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08 Rights, consent and disclosure

Status: Practical guidance from the project, not legal advice. Laws differ by country; have a lawyer check your contracts and forms.

Character rights

  • Fan work (unpaid, non-commercial) of existing characters is common in cosplay, but it is still the rights holder's character.
  • Paid work should use characters the client owns or has licensed, or original characters. Don't sell an ad for brand A built on studio B's character.
  • Assets: don't redistribute game models, logos, music or voice lines in this repo or in sample projects. Use original or properly licensed assets. Pull requests with ripped assets will be closed.
  • Written consent for every performer: what will be filmed, where it will be posted, for how long, whether it can be used in paid ads, and how they are credited and paid.
  • Under 18: written consent from a parent or guardian, payment through the guardian, age-appropriate briefs only. Never contact minors privately through automated tools.
  • Performers can ask for removal; keep a simple way to do it.

Booth visitors

  • Clear signage before people step in: they are being filmed, what happens to the clip, how long it is kept.
  • Ask before posting anyone's clip publicly. Default: the visitor gets their clip, you keep nothing.
  • Delete raw booth footage after the event unless the visitor opted in. Data protection laws (for example Thailand's PDPA, the EU's GDPR) apply to faces and video.

Disclosure

  • Paid or sponsored posts are labelled as ads, following the platform's tools and local rules.
  • Label realistic AI-generated or AI-altered people or scenes where the platform requires it. TikTok and YouTube both have AI-content labelling policies.
  • A real performer with obvious VFX is normal edited content, but don't use AI to make a real person appear to say or do something they didn't.

Ownership of the output

  • Footage of a real performer and CG made by people can be owned and licensed in the usual way.
  • In the United States, the Copyright Office's January 2025 report concluded that material generated purely from prompts isn't protected by copyright. Keep the human-made parts (performance, set, edit) substantial if the client needs to own the result.