Rights
Rights, ownershipand AI.
What you receive when we deliver, what we need from you, and how copyright treats work made with AI. In plain words; your written quote and our terms are the agreement.
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What you receive
When the final invoice is paid, you get a perpetual, worldwide licence to use the delivered films and files commercially: on your site, in ads, on social, on screens and in print, in any market. We also transfer to you every right we hold in the final film.
Project files, raw generations and source files are not part of a delivery unless your written quote includes them. For websites, apps and agents, what you own and what you license (code, third-party components, hosting and store accounts) is written into your quote before the build starts.
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Likeness and voice
We never put a real, identifiable person's face or voice in your film without that person's written consent. If your film features you, your team or your customers, we ask for their consent before production.
Characters we create for a film are fictional. If a character must not resemble a real person, tell us and we check the film for it before delivery.
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Your inputs
Briefs, scripts, product files, footage and data you send us are confidential. We use them only to make your project, and we do not use them to train AI models.
Some production steps run on third-party services. Which services process your material, and how, is listed in our privacy notice. If something must not leave our hands, tell us before production starts and we work without it.
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Music and third-party marks
Music in your film is licensed for the uses your licence covers, or composed for the film.
Logos, products, footage or trademarks that belong to someone else appear only when you have the right to use them, and you confirm that when you send them. Spec films we make on our own are labelled as spec and are not affiliated with the brands they show.
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NDA and portfolio
Need confidentiality before you share anything? Accept our short Review NDA online, or send yours and we sign it before the first call.
We may show your film in our portfolio once it is public, unless you ask us not to in writing. Projects under an NDA, and anything not yet launched, are never shown without your written permission.
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Copyright and AI
In January 2025 the US Copyright Office published part two of its report on copyright and artificial intelligence. It concluded that material generated by AI from prompts alone is not protected by copyright, while human authorship, such as creative selection and arrangement or human changes to the material, can be. Whether a given work is protected depends on how it was made.
That is why we describe what you receive as a licence, and why every DN film is written, boarded, directed and edited by people.
This page summarises how we work. It is not legal advice. If anything here and your signed agreement differ, the agreement wins.