What moves and what does not when you change supplier
Changing supplier moves a permission and leaves everything else where it was. Consent records travel, input logs travel, and the licence position has to be read again from scratch. As of 2026-09-12.
| Item | Does it travel |
|---|---|
| Consent and releases for people in the material | Yes: they are owed to the person |
| Input logs and sources | Yes, and they keep answering questions |
| The licence position | No: read the new supplier's documents |
| Anything already published | Unaffected, and still governed by the old terms |
Inclusion rule. Parts of a production's rights position, sorted by whether they belong to the supplier relationship or to the material. Order. From what belongs to the material to what belongs to the supplier.
1The durable records are the ones about people and material
A release from somebody who appeared in a video is owed to that person and does not care which tool rendered the frames. The same is true of a list of what went in.
That is the argument for treating the input column of a register as the one that outlasts everything else. Licence questions move with suppliers; consent questions stay with the material.
2The licence position is not portable
A new supplier means a new document, a new plan structure and possibly a new mechanism entirely: a condition on an avatar rather than a tier, a threshold rather than a price. Nothing carries over.
Which makes a change a good moment to ask the questions that were never asked the first time, while there is still leverage and no deliverable waiting.
3Work already published stays where it was
Material produced under the old supplier remains governed by the terms that applied then. That is why the dated log matters: it separates the deliverables covered by one position from those covered by another.
A production that cannot draw that line has to treat its whole back catalogue as uncertain, which is a much larger problem than reading one new set of terms.
4Where the vendor statements are kept
The mechanics above apply to anyone. What a given vendor has committed to in writing is held on the register instead, each line with the plan page it came from and the date it was checked.
An explainer, not an entry in the register. Vendor statements are held, with their sources, on commercial use, and nothing on this page is legal advice. Related: Running weights, Consent paperwork.
5A generator's account of it
Alongside the terms behind “Changing vendor”, SceneMixer's guides describe the work itself this way:
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)
AI Edit Image on a step-2 card keeps the same character and applies a short change you describe — navy blue shirt, short curly hair, smiling — then Apply Edit.
SceneMixer, AI-Editing a Sheet: Outfit, Hair, Expression (read 2026-10-13)