate is yours to the extent the law allows, royalty-free, commercial use included.

SceneMixer, What You Get to Keep (read 2026-10-13)

For places, every photo you add becomes a set the shots can move through, up to four.

SceneMixer, An AI Ad for a Store or a Property — “Can I add several rooms?” (read 2026-10-13)