Runway Gen:48: rights terms

Runway Gen:48, what the entrant keeps or grants: entrants grant Runway a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to the film. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.

By entering the Challenge and submitting a Video Submission, you hereby grant to Sponsor and its successors and assigns a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable

Runway, Gen:48 official rules

• Ownership
  Entrants grant Runway a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to the filmRunway, Gen:48 official rules / recorded 2026-09-25

1Festivals with the same reading

No other festival on the register has this reading.

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 “Runway Gen:48”, 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 writes dialogue into the script analysis, assigns each line to a shot with a speaker and a short delivery note, and the video model performs it — picture and audio generated together, so the mouth forms that sentence in the language you chose.

SceneMixer, AI Dialogue Generator (read 2026-10-13)

4More on this rule

• Runway Gen:48, all eight rules
• What the entrant keeps or grants at every festival
• Runway AI Festival on rights terms
• Turkey International AI Film Festival on rights terms