African AI Film Festival: rights terms
The rules of the African AI Film Festival on what the entrant keeps or grants: entrants must own or have secured all rights, including outside assets, music and likenesses. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.
The entrant must own or have secured all rights to the work, including third-party assets, music, and likenesses.
African AI Film Festival, home page
- EligibilityEntrants must own or have secured all rights, including outside assets, music and likenesses
1Festivals with the same reading
AI Cinema Festival NYC, AI Shortest Film Competition, Chroma Awards, Runway AI Festival and Turkey International AI Film Festival have this reading, “Entrant warrants all rights”: 6 festivals in all.
Rules change between editions; check the organiser's page before entering.
2What the rule means for an entrant
AI raises two rights questions at once: whether the entrant can use every face, voice, song and image in the film, and what the organiser may do with the film afterwards. The licence terms deserve a full read before entering.
| Festival | Reading |
|---|---|
| 1 Billion AI Film Award | None in the rules read |
| Academy Awards | None in the rules read |
| African AI Film Festival | Entrant warrants all rights |
| AI Cinema Festival NYC | Entrant warrants all rights |
| AI Film Festival Japan | Entrant keeps copyright |
| AI for Good Film Festival | Entrant keeps copyright |
| AI International Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| AI Shortest Film Competition | Entrant warrants all rights |
| Artefact AI Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| Astana AI Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| Bochnia International AI Film Festival | Entrant keeps copyright |
| Chroma Awards | Entrant warrants all rights |
| Cinema Shift Festival | None in the rules read |
| Higgsfield Global Film Festival | Entrant keeps copyright |
| Human vs. AI Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| K-Culture AI International Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| LifeArt AI Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| Project Odyssey | Advice on original material |
| Reply AI Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| Runway AI Festival | Entrant warrants all rights |
| Runway Gen:48 | A licence granted to the organiser |
| Sundance Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| Turkey International AI Film Festival | Entrant warrants all rights |
| World AI Film Festival | Entrant keeps copyright |
| World AI Film Festival USA | Rights cleared, consent documented |
Inclusion rule. Every festival on the register, with or without a detailed page on this rule. Order. Alphabetical by festival name.
3The making side of an entry
For an entrant reading “African AI Film Festival”, this is what SceneMixer publishes about the film its pipeline hands over:
Downloads and the asset library follow your Music switch; a shared link always plays the version with the episode’s music.
SceneMixer, Background Music in an AI Short Drama: The Built-in Score — “Does the music carry into downloads, the library and shared links?” (read 2026-10-13)
Every new video carries the SceneMixer AIGC badge in its bottom-right corner unless you turn it off.
SceneMixer, The AI Badge Switch (read 2026-10-13)