A public generation, and the exclusivity it spends
Where a product makes generations visible to other customers by default, that visibility is a commercial term. It does not affect whether a clip may run; it affects whether anybody else can produce something that looks like it. As of 2026-09-22.
| Question | What the phrase answers |
|---|---|
| Whether the clip may be published | Unchanged by visibility |
| Whether others can copy the approach | Exactly what visibility permits |
| Ownership of the output | Conditioned on it, in some documents |
| What privacy usually costs | A paid plan, on such products |
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.
1Visibility is priced, which tells you it is an asset
Where privacy is what a paid plan sells, the product is charging for exclusivity rather than for permission. That is a coherent model and an unusual one to meet while reading a licence column.
It also means a free tier can be entirely usable for work nobody minds being copied, and entirely unsuitable for a launch that depends on a look. Same licence, different answer.
2The ownership sentence sometimes turns on it
Some documents attach full rights to a private generation and retain broad rights over a public one. Where that is the case, the setting selects which sentence applies, and two files made minutes apart can sit on different sides.
For a team with freelancers that is a per-clip audit rather than a policy, and audits of settings nobody logged do not go well. The record to keep is the setting, at export.
3What a brand should decide before starting
Whether the look is an asset. If it is, privacy is not a nice-to-have and the plan that provides it is the one to buy, whatever the licence column says.
If it is not, a public tier may be the correct commercial choice, and the register's job is to make sure nobody discovers the trade after a competitor has remixed the concept.
4A generator's account of it
Alongside the terms behind “Public generation”, SceneMixer's guides describe the work itself this way:
A dish photo is cleaned into a product shot and the ad is built around it.
SceneMixer, An AI Ad for a Restaurant, a Café or a Dish — “Will the dish look like my dish?” (read 2026-10-13)
Under the terms, what you generate is yours to the extent the law allows, royalty-free, commercial use included.
SceneMixer, What You Get to Keep (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 what is owned, and the reading rules are on the reading page. Next words: Stock library, Enterprise licence, No statement published.