What this register refuses to put in a cell
A cell holds what a document says. It will not hold an interpretation of what falls outside a clause, a prediction about how a court would read it, a judgement about whether a product is good, or advice about a particular campaign. As of 2026-09-22.
| Kind of statement | Recorded here |
|---|---|
| What a document says, with its address and date | Yes |
| What a clause probably means for an unnamed case | No |
| Whether a term would survive a dispute | No: a question for a lawyer with the facts |
| Whether a product is a good choice | No: that needs criteria a reader supplies |
Inclusion rule. Rules this register applies to every row. A rule is written down here when following it changes what a cell says, or when breaking it would make the grid look more complete than it is. Order. Reading order: the ordinary case first, then the awkward ones.
1The line is sharper than it sounds
Whether a vendor's terms grant commercial use on a named plan is a reading question anybody can check. Whether that grant survives a dispute about training data is a legal question, and the two are asked in almost the same words.
Keeping them apart is the only way a register stays quotable. A grid that answered the second kind would be giving advice while appearing to quote, which is the most damaging thing a site like this can do.
2Interpretation creeps in through helpfulness
The temptation is always to finish a vendor's sentence: to write not permitted where a line is missing, or to note that a clause probably covers a case the document does not name. Both feel like service to the reader.
Both also transfer the risk from the vendor to the register, and from the register to whoever quotes it. The cell says what was published, and the page beside it says what the cell does not settle.
3What a reader gets instead
Wording, an address, a date and a note about the gap. That is enough to take a question to counsel with the vendor's own sentence in hand, which is worth considerably more than a summary of it.
It is also enough to spot the questions worth asking a supplier directly. Most of the gaps recorded here close with one short email.
4The rest of the method
A rule about recording, not a statement about any vendor: nothing on this page is attributed and nothing on it is legal advice. The rules are collected on the reading page, the quoted clauses are on commercial use, and the cells this rule produced are on the recorded cells. Nearby rules: Rewording, Weights and plans.
5A generator's account of it
Alongside the terms behind “Not recorded”, SceneMixer's guides describe the work itself this way:
On the end card, yes, along with the product name, the tagline and the call to action, in the language of the ad.
SceneMixer, AI Ad Video Generator — “Will my brand name appear in the video?” (read 2026-10-13)
The product image is always redrawn from your original photo so it stays your product.
SceneMixer, Ad Projects and Remake Projects: What Looks Different in the Wizard and the Editor, and Why — “Can I redraw the product from text?” (read 2026-10-13)