AI terms
Effective and last updated: October 20, 2026
How AI is used in the work we deliver, what we promise and what we ask of you. The plain-language version is AI Standards. For a project, your signed quote and its Schedules A and B are the agreement.
What AI content means
- Work we deliver may contain content generated or altered with AI, including digitally recast likenesses, synthetic or converted voices and generated imagery.
- Your quote’s Schedule A lists the AI elements planned. At handover, the delivery index lists each AI shot, voice and generated element.
- Helper tools such as noise reduction, transcription or upscaling aren’t AI content, but your delivery notes list them.
Labelling
- Every delivery with AI content ends with a disclosure card, for example: “This video contains AI-generated and AI-altered imagery and voices. Performers’ likenesses and voices were digitally recast with consent.”
- You approve the wording and placement before delivery, and you can add an on-screen label, a caption line or the platform’s own AI label.
- We embed Content Credentials (C2PA) where supported. You agree not to remove, hide or shorten the disclosures, the Content Credentials or any tool watermark, and to turn on each platform’s AI-disclosure setting (such as YouTube’s, TikTok’s and Meta’s) when you publish.
Synthetic performers in ads (New York)
- New York General Business Law § 396-b: any advertisement we create that contains a synthetic performer (an AI-generated human performer not recognizable as any real person) carries a conspicuous disclosure on our end card: “This performance features a synthetic performer.”
- The disclosure is mandatory for any ad that may run in New York, and you agree to keep it in every such use.
- Ads for expressive works (films, series and streaming programs) are exempt only where the synthetic performer’s use in the ad matches its use in the work itself.
- A disclosure never replaces consent. No real person’s likeness or voice is used without their own signed release.
What you agree to
- You’re responsible for the truth of any advertising claims. Any testimonial or endorsement must be the honest opinion and real experience of a real, identified person who has agreed in writing.
- You won’t present AI content as a real customer, a real event or a real person’s statement unless that person has authorized it and the work is labelled as AI-altered.
- You’ll tell us in writing before using the work in political, election or social-issue advertising, and then follow the election laws and platform rules that apply.
- Where the work is shown in the European Union, you’ll give the disclosure Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires when it’s first shown, and keep it in every later use.
- You’re responsible for claims that come from removing disclosures, unsupported claims, or using the work beyond the agreed scope.
Consent
- Nobody is filmed or recorded, and no one’s face or voice is used in AI tools, without their own signed release, given before capture.
- You supply the releases for anyone you provide, and for any real person’s likeness you ask us to use.
- We won’t create content showing a real, identifiable person without that person’s documented consent.
Copyright and ownership
- In the US, copyright protects only human authorship. Frames, voices or music made purely by AI may not be protected at all, so we don’t promise that any AI element can be copyrighted, is unique, or can be registered. Schedule A lists those elements so you can describe them correctly if you register the work.
- We transfer, or license, whatever rights we hold in the work under your quote. See Asset licenses.
- Our tools, workflows, templates, presets, prompts and trained models stay ours. They aren’t part of what we deliver.
AI vendor terms
- The work is made with third-party AI services. None of them indemnifies its users, and we don’t pass on or offer any vendor indemnity or warranty.
- AI vendors say similar outputs may be generated for other users, so AI elements aren’t guaranteed to be unique or exclusive.
- The vendors’ rules apply to the AI elements: no use to deceive, impersonate, harass or defame; no sexual content of real people; and no political campaigning with AI voices without the vendor’s written consent.
Confidential material
Some AI services may use what’s uploaded to them to train their models. Higgsfield, for example, may do so unless an enterprise agreement applies. Tell us before you sign if anything you supply is confidential. We then process it only on services, or our own local tools, that don’t train on uploads, and the work never appears in our portfolio, showreel or case studies.
What we won’t make
Some work we turn down whatever the budget. The full list is on AI Standards.
Contact
VCinema LLC, doing business as VCinema Studios, Atlanta, Georgia. Email VCinema.Studios@gmail.com.
