Rights warning pattern in creator tutorials: celebrity likeness and third-party characters used as test subjects, sometimes via hosts with looser filters than the model maker's own app

Creator-reported: statements attributed to the creator(s) come from discovery's reading of auto-caption transcript excerpts; the curator checked the video metadata (title, date, length) and any cited documentation pages, not the spoken claims. Nothing was tested; promotional or sponsored framing applies where stated. Three of these tutorials use protected material as casual test content: a close-up portrait of a named actress that Google's own Gemini app refused but a third-party host produced ("because of the the restrictions you have inside of Google, I couldn't make that image") (R2); a Pokemon character composited into a scene (GPT Image 2 complied; Midjourney refused under community guidelines) (R1); and an alien adapted from a commercial animated series as a design reference (R4). Implications: (1) the same underlying model can have different safety filters on different hosts, so "it worked on platform X" is not permission; (2) right-of-publicity/likeness and character copyright apply regardless of tool - see Kling's customer-borne portrait-right terms (C3-B495-01), Higgsfield's likeness-consent representation (C3-B472-01) and the Disney v. Midjourney case (C3-B455-01); (3) curators should not reproduce these steps as advice. Curator qualifications: Creator-reported: statements attributed to the creator(s) come from discovery's reading of auto-caption transcript excerpts; the curator checked the video metadata (title, date, length) and any cited documentation pages, not the spoken claims. Nothing was tested; promotional or sponsored framing applies where stated. All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; video metadata checked where cited. Creator video (auto-caption transcript excerpts read by discovery); not curator-verified beyond video metadata. Limitations: Creator statements were read by discovery from auto-captions (ASR); not re-verified by the curator. Observational; whether outputs were published commercially is unknown; host names partly inferred from links (OpenArt). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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