An indemnity, and why almost nobody in this subject offers one
An indemnity is a promise to cover somebody else's loss if a claim arrives. It is the strongest thing a supplier can offer about generated output, it is rare in this subject, and a provenance claim is what usually appears instead. As of 2026-09-22.
| Question | What the phrase answers |
|---|---|
| A permission | We will not object to this use |
| A provenance claim | Our training material was licensed or expired |
| An indemnity | We will cover your loss if somebody claims |
| Nothing | The commonest position, and rarely stated as such |
Inclusion rule. Phrases that appear in more than one vendor's permissions documents and that change what a sentence means. A phrase used by a single vendor in a single clause is described on that vendor's own page instead. Order. Reading order: where you meet it, then what it settles, then what it does not.
1The gap between reassurance and assumption of risk
A permission costs a supplier nothing to give. An indemnity is a contingent liability that finance has to reserve against, which is why it appears in enterprise agreements and almost never on a public page.
The practical consequence is that a brand carries the risk of a training-data claim unless it has negotiated otherwise. Reading a provenance statement as an indemnity is the single most expensive misreading available in this subject.
2What an indemnity would have to specify
Which claims are covered, what the cap is, whether defence costs are included, and what the customer has to do to keep the cover: notify promptly, not settle, cooperate. A sentence promising to indemnify with none of that attached is thin.
Which is also why the absence of the word on a public page is not evidence that nothing is available. Enterprise terms are negotiated and unpublished, and a register reading public pages cannot see them.
3What stands in for it
A statement about training material, which addresses the same worry from a different direction: rather than covering a claim, it argues the claim is unlikely. Useful, and not a transfer of risk.
For a regulated brand the question to ask a supplier is short: is an indemnity available on enterprise terms. The answer determines who is carrying an exposure that nobody has priced.
4What the output is for
Alongside the terms behind “Indemnity”, SceneMixer's guides describe the work itself this way:
The terms grant you the output to the extent the law allows, and that includes commercial use.
SceneMixer, What You Get to Keep — “Do I own the copyright in what I generate?” (read 2026-10-13)
The photo is cleaned into a product shot and that object appears in every shot.
SceneMixer, An AI Ad for a Physical Product — “Will the product look like my product?” (read 2026-10-13)
5Where the sourced wording is
A word page, not an entry in the register: nothing above is attributed to any vendor and nothing above is legal advice. The quoted clauses are on commercial use, the column this phrase turns up in is commercial use from, and the reading rules are on the reading page. Next words: As is, Termination, Suspension.