Everything we deliver is rights-cleared and provenance-tracked. This page explains what that means in practice: which platform the work runs on, where the material comes from, who owns the result, and what we will not do at any price. The short version: we control the whole chain ourselves, we do not build on protected material, and we treat other people's work the way we would want ours treated.
The platform is ours, and that is the reason for everything else
Your work runs on the Forge, the production platform we built and operate ourselves. No aggregators, no resellers, nothing passing through other hands. That single fact is what makes the promises below checkable rather than decorative: because the pipeline is ours, we know which model produced which frame, on what material it was asked to work, and who touched it afterwards. A studio renting somebody else's stack can repeat these sentences, but it cannot verify them.
In commercial terms it means complete control of the intellectual property in what we hand over. There is no third party in the middle holding a licence over your campaign, and no clause buried in a supplier agreement that quietly limits where you are allowed to run it.
We do not use copyrighted material
Protected material does not go into the work. No copyrighted footage, no scraped stills from someone else's film, no character, logo or design belonging to another company used as raw material for a shot. When a reference is useful to explain an idea, it stays in the conversation and does not end up in the frame.
Every prompt and every asset that enters a production is logged and screened for infringement risk, and the whole trail stays open to review. If a shot does not pass, it does not ship: we make it again. This is slower than the alternative, and it is the part of the process a legal department actually asks about.
We respect the property of other artists
A style is not property, but a person's work is. We do not build a piece by copying a living artist's signature look on request, we do not use the name of an artist, performer or director as a shortcut to borrow their manner, and we do not reproduce another studio's work under a different label. Where a human performance is involved, we work with the person and with their agreement, voice included.
When we collaborate with artists they are credited and paid, and we ask for exactly the rights the job needs, in writing. It is the same standard we would want applied to us.
You own the finished work
You own what we deliver outright, with a clear chain of title, ready for broadcast and for paid media use. Delivery is not a licence to borrow something of ours: it is your film. The exact scope is set out in the Service Agreement signed before production starts, written to be read rather than survived.
Provenance anyone can verify
Every output carries verifiable Content Credentials under the C2PA standard, aligned with the transparency duties of the EU AI Act. Anyone downstream, a broadcaster, an agency, a platform, can inspect the file and see how it was made instead of taking our word for it. Disclosure is part of the craft here, not an admission about it.
What the models are not allowed to do
We contract with the model providers directly, so your assets are excluded from training by written agreement rather than by a setting somebody could switch off. Material you give us serves your production and nothing else: it is not pooled, not resold, and not used to make a shared model better at somebody else's brief.
Data and residency
European data residency by default, and your material is never used to train shared or third-party models. How this website handles personal data is a separate matter, set out in the Privacy policy, with the storage detail in the Cookie policy.
What we will not do
Some briefs we turn down, and it is better to say so before the first call than after the third. These are the lines:
- Pass off another artist's work, or a deliberate imitation of it, as original
- Use protected footage, images or characters as raw material for a shot
- Generate a real person's face or voice without that person's agreement
- Deliver synthetic material as documentary or news footage
- Take a brief whose point is to mislead an audience about who is speaking
Questions, and things we get wrong
If you are assessing us for a campaign and need this in the form your legal team expects, write to info@animastudios.ai and you will get specifics rather than reassurance. If you believe something we have published infringes your rights, write to the same address: tell us what and where, and we take it down while we check.