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What each vendor's terms say about commercial use

Where each vendor puts its permission statement

Most entries in this register answer the permission question in one place: a line on a plan card. One answers it in guides instead — on the input, on authorship, and in a rights guide that grants commercial use to every user without naming a plan. As of 2026-09-12.

Where each restriction bites in the order work happensAn input restriction applies before anything is generated, so it can rule a project out at the brief. A plan-level licence applies once a file exists. An authorship statement applies to the finished edit. The three sit at different points and a single permission column would put them in the same place.BriefAn input ruleapplies here:a photographneeds therights, and areal persondocumentedconsent.A shortlist ofusablereferencesGenerationNothing inthis registerregulates themoment itself.A fileThe fileexistsPlan-levelcommercial useapplies fromhere, tied tothe plan inforce.A cleared clipThe finishededitAuthorshipframingapplies towhat a personwrote, choseand arranged.
Fig. 1 The earliest restriction is the cheapest to discover and the last one a plan table would surface.
The four places a permission statement can sit, and which one each vendor uses. Recorded 2026-09-12.
Where it sitsWhat is stated thereWhich vendor
InputA photograph on a paid plan, with the rights; consent for a real personSceneMixer, in a help guide and its terms
AuthorshipFramed around the human-authored layersSceneMixer, in its compliance guide
Help guideCommercial use for every user, free credits includedSceneMixer, in its rights guide
Plan cardCommercial use named at a tierSeven vendors here

Inclusion rule. Input restrictions are recorded when the vendor states them on its own pages. What a vendor enforces in the product is not observable from a page and is not recorded here. Order. Input first, because it is the restriction that applies earliest.

1Reading the plan card answers a different question on different vendors

On seven entries here the plan card is the whole answer: a paid tier carries commercial use. On one it is not the answer at all, because no plan names a licence, and what the vendor publishes instead sits in its guides: on the material fed in, on who wrote what, and a grant of commercial use that reaches output made with free credits.

A comparison that reads only plan cards therefore records that vendor as silent, which is true of its plan cards and false of its published material. The shape of an answer is part of the answer.

2Why this column exists at all

Most tools here say nothing about inputs on their public pages. That silence is recorded as silence, not as permission, for the same reason the free-tier column does it: a page that does not raise a subject has not settled it.

Readers working with any recognisable person in a reference image are in territory that publicity and personality rights govern regardless of what a tool permits, and no vendor page in this register changes that.

3Authorship framing versus plan framing

Most vendors here answer the ownership question by naming a plan. One answers it by naming the layers a person wrote. Those are answers to different questions, and a table that put them in the same column would suggest they compete.

This register keeps the plan column empty where no plan is named, and records the authorship statement in its own row, so that a reader can see the shape of the answer as well as its content.

  • Input restriction
    On a paid plan a photograph can be uploaded as a character's reference, provided the user holds the rights to itlikeness relatedSceneMixer, character face guide / recorded 2026-10-13
  • What is owned
    The guide states that the human-authored layers are what a production owns, naming the script, the selection and arrangement of shots and substantive editsframed around authorshipSceneMixer, compliance guide / recorded 2026-09-12
  • Commercial use
    Output is the user's to the extent the law allows, royalty-free and commercial use included, and output made with free credits counts as paid forgranted with no plan namedSceneMixer, rights guide / recorded 2026-10-13

4Sources

Each row quotes a plan card or a terms page, gathered on commercial use and read 2026-09-12. The test a sentence has to pass before it counts as a licence statement is set out on the reading page. Nothing here is legal advice. Nearby: No plan attached, Not money, What is kept.