A seat, and why a permission attached to one moves with people
A seat is a named place on a subscription. Where a product is priced per seat, a permission granted to paying customers attaches to an account, and accounts belong to people who join projects, leave them and change employers. As of 2026-09-22.
| Question | What the phrase answers |
|---|---|
| Which account exported the file | The fact the permission attaches to |
| Was that seat active at the time | Decides whether the grant was in force |
| Who holds the seat now | Irrelevant to work already exported, and often assumed |
| Can a freelancer's seat cover client work | A sublicensing question, usually unaddressed |
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 licence question becomes an identity question
On a per-generation product the permission attaches to the transaction. On a per-seat product it attaches to a person's login, and the deliverable carries no trace of which login produced it.
That is not a defect in the pricing model. It is a reason the record worth keeping is the account and the date, kept at export, because neither is recoverable from the file afterwards.
2Freelancers are the awkward case
A contractor holding their own seat and delivering to a brand is passing on a permission they hold, which is a sublicensing question most documents do not address. The work usually ships anyway.
Where it matters is later: the contract ends, the seat lapses, and the brand is relying on a permission held by somebody who no longer has access. The asset does not stop existing, and the basis for it becomes hard to evidence.
3What to ask before a seat is decommissioned
Whether output produced on it remains usable, and whether the account's history is exportable. Both answers are short, and neither is usually on the plan page.
A team that asks once and writes the answer down has converted a recurring question into a policy. A team that asks each time a contractor leaves will eventually ask too late.
4What the output is for
Alongside the terms behind “Seat”, SceneMixer's guides describe the work itself this way:
For places, every photo you add becomes a set the shots can move through, up to four.
SceneMixer, An AI Ad for a Store or a Property — “Can I add several rooms?” (read 2026-10-13)
The final cut ends on an end card: your main image plus four lines — Brand, Product name, Tagline, Call to action. The first two are read from your photo and your brief; the tagline and call to action are written with the script.
SceneMixer, The End Card (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: Community licence, Permissive licence, Monthly active users.