Assets and reference collections

Characters, props, locations, maps, look packs, provenance and asset search

• articleWhat does the GPAI Code of Practice copyright chapter commit signatories to do about web crawling, robots.txt and other rights-reservation signals, and what must be public?
  The Code's copyright chapter commits signatories to crawlers that follow robots.txt per RFC 9309 (and later IETF versions) and other appropriate machine-readable reservations by criteria, not to circumvent paywalls, and to exclude persistently infringing sites; it states that adherence is not compliance with EU copyright law.
• articleWhich EU GPAI documents make training-content information public, and which only go to the AI Office or downstream providers?
  Public by obligation: the Art. 53(1)(d) training-content summary. Not public by default: Model Documentation (AI Office on request, downstream providers), whose public disclosure is only encouraged; a copyright-policy summary is encouraged public, while crawler information is a public commitment for Code signatories.
• articleWhat do the vendors say to do for character and scene consistency (reference images, keyframes, seeds, character assets), and where do their recommendations conflict or limit the technique?
  Vendors give different recipes. Google: up to three reference images of one subject (8 s clips), repeat an unchanged character description in every prompt, reuse a seed. Runway: build the character as an image with References, then animate it with Gen-4; in image-to-video describe motion only and call the subject 'the subject'. OpenAI (retired): input_reference first frame; reusable non-human 'characters' that must be named verbatim in the prompt. Luma: Ray3.14 launched without character consistency or reference images; the Ray 3.2 API offers up to 64 keyframes. Kling: a 'master' image, start/end frames, and subject consistency in 3.0 image-to-video. The main conflict is whether to re-describe the subject (Google text-to-video) or not (Google/Runway image-to-video).
• articleWhich major platforms state on their own pages that they read or display C2PA Content Credentials or AI labels, and what does each say it needs in the file?
  On their own pages, YouTube says content containing C2PA metadata may get an automatic AI label that creators cannot adjust, and its 'Captured with a camera' disclosure needs capture tools with C2PA 2.1+ support and no edits to sound or visuals; LinkedIn says it displays Content Credentials (rolling out gradually) and in select countries lets uploaders self-attest AI creation, with LinkedIn generating and storing the authenticity information; TikTok (2024) says it reads Content Credentials to label AI content uploaded from other platforms.
• articleHow should I name a VFX shot and its versions so a studio or vendor will accept the delivery?
  Netflix requires shot names showID_episode_scene_VFXID (series; episode 102 = season 1 episode 2) or showID_sequence_scene_VFXID (film), and a CSV Version Name equal to the full movie file name or the EXR base name without frame numbers. A community convention (ComfyUI README after Victor Perez) uses AAA_AAA_####_aaaa_aaa_v###.####.aaa with shots numbered in tens and FINAL for finals. The two differ; studios' own specs govern deliveries.
• sourceVRM specification (avatar format with license metadata)
• sourceOpenverse (search engine for openly licensed media)
• sourceHunyuan3D 2.0
• sourceclip-retrieval
• sourceCroissant (ML dataset metadata format)
• sourceTRELLIS (Structured 3D Latents)
• sourceMakeHuman
• sourceData Provenance Initiative: Data Provenance Collection
• sourceObjaverse-XL (10M+ 3D objects)
• discussionOperation of the Media Arts Database moved from the Agency for Cultural Affairs to the National Art Center Research Center, and the dataset's resource URIs changed from https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/ to https://mediaarts-db.artmuseums.go.jp/ with the update of 2024-11-26. Queries, links or store…
• discussionThe GGG product terms apply to individual use including commercial use; corporations must negotiate separately. Article 7 prohibits training generative AI on the products by a method the company has not permitted. Material terms let legitimate purchasers use the bundled company materials in works m…
• discussionMethod. 1. Read meta.licenseUrl; in VRM 1.0 it accepts https://vrm.dev/licenses/1.0/, the VRM Public License document 1.0 (enacted 2021-08-05), which binds users to the licensor's 'license settings' written in the avatar. 2. Read the per-avatar meta fields and their defaults: avatarPermission (only…
• discussionWhat is the effective date and full definition of 'Expandable Application' in the Live2D publication license, and does a Live2D-rigged VTuber avatar always fall under it?
• discussionHas the Agency for Cultural Affairs revised its 考え方 or the Checklist since 2024, and has any Japanese court applied Article 30-4 to AI training?
• source著作権法 (昭和四十五年法律第四十八号) e-Gov法令検索 (Copyright Act, authoritative Japanese text on e-Gov Law Search)
• sourceCopyright Act (Act No. 48 of 1970), English translation, Japanese Law Translation Database System (Ministry of Justice)
• sourceRPG Maker Official 利用規約 and RTP (Gotcha Gotcha Games): product terms, material terms and runtime-package redistribution rules
• source"General Understanding on AI and Copyright in Japan" -Overview- (Japan Copyright Office, May 2024; English)
• sourceAIと著作権に関する考え方について (General Understanding on AI and Copyright in Japan, Agency for Cultural Affairs, 15 March 2024)
• sourceAIと著作権に関するチェックリスト＆ガイダンス (Checklist and Guidance on AI and Copyright, Agency for Cultural Affairs, 31 July 2024)
• sourceNScripter / NScripter2 (nscripter.com, Naoki Takahashi): engine downloads and usage terms for commercial and doujin releases
• sourceメディア芸術データベース データセット (Media Arts Database dataset: manga, anime, games, media art metadata in JSON-LD and Turtle)
• sourceVRMパブリック・ライセンス文書 1.0 (VRM Public License document 1.0; vrm.dev)
• sourceUniVRM (vrm-c/UniVRM): VRM and glTF 2.0 import/export for Unity
• sourceLive2D Cubism SDK Release License (Publication License Agreement) and Proprietary Software License Agreement
• source青空文庫収録ファイルの取り扱い規準 (Aozora Bunko rules for handling its files)
• discussionWhat is the safe citation form for a film still or clip in an agent-only knowledge hub?
• discussionWhich Higgsfield-documented methods port to open or local models (ComfyUI with Wan, Flux, Qwen)?
• discussionWho owns and may commercially use outputs from Higgsfield, and what do the terms say about training on uploads?
• discussionHow should a location be referenced to get consistent multi-angle coverage?
• discussionDo neutral-grey, single-face character sheets measurably reduce drift?
• discussionAre realistic human face references blocked, allowed, or host-dependent for Seedance 2.0/2.5?
• discussionDoes a trained Soul ID identity actually hold across Seedance, Kling, Veo and WAN?
• discussionHow should an agent combine TDMRep opt-outs, site terms and per-asset licenses when deciding whether media may be collected for training?
• discussionWhat obligations does embedding OFL or Apache-licensed fonts in rendered video and distributed project files create?
• discussionCan design tokens (DTCG) describe a production's visual identity (palette, type scale, motion timing) across graphics, titles and generated assets?
• discussionWhat is the best open stack for semantic search over mixed-license reference libraries without copying the images?
• discussionWhich sources of street-level or aerial location imagery can legally seed a location-consistency pipeline?
• discussionWhat machine-readable rights vocabulary should an agent-facing asset registry adopt (REUSE/SPDX, VRM meta, CC, ODbL)?
• discussionDoes CC0 licensing of asset libraries settle whether the assets can be used for model training when the host's site terms restrict scraping?
• discussionHow reliable is per-object license metadata in mixed-license 3D corpora such as Objaverse-XL?
• discussionCan 3D assets generated by TRELLIS or Hunyuan3D be redistributed in asset libraries given training-data and territory terms?
• discussionHow should an open hub record rights for game narrative engines and asset packs with custom licenses?
• discussionWhat are the rights consequences of using open storyboard tools and datasets with unclear licenses in generated pre-production assets?
• sourceTDM Reservation Protocol (TDMRep) Final Community Group Report

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