Hydras
Rights Matrix
Last verified 10 September 2026
What this page is. Producing an episode in Hydras means sending your material to third-party AI providers. This page names every one of them, and states — from their own published terms — whether they may use your content to train their models, and what rights they keep in what you generate. We publish it because you should not have to take our word for it, and because the answer is not the same for every provider.
Important — and please read this before relying on the tables
This page is a compilation, not a promise by us. The statements in the tables are summaries of, and extracts from, the published terms and legal documents of third-party AI providers. They are those providers' words and those providers' commitments — not commitments given by Hydras or by Warner Bros. International Television Production Finland Oy.
We compile this page in good faith and keep it current so far as we reasonably can. Providers change their terms, sometimes without notice, and a document may have changed since the date shown above.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we give no representation, warranty or undertaking that the information on this page is accurate, complete or current, and WBITVP Finland accepts no liability for any loss arising from reliance on it. This page is provided for information only. It is not legal advice, and it does not form part of your agreement with us.
It does not reduce our own obligations. What we commit to is set out in the Terms of Service and the Privacy Notice; nothing on this page varies or limits those documents, and where this page and they differ, they prevail.
Each provider's own document is linked in the Source column. Where anything here matters to a decision you are making, read the source and take your own advice. You remain responsible for your own compliance, and for the assurances you give your own clients.
Training
Do the providers use your content to train their models?
The question people actually mean is: could my unreleased production end up inside someone's model? Below is what each provider's terms permit, not what we hope they do.
| Provider | What it does in Hydras | Trains on your content | On what basis | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAIGPT-5.6, GPT Image 2 | Script and episode preparation, shotlists, storyboard frames | No | API content is "not used to train or improve OpenAI models (unless you explicitly opt in)". We have not opted in. | Read ↗ |
| GoogleGemini, Vertex AI | Shot and video prompts, character continuity, still images | No | Contractual: "Google will not use Customer Data to train or fine-tune any AI/ML models without Customer's prior permission or instruction." | Read ↗ |
| AnthropicClaude | In-product assistant | No | Contractual: "Anthropic may not train models on Customer Content from Services." | Read ↗ |
| Kling AIKling 3 | Video generation | No | Contractual: "We will not use … your data to train, retrain, or otherwise improve the Services or any other product." | Read ↗ |
| ElevenLabs | Voiceover and character dialogue | No | Training is switched off on our account, and their terms hold them to that setting for as long as it stands. | Read ↗ |
| Topaz Labs | Delivery upscaling | No | Stated publicly by Topaz: "We never train models using customer data or content." Their licence agreement does not repeat it. | Read ↗ |
| BytePlusSeedance — not enabled | Alternate video model, switched off | No | Training requires a separate opt-in agreement. We have never accepted it, and the model is not enabled for customer projects. | Read ↗ |
| fal.ai | Optional storyboard camera-angle re-render | No | "Company will not use Client Content to create, train, develop (directly or indirectly) Company's products or services." Their agreement also treats what you send as confidential information, and restricts them to our written instructions. | Read ↗ |
The short version. Every provider that generates your material is committed not to train on it. Most say so in a single clause; one reaches the same place through a purpose-limited licence and a data processing agreement, which the table explains rather than glosses over. Where a commitment rests on an account setting rather than a contract clause, the table says that too.
We choose providers on this basis. A model whose terms claim the right to train on what you send is not one we will use, however good its output. That has already cost us one storyboard model, and we would make the same call again.
Ownership
What rights do the providers keep in what you generate?
The second question is quieter but matters more at delivery: if a broadcaster asks who owns this footage, is there anyone else in the chain?
| Provider | Who owns the output | Royalty claimed | What they do keep | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | Yours | None | Their models. They go further than most: "we hereby assign to you all our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output." | Read ↗ |
| Yours | None | Their models. "Generated Output is owned by the user/customer, and Google does not assert any ownership rights." | Read ↗ | |
| Anthropic | Yours | None | Their models, with an express assignment of their interest in output to the customer. | Read ↗ |
| Kling AI | Yours | None | Their models. Commercial use of the output is expressly "not restricted". | Read ↗ |
| ElevenLabs | Yours | None | Their voice models. "You retain all rights in and to your Output." Commercial use requires a paid plan, which we hold. | Read ↗ |
| Topaz Labs | Yours | None | Their software and algorithms. Topaz "does not and will not … make any claim of copyright ownership … or assert any right to royalties" in your media. | Read ↗ |
| BytePlus | Yours | None | Their models. Output is treated as customer data. | Read ↗ |
| fal.ai | Yours | None | Their models. "Customer owns and retains all right, title, and interest in and to the Customer Input", and no claim is made over the output. | Read ↗ |
The chain of title is clean. As at the date above, not one provider we use retains ownership of, or claims a royalty in, what you generate. Three go further and formally assign their interest to you. Nobody stands between you and your footage. Our own position — that we claim nothing in your output — is a commitment in the Terms of Service. What the providers claim is reported here from their documents, not promised by us.
Limits
What these tables do not settle
Whether AI output attracts copyright at all is a question of law, not of these contracts. Every provider above declines to claim your output; none of them can tell you whether a given frame is protectable in a given country. That assessment is yours to make. Section 7 of the Terms of Service sets out what we do and do not warrant.
"Not training on your content" is not "no data at all". Providers generally reserve the right to use anonymised, aggregated statistics about how their service is used — including figures derived from traffic — to develop their products. That is standard across the industry and is a different thing from your scripts, prompts and frames entering a training set, which is what the table above is about.
Not training is not the same as not keeping. Providers hold material for their own limited periods, mostly to detect abuse, and several reserve the right to review input and output for safety — which can mean a person looks at it. Section 5 of the Privacy Notice covers what reaches them and what does not, and our sub-processor list gives the period for each provider where we know it.
Where the material is processed is a separate question. Several of these providers operate outside the European Economic Area. Section 7 of the Privacy Notice deals with transfers.
Upkeep
How this page is kept honest
Verified Every statement above was read from the provider's own published terms on 10 September 2026, and each is recorded against the clause it came from.
Every claim links to its source. The Source column points at the provider's own published document — go and read the clause yourself rather than taking our summary of it. We also keep dated copies of each one, so we can show you the version we relied on even if the provider changes the page.
Providers change their terms, and we change providers. We re-check each provider's terms at least every six months, and whenever a provider announces a change. When an answer in these tables changes, this page changes with it and the date above moves.
If a provider's position changes in a way that affects you, we will either change provider or tell you. That one is a commitment, and it lives in Section 5 of the Terms of Service rather than on this page — which is the difference between what we promise and what we merely report.
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