AI for Good Film Festival: rights terms
On what the entrant keeps or grants, the rules of the AI for Good Film Festival say this: filmmakers keep copyright and grant ITU permission to use the film for festival promotion, with credit. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.
grant ITU permission to use their films for Festival-related promotion and activities, with credit to the filmmaker.
AI for Good Film Festival, ITU page
- RightsFilmmakers keep copyright and grant ITU permission to use the film for festival promotion, with credit
1Festivals with the same reading
AI Film Festival Japan, Bochnia International AI Film Festival, Higgsfield Global Film Festival and World AI Film Festival have this reading, “Entrant keeps copyright”: 5 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 “AI for Good Film Festival”, this is what SceneMixer publishes about the film its pipeline hands over:
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)
SceneMixer generates each character once as a full-body reference sheet — 9:16, plain background, directional key light, identity features written before any technical instruction — and then attaches crops of that sheet to every shot the character appears in.
SceneMixer, AI Character Sheet Generator (read 2026-10-13)