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The fine print on AI video in 2026: what the terms say

I spent a day reading six AI video licences on the vendors' own pages instead of trusting the model cards. One of them forbids commercial use of the output without written permission. One of them excludes the United States from its territory. And the watermark you can switch off is not the one that matters.

MiniMax H3: the Hailuo image-to-video model, in practice

H3 sits third on the image-to-video arena, generates its own stereo audio in the same pass, and turns a client photograph into five seconds of video for forty cents. It also ships open weights under a licence that excludes the United States by name. Both of those are true, and a studio has to hold both.

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