AI Cinema Festival NYC: rights terms

The rules of the AI Cinema Festival NYC on what the entrant keeps or grants: rights to likeness, music, voice and datasets rest with the submitter. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.

Rights, likeness, music, voice and dataset permissions remain the responsibility of the submitter.

AI Cinema Festival NYC, rules and eligibility

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  Rights to likeness, music, voice and datasets rest with the submitterAI Cinema Festival NYC, rules and eligibility / recorded 2026-09-25

1Festivals with the same reading

African AI Film Festival, 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.

It reflects the rules published for the latest edition on the reading day.

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.

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 Cinema Festival NYC”, 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)

Every ad gets its own music, written for that ad.

SceneMixer, Where the Music in an Ad Video Comes From (read 2026-10-13)

4More on this rule

• AI Cinema Festival NYC, all eight rules
• What the entrant keeps or grants at every festival
• African AI Film Festival on rights terms
• AI Film Festival Japan on rights terms