AI Rights & Provenance

This document is designed to be forwarded to your legal team, your distribution partners (streaming platforms, broadcasters), and your compliance reviewers. It covers four questions: who owns the output, what we do with your canon data,how providers are licensed, and how downstream parties can verify provenance.

1. Output ownership

You own every shot generated through your workspace. Milk & Ink claims no copyright, no license-back, and no rights of exploitation over your finished content.

This applies to draft generations, final renders, approved versions, and release manifests. You may publish, license, sell, and sublicense your output without attribution to Milk & Ink (though we appreciate it).

Note: the underlying AI models that generate video (ByteDance Seedance for anime projects; Runway for photoreal projects) have their own terms regarding output ownership. As of September 2026, every provider we integrate grants customers ownership of generated output. We maintain a current audit of provider terms at legal@milkink.studio on request.

2. Training data — granted at signup, revocable by you

On every self-serve plan — Spark (Indie), Creator (Pro), Series, Production, and Studio — you grant us a license to use Your Content to train and improve our AI systems when you create your account, and training capture is active from that point unless you turn it off. This is the same training license set out in Section 3 of our Terms of Service, which you accept via the required checkbox at signup, and described in more detail in our Privacy Policy. We restate it here in plain terms because it is the first thing a legal reviewer needs to know about this platform.

Enterprise is contractually exempt. Enterprise workspaces are carved out by contract: their content is never added to a training corpus, never used to fine-tune a model, and never shared with a provider for training purposes. We never auto-enable training on an Enterprise workspace.

The Workspace Settings control is a real, revocable opt-out. Any workspace owner or admin can switch training capture off in Workspace Settings at any time, on any plan. When you do:

• Capture stops immediately — the next approval decision is not recorded.
• Your opt-out is recorded with a timestamp, and that timestamp is what our billing system checks. A renewal, an upgrade, a downgrade, or any other subscription event will not silently switch training back on. Only an explicit action by your workspace owner or admin can re-enable it.
• Nothing about your plan changes. Opting out does not affect your price, your monthly capacity, your seats, or any feature.

That second point is a deliberate commitment rather than a technicality. An opt-out that quietly reverts on the next invoice is not an opt-out; ours is enforced in code and covered by automated regression tests.

While training use is active, the following is captured per approval decision:

• The canon snapshot at time of approval (characters, locations, style rules, palette constraints)
• The generation packet that was sent to the provider
• The rendered output URL
• The approval or rejection decision, and the reviewer's user ID
• The visual continuity score (if run)

To request deletion of previously captured samples, email privacy@milkink.studio. We delete within 30 days and provide written confirmation. As stated in the Terms, content already incorporated into a trained model cannot practically be removed from that model’s weights; deletion removes it from our corpus and from every future training run.

The corpus is ours alone. We do not sell it, license it to third parties, or share it with a model provider for that provider’s own training. If your project needs a contractual training carve-out, that is what the Enterprise tier is for — sales@milkink.studio.

3. Provider licensing

Milk & Ink is a routing layer over third-party video models. When you generate a shot, your prompt and reference images are transmitted to the provider that model routes through. That provider performs the generation under its own terms.

Video and image model routes, and their terms at-a-glance:

• BytePlus (ByteDance) ModelArk — Seedance 2.x, the video model for every anime project, integrated directly rather than through a reseller. Anime renders go to BytePlus as the primary route; during a BytePlus outage the same Seedance model is reached automatically through fal.ai as a fallback route. Customer owns output under ByteDance’s commercial terms. See our subprocessor list.
• Runway AI, Inc. — Gen-4 Turbo and Gen-4.5, the video models for every photoreal project, integrated directly via Runway’s developer API. Customer owns output under Runway’s terms; Runway’s developer platform carries contractual commitments not to train on API customer data.
• fal.ai, Inc. — image-side model routing (Nano Banana 2, Flux LoRA training) and the Seedance fallback route above. Customer owns output; fal retains no license. Model weights are not accessible to Milk & Ink.
• ElevenLabs (voice, music, SFX) and Sync Labs (lipsync) — customer owns generated audio and the aligned output under each provider’s commercial terms.

The canonical, always-current list of every third party that processes customer data on our behalf — including infrastructure and storage, not just model providers — is our subprocessor list. We give at least 30 days’ notice before a new subprocessor begins processing customer data.

Where a provider offers enterprise terms with additional indemnification, Milk & Ink Enterprise customers can route their traffic through workspace-scoped API keys (BYOK) to receive those terms directly. Contact sales for setup.

4. Provenance & verification

Every release package you export includes a cryptographically-signed manifest (HMAC-SHA256) listing every shot, its approving user, the generation provider, and the timestamp of every decision.

Streaming platforms, broadcasters, or legal reviewers can verify a manifest at:

POST https://milkink.studio/api/provenance/verify

with the full signed envelope in the request body. The response states whether the manifest is authentic and unmodified. This endpoint is public and unauthenticated, so third parties don't need Milk & Ink accounts to audit.

The signing key is rotated quarterly. Historical keys are retained so manifests signed under prior keys remain verifiable indefinitely.

5. Human oversight & disclosure

Every shot that ships through the Milk & Ink release workflow has a named human approver recorded in the manifest. We recommend (but do not require) that customers disclose AI-assisted production to their distribution partners in accordance with emerging industry standards (SAG-AFTRA 2024 AI provisions, EU AI Act Article 52 transparency requirements, SOC 2 AI-transparency addendum).

6. Data residency

Content and canon data are stored in Supabase US-East-1 by default. Some providers return finished renders on short-lived URLs (BytePlus result URLs expire about 24 hours after a render completes; Runway output URLs within 24–48 hours), so we mirror generated video into Cloudflare R2 object storage to keep your results durable and your provenance manifests verifiable. Enterprise customers can request data residency in EU, Asia-Pacific, or on-premise — contact sales.

7. Indemnification

To be precise about what we do and do not offer: Section 9 of our Terms of Service is a customer indemnity running in our favor, and the self-serve plans (Spark, Creator, Series, Production, Studio) do not carry a platform indemnity from us for third-party IP claims arising from AI-generated output. Section 7 of the Terms also disclaims any warranty that outputs are free of third-party rights claims.

Indemnification for AI-generated content claims is negotiated in the Enterprise contract, alongside the training-data carve-out and BYOK. If your distribution partner requires an indemnity from the platform, that is an Enterprise conversation — sales@milkink.studio.

8. Contact

Questions for legal: legal@milkink.studio.
Privacy requests: privacy@milkink.studio.
Enterprise terms & indemnification: sales@milkink.studio.