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What each vendor's terms say about commercial use

SceneMixer takes a photograph with the rights, and a real person with consent

On a paid plan a photograph can be uploaded as a character's reference, provided the user holds the rights to it. The terms draw a separate line for real people: deepfakes without documented consent are prohibited. As of 2026-09-12.

Refusing an input category against conditioning itThree other vendors in this column ask the customer to hold permission. Declining the input altogether removes the question, because no photograph of a real person enters the pipeline, and it also removes a legitimate use.Conditioning the inputRefusing the categoryWhat the customer must doHold and keep a permissionNothing, for this inputWhat is still possibleA presenter who consentedNo likeness of a real personWhere the risk goesTo whoever uploadedOut of the pipelineHow it can changeBy redrafting a termBy shipping a releaseTwo ways to answer the same column, with different costs
Fig. 1 A posture describes how a product is built; a term changes only when a document does.
One cell of the register: SceneMixer on the input restriction, read from its compliance guide on 2026-09-12.
What the record holdsAs published
The published wordingA photograph on a paid plan, with the rights; documented consent for a real person
Where it appearsA help guide on character faces, and the terms of service
How the reading was establishedStated as a permission with two conditions, rights and consent
What the cell leaves openWhat documented consent has to look like in practice

Inclusion rule. One vendor, one column. A cell earns a page when the vendor publishes something specific there, or when its silence is unusual beside the vendors read with it. Order. Fixed order: the wording, then its address, then the method, then the gap.

1Permission plus paperwork

The other entries in this column put a condition on what the customer supplies, and this one does too: a photograph is accepted on a paid plan when the user holds the rights to it, and a real person's likeness needs that person's documented consent.

That keeps the legitimate use open. A presenter who looks like a specific person, with that person's written agreement, is something a brand can ask for here.

2Two documents, two kinds of promise

The photo rule sits in a help guide, which describes how the product works; the consent rule sits in the terms, which bind the customer. The register records both with the date they were read, because a guide can change with a release and a term changes only when the document is redrafted.

3What the rest of this vendor's row looks like beside it

All four cells on this row carry something: an authorship framing for ownership, this permission for inputs, and a grant of commercial use to every user in the two columns about plans and free tiers, published in a separate rights guide.

That is an unusual distribution. Most vendors here fill the plan columns and leave the production questions empty; this row fills both kinds.

  • 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

4Where this reading came from

The cell above was taken from the compliance guide published at scenemixer.com, as that page stood on 2026-09-12. The remaining three cells of the same vendor row sit on SceneMixer; the column itself is described on input restriction. This is a filing decision and not legal advice. Cells nearby: Pika, free tier, LTX Studio, free tier.