AI Film Festival Japan: rights terms

AI Film Festival Japan, what the entrant keeps or grants: rights stay with the entrant, who licenses screening and promotion to the committee. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.

Intellectual property rights to the submitted works generally remain with the applicants.

AI Film Festival Japan, English site

applicants grant the AIFJ Executive Committee a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to use the works for screenings and promotional purposes

AI Film Festival Japan, English site

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  Rights stay with the entrant, who licenses screening and promotion to the committeeAI Film Festival Japan, English site / recorded 2026-09-25
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  The committee receives a perpetual, royalty-free licence for screenings and promotionAI Film Festival Japan, English site / recorded 2026-09-25

1Festivals with the same reading

AI for Good Film Festival, 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.

Inclusion rule. Every festival on the register, with or without a detailed page on this rule. Order. Alphabetical by festival name.

3What a generator hands an entrant

For an entrant reading “AI Film Festival Japan”, 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)

Recommended is the badge on the tier the site suggests for most character sheets; the default for new accounts stays the cheaper tier.

SceneMixer, Qwen-Image 3.0 Pro: the recommended tier — “Is Recommended the same as default?” (read 2026-10-13)

4More on this rule

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