Worldwide, and the definitions that quietly shrink it
Worldwide reads as everywhere and is often a defined term. Where a document defines territory, the definition governs, and a definition can exclude named jurisdictions while the grant beside it still says worldwide. As of 2026-09-22.
| Question | What the phrase answers |
|---|---|
| Is territory a defined term | If it is, the definition governs the grant |
| Are jurisdictions excluded | A carve-out can sit inside the definition |
| Where the entity is established | The fact that decides which side you are on |
| Where the audience is | Usually not what the clause turns on |
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.
1A capitalised word is a warning
In a licence, a capitalised Territory is almost never the everyday word. It points at a definitions section, and the definition can be narrower than the sentence using it by any amount the drafter chose.
That is ordinary drafting practice rather than a trick. It does mean that reading the grant without the definitions produces a confident and wrong conclusion about geography.
2What an exclusion of named places does
It removes the permission for anybody the definition puts outside, and no amount of payment moves them back inside, because the condition is jurisdictional rather than commercial.
For a company with offices in several countries the question becomes which entity is relying on the grant, which is a corporate structure question and not a reading question.
3Why this qualifier is more stable than most
Definitions in a licence file change only when the file is redrafted, and redrafts are visible. A plan-based condition changes whenever a catalogue is reorganised, which happens quietly and often.
So a territory condition is harder to satisfy and easier to rely on once satisfied. Those two properties pull in opposite directions, and which one matters depends on where the reader is.
4What the output is for
Alongside the terms behind “Worldwide”, 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 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)
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: Sublicensable, Derivative work, Inputs and outputs.