Open Works License 1.0 — Permissive, No Likeness

Summary (not part of the license)

This summary is provided for convenience only. It is not legal advice, it is not part of the license, and the operative text is Articles 1 to 12 below. Where the summary and the operative text differ, the operative text controls.

• Same as the permissive license: use the released assets, prompts, inputs, parameters, workflows and outputs for any purpose, commercial use included.
• One exception: the assets listed in the Schedule of Excluded Assets, and the character likeness they embody, are not licensed. You may not use them, reconstruct them, approximate them or publish anything depicting them, by any means.
• You may still continue the story, refer to the excluded character by name and role, and cast a visually different character of your own in that role.
• All generation must happen on the Higgsfield Platform. The materials must not be fed into other generative tools.
• Audio, music and anything the Platform does not offer may be produced anywhere, provided the materials themselves are not used as inputs there.
• Credit the Work and the Creator, keep the notices intact, and say if you modified the materials.
• Publishing something you made from the materials lets the Creator and Higgsfield feature it in showcases and promotion.
• Nobody warrants that all rights in the materials are cleared. Your clearance is your responsibility, and the bar is higher for commercial use.

About this license

This is a license template published by Higgsfield Inc. for creators who choose to release a work as an Open Work. Higgsfield is not the licensor. The license is granted by the Creator identified in the Notice, directly to You. Higgsfield hosts the Work, provides the Platform, and is a third-party beneficiary of the Articles identified in Article 11.

This license is intended to be applied to a whole release: the finished work and the production materials behind it, in the same way that source code is released with a LICENSE file. It is designed to be used unmodified. Do not edit the operative text. If different terms are required, use a different license in the family or a separate written agreement.

1. Definitions

1.1 "Creator" means the person or entity that releases a Work under this license and is identified as such in the Notice. "Creator" includes each co-creator where a Work is released jointly.

1.2 "You" means the person or entity exercising the rights granted by this license. "Your" has a corresponding meaning.

1.3 "Work" means the film, sequence, image set or other creative work identified in the Notice and released as an Open Work.

1.4 "Materials" means the elements of the Work that the Creator releases under this license, as listed in or made available with the Notice, including image and video assets, characters, character sheets and reference images, environments, props, style references, prompts and prompt chains, negative prompts, parameters, seeds, model and preset selections, workflows and node graphs, intermediate generations, final outputs, and accompanying documentation. Materials do not include Excluded Assets.

1.5 "Excluded Assets" means any element identified as excluded in the Notice or in a schedule referenced by the Notice. Excluded Assets are not licensed under this license, and no right in them is granted, expressly or by implication.

1.6 "Platform" means the Higgsfield service, including the website at higgsfield.ai, its applications, API, MCP, CLI and agent interfaces, and any successor service.

1.7 "Higgsfield" means Higgsfield Inc. and its affiliates.

1.8 "Platform Terms" means Higgsfield's Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and the content, safety and community rules published on the Platform, in each case as in force at the relevant time.

1.9 "Restricted Generation" means generating any image, video or other visual output that uses the Materials, in whole or in part, as an input, reference, prompt, style source, character reference, parameter set, workflow or conditioning signal.

1.10 "Your Work" means any output, generation, edit, remix, adaptation, translation, film, sequence, still image, prompt or other material that You create using the Materials in whole or in part.

1.11 "Commercial Use" means any use directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation, including sale, licensing, paid distribution, advertising, sponsored or branded content, client or agency work, subscription or ad-supported monetisation, merchandising, and use in the promotion of any product or service. Revenue-sharing or monetisation applied automatically by a social platform to an otherwise non-commercial post is not Commercial Use, provided You do not solicit or receive separate payment for Your Work.

1.12 "Universe Development" means creating new narrative material set in, continuing, expanding or reinterpreting the characters, world, story, timeline or visual language of the Work, including sequels, prequels, side stories, alternative versions, fan fiction, fan films and community continuations.

1.13 "Publish" means to make available to the public or to any third party, by any means and in any medium.

1.14 "Notice" means the license notice published with the Work, which identifies the Creator, the Work, the license identifier, any Excluded Assets and any rights notes. The Notice as published with the Work controls those matters.

1.15 "Third-Party Material" means any element of the Materials, or anything depicted, embodied, embedded or referenced in them, in which any person other than the Creator holds or may hold rights, including trademarks, logos, trade dress, product and vehicle designs, brands, artworks, photographs, footage, music, sound recordings, typefaces, buildings, interiors, locations, and the name, image, voice, likeness or other personality rights of any real person.

2. Grant of License

2.1 Subject to Articles 3, 4 and 5, and to the exclusion in Article 2.4, the Creator grants You a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, non-transferable licence, exercisable solely in connection with the creation of content on the Platform, to:

(a) access, view, download, inspect, analyse and study the Materials;

(b) use the Materials, in whole or in part, as assets, inputs, references, prompts, parameters, seeds, workflows or conditioning signals for Restricted Generation performed on the Platform;

(c) reproduce, modify, adapt, remix, edit, translate and create derivative works of the Materials, including Universe Development, in each case by Restricted Generation performed on the Platform or as permitted by Article 3.3 or 3.4;

(d) Publish, distribute, perform, display and exploit Your Work by any means and in any medium, including outside the Platform; and

(e) do each of the above for any purpose, including Commercial Use.

2.2 No field-of-use restriction. Subject to Articles 2.3 and 2.4, there is no restriction on the field of use, and no separate commercial licence is required.

2.3 Scope of the grant. The licence in Article 2.1 does not extend to, and no licence is granted for, any of the following, each of which is outside the scope of this license and unauthorised:

(a) use of the Materials as an asset, input, reference, prompt, style source or conditioning signal in or with any generative model, tool, product, service or platform other than the Platform;

(b) use of the Materials in any project, production or workflow that does not involve Restricted Generation performed on the Platform, including use of the Materials as standalone stock, design, editorial, print, packaging or set-dressing material; or

(c) any other use of the Materials unrelated to the creation of content on the Platform.

Article 3.2 applies to the same subject matter as an independent condition.

2.4 Excluded Assets: likeness exclusion. Each element listed in the Schedule of Excluded Assets in the Notice, and the likeness embodied in it, is excluded from this grant. Where the Schedule designates a character, person or likeness, that designation covers the face, head, body, voice and other individually identifying attributes of that character or person, in any Material. You will not:

(a) use any Excluded Asset, or any Material that embodies an excluded likeness, as an input, reference, prompt, style source, character reference or conditioning signal for any generation;

(b) reproduce, modify, adapt or create derivative works of an Excluded Asset or an excluded likeness;

(c) generate, reconstruct, approximate or depict an excluded likeness, or anything substantially similar to it, by any means, including textual description, character reference taken from released frames, or the combination of other Materials; or

(d) Publish anything that contains or depicts an Excluded Asset or an excluded likeness.

2.5 What remains licensed. All Materials other than the Excluded Assets, including environments, props, style references, non-excluded characters, prompts, parameters, workflows and outputs that do not embody an excluded likeness, are licensed on the terms of Article 2.1. You may continue the story of the Work, including by referring to an excluded character by name and by narrative role, and may introduce a visually different character of Your own creation in that role, provided no excluded likeness is depicted or approximated.

2.6 Mixed Materials. Where a Material embodies an excluded likeness together with licensed elements, You may use the licensed elements only if the excluded likeness is fully removed or replaced and is not depicted in, or recoverable from, Your Work.

2.7 Material breach. Breach of Article 2.4 is a material breach. Reinstatement under Article 7.3 is not available where You have Published anything depicting an excluded likeness.

2.8 Completeness of the Schedule. The Schedule of Excluded Assets is completed by the Creator. Article 5.5 applies: the Schedule may be incomplete, and its incompleteness does not create a licence in anything the Creator has not licensed.

3. Conditions

Every right granted in Article 2 is conditioned on Your compliance with this Article.

3.1 Attribution and notice retention. Where You Publish Your Work, or Publish any excerpt of the Materials permitted by this license, You will:

(a) credit the Work and the Creator in a manner reasonable to the medium, in substantially the form: "<Work title> by <Creator>, licensed under OWL-P-NL-1.0";

(b) state the license identifier and, where the medium allows a link, link to the Work's page or to the full license text;

(c) indicate that You modified the Materials, where You did; and

(d) retain, and not remove or alter, the Notice, copyright notices, license text and attribution information in any copy of the Materials that You hold or transfer.

Attribution may be given in credits, a description, a caption, an accompanying file or an equivalent placement customary for the medium. Attribution must not be given in a way that suggests the Creator endorses You or Your Work.

3.2 On-Platform generation. Any Restricted Generation permitted by Article 2 must be performed on the Platform. The Materials must not be submitted to, or used as an input, reference, prompt, style source, character reference or conditioning signal for, any generative model, tool, product or service other than those offered through the Platform.

3.3 Permitted external work. The following are permitted outside the Platform, using any tool or service, provided that no Material is used as an input to, or as a reference or conditioning signal for, that tool or service:

(a) the creation and production of audio elements, including music, score, songs, sound design, foley, voice, narration, dialogue and audio in any language, whether recorded, composed or generated, the Platform offering no audio or music tools;

(b) the creation of elements that the Platform does not offer at the relevant time, including where applicable 3D, motion graphics, titles, subtitles, captions, still design and illustration; and

(c) the creation of Your own original material that is independent of the Materials.

Where the Platform later offers a capability referred to in paragraph (b), You may continue to use external means for that element, provided Article 3.2 is complied with.

3.4 Permitted technical processing. Editing, assembly, conforming, colour work, grading, retouching for continuity, stabilisation, denoising, upscaling, frame interpolation, retiming, compositing, format and codec conversion, mastering and audio mixing are permitted outside the Platform, whether or not the tool used is machine-learning based, in respect of output generated under Article 3.2 and, where reasonably necessary to prepare them for use, in respect of the Materials. This Article does not permit the creation of new characters, subjects, environments or imagery that are not present in that output, and any such creation is Restricted Generation.

3.5 Publication and exploitation are not restricted to the Platform. Subject to the scope of the grant in Article 2, Your Work may be finished, Published, distributed, broadcast and, where Article 2 permits it, monetised outside the Platform. Your rights in Your Work are not conditioned on Your continued use of the Platform or on the subsistence of any Higgsfield account.

3.6 Lawful and permitted use. You will comply with all applicable law and, where You use the Platform, with the Platform Terms. You will not use the Materials to create, and Your Work will not contain, material that:

(a) depicts a real, identifiable person in a false or misleading manner, or constitutes a digital replica, face swap or voice clone of a real person, without that person's documented consent and any consent required by applicable law;

(b) is presented as a genuine record of events that did not occur, or is otherwise reasonably likely to deceive as to authenticity, origin, endorsement or affiliation;

(c) is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, or sexualises minors;

(d) infringes the intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights of any person; or

(e) is used for political advertising, electoral manipulation, fraud, or the impersonation of any person, brand or public authority.

3.7 Provenance. You will not remove, obscure or falsify watermarks, content credentials, provenance metadata or license notices attached to the Materials or to output generated from them.

3.8 No repackaging. You will not Publish, redistribute, resell or make available the Materials as a standalone or repackaged asset pack, prompt pack, dataset, model, preset or library, whether or not for charge. Incorporating the Materials into Your Work, and quoting individual Materials for study, teaching, review or critique, are permitted where Article 2 grants those rights.

3.9 No sublicensing and no additional restrictions. The rights granted may not be sublicensed. You may permit Your employees and contractors to exercise the rights on Your behalf and remain responsible for their compliance. You will not offer or impose any term on, or apply any technological measure to, the Materials that restricts the exercise of the rights granted by this license to any other person.

3.10 Excluded Assets. You will not use, reproduce, adapt, reconstruct, approximate or Publish any Excluded Asset, or anything substantially similar to an Excluded Asset, by any means.

4. Showcase Licence

4.1 The Materials are made available at no charge. In consideration of that, Your use of any Material is conditioned on the licence in this Article.

4.2 By using any Material to create Your Work and Publishing Your Work, You grant each of the Creator and Higgsfield a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to reproduce, host, distribute, display, perform, excerpt, caption, subtitle, reformat, resize and translate Your Work as Published, and to make technical edits that do not alter its meaning, for the purpose of demonstrating, documenting and promoting the Work, the Open Works programme, the Platform and the creative community, including in showcases, galleries, reels, case studies, editorial and social channels, and in paid promotion of the Platform.

4.3 This licence covers Your Work as Published. It does not extend to Your other works, and it does not permit the Creator or Higgsfield to state or imply that You endorse any product.

4.4 You represent that You hold all rights and consents necessary to grant the licence in Article 4.2, including in respect of any third-party material, performer or identifiable person appearing in Your Work.

4.5 You will be credited where reasonably practicable, using the name or handle under which You Published Your Work.

4.6 The licence in Article 4.2 survives termination of this license in respect of Your Work Published before termination. You may request that the Creator or Higgsfield cease new promotional uses of an identified Work of Yours; new uses will stop within 30 days of the request, while materials already distributed or placed with third parties may remain in circulation.

5. Reserved Rights, Third-Party Material and Clearance

IMPORTANT — RIGHTS AND CLEARANCE NOTICE. NEITHER THE CREATOR NOR HIGGSFIELD REPRESENTS OR WARRANTS THAT ALL RIGHTS IN THE MATERIALS ARE OWNED OR CONTROLLED BY THE CREATOR. THE MATERIALS MAY DEPICT OR INCORPORATE THIRD-PARTY MATERIAL, INCLUDING BRANDS, TRADEMARKS, PRODUCTS, VEHICLES, ARTWORKS, ARCHITECTURE, LOCATIONS AND REAL PERSONS. THIS LICENSE GRANTS ONLY THE RIGHTS THE CREATOR ACTUALLY HOLDS. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN CLEARANCE, AT A LEVEL APPROPRIATE TO YOUR INTENDED USE.

5.1 Reservation. The Creator retains all right, title and interest in and to the Work and the Materials. No right is granted except as expressly stated in Article 2. This license does not transfer ownership of anything.

5.2 What You own. Subject to Article 4, You own the elements You independently create in Your Work. That ownership does not extend to the Materials.

5.3 No representation of ownership. The Creator makes no representation, warranty or covenant that it owns or controls all rights in the Materials, that the Materials are free of Third-Party Material, or that the Materials have been cleared for any use. The grant in Article 2 is limited to the rights the Creator itself holds and does not purport to grant, and cannot grant, any right in Third-Party Material.

5.4 Your clearance obligation. You are solely responsible for determining what rights Your intended use requires and for obtaining, at Your own cost, every clearance, consent, release, licence, permission and insurance that Your intended use requires under applicable law. You will apply a level of diligence appropriate to that use, and You acknowledge that the standard applicable to advertising, brand, client, broadcast or other commercial use is materially higher than that applicable to personal, educational or non-commercial use. Independent legal advice is recommended before any commercial use.

5.5 Rights notes are informational. Where the Notice identifies Third-Party Material, an Excluded Asset or a rights restriction, that information is provided for convenience, may be incomplete, and does not limit Article 5.3 or 5.4. The absence of such information is not a representation that the Materials contain no Third-Party Material.

5.6 Allocation of responsibility for the released Work. As between the Creator and Higgsfield, the Creator is solely responsible for the Work it releases, including for holding the rights necessary to release it, for obtaining every consent and clearance required for that release, and for responding to any claim relating to the Work or the Materials. Higgsfield does not review, verify, clear or approve the Materials, is not a licensor, and is not responsible for the Creator's compliance or for Yours.

6. Trademarks and Endorsement

6.1 No trademark, service mark or trade name licence is granted. The Creator's name and marks, the title of the Work, and the Higgsfield name, logos and product names may be used only for factual and descriptive reference, including the attribution required by Article 3.1.

6.2 You will not state or imply that the Creator or Higgsfield sponsors, endorses, certifies or is affiliated with You or Your Work, and will not use the Materials in a manner that misrepresents the scope of this license.

6.3 No patent, moral-rights, personality or third-party-content licence is granted beyond what Article 2 expressly states.

7. Term, Termination and Reinstatement

7.1 This license takes effect when You first access or use the Materials and continues until terminated.

7.2 This license terminates automatically, without notice, if You fail to comply with any of its terms.

7.3 Where the failure is curable and is Your first failure in respect of the Work, this license is reinstated as of the date the failure is cured, provided it is cured within 30 days of Your becoming aware of it or of notification by the Creator or Higgsfield. The Creator may also reinstate this license expressly.

7.4 Effect on copies already obtained. The Creator may stop distributing the Work, remove it from the Platform, or release future distributions under different terms at any time. That does not terminate the rights of any person who obtained the Materials under this license before then, except that the Creator or Higgsfield may require You to cease use of, and delete, an identified Material where necessary to comply with law, a court order, a third-party rights claim or a withdrawal of consent by an identifiable person. You will comply within 30 days of notice, and may continue to distribute Your Work already Published unless the notice states otherwise.

7.5 On termination, You will cease all use of the Materials and delete all copies within Your control. Articles 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 survive termination.

8. Disclaimer of Warranty

8.1 THE WORK AND THE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY OF TITLE, PROVENANCE, CHAIN OF TITLE, CLEARANCE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY OR QUIET ENJOYMENT. THIS DISCLAIMER IS GIVEN BY THE CREATOR AND BY HIGGSFIELD.

8.2 Neither the Creator nor Higgsfield warrants that the Materials are cleared for any use, that generation from them will produce any particular result, or that output generated from them will be unique. Similar or identical output may be produced independently by other users, and no right is granted or reserved in respect of such independent output.

8.3 Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties. To the extent an exclusion in this Article is unenforceable, it applies to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

9. Limitation of Liability

9.1 TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER THE CREATOR NOR HIGGSFIELD WILL BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, DATA OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS LICENSE, THE MATERIALS OR YOUR WORK, HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

9.2 THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE CREATOR, AND SEPARATELY OF HIGGSFIELD, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS LICENSE WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS (USD 100).

9.3 Nothing in this license excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

10. Indemnity

You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Creator and Higgsfield, and their respective officers, employees, contributors and agents, from and against any claim, demand, proceeding, loss, liability, damage, cost and expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in connection with (a) Your use of the Materials, (b) Your Work, or (c) Your breach of this license, including Articles 3, 4.4, 5.4 and 6.

11. Higgsfield's Role

11.1 Higgsfield is not a party to this license and grants no rights under it. Higgsfield publishes this license as a template, hosts the Work, and provides the Platform.

11.2 Higgsfield is an express third-party beneficiary of Articles 3.2, 3.3, 3.6, 3.7, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10, and may enforce them directly against You.

11.3 Your use of the Platform is governed by the Platform Terms, which are a separate agreement between You and Higgsfield. Anything not addressed by this license is governed by the Platform Terms. In the event of a conflict between this license and the Platform Terms in respect of Your use of the Platform, the Platform Terms prevail as between You and Higgsfield, and this license continues to govern Your rights in the Materials as between You and the Creator.

11.4 Higgsfield may remove a Work from the Platform, suspend or terminate an account, or decline to distribute Materials, in accordance with the Platform Terms. Higgsfield does not undertake to police compliance with this license, and enforcement of the Creator's rights is a matter for the Creator.

12. General

12.1 Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable or, failing that, severed, and the remaining provisions remain in effect.

12.2 No waiver. A failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it. No waiver is effective unless in writing.

12.3 No agency. Nothing in this license creates a partnership, joint venture, agency or employment relationship, and no obligation to publish, promote, maintain or continue the Work is created.

12.4 Entire terms. This license, together with the Notice, is the entire agreement between the Creator and You in respect of the Materials and supersedes any prior understanding relating to them. A separate written agreement signed by the Creator prevails over this license to the extent of any conflict.

12.5 Versions. Higgsfield may publish later versions of this license family. Your rights in Materials already obtained continue under the version identified in the Notice. Where the Notice states "or any later version", You may at Your option comply instead with any later version of this license published by Higgsfield.

12.6 Interpretation. Headings are for convenience only. No rule of construction requiring interpretation against the drafting party applies to this license, which is a standard-form template drafted for general use. "Including" means "including without limitation".

12.7 Language. The English text of this license is the controlling text. Translations are provided for convenience only.

12.8 No choice of law. This license makes no choice of governing law or forum. Applicable law determines those questions, and the Creator and You may agree otherwise in a separate written agreement. The Platform Terms govern law and forum as between You and Higgsfield.

How to apply this license

Publish the following Notice with the Work, and include it as a file named LICENSE in any release package. Fields in angle brackets are completed by the Creator.

Suggested release layout

Attribution string to reuse

Schedule of Excluded Assets

The Creator completes this Schedule when releasing the Work and publishes it as part of the Notice and as a file named EXCLUSIONS.md in the release package. At least one entry is required; a release under this license with an empty Schedule is treated as a release under OWL-P-1.0.

Guidance for the Creator, not part of the license

An exclusion is only as strong as its list. Identify the excluded likeness by name and list every asset file that embodies it, including reference images, character sheets, LoRA-style references, turnarounds and any prompt that reproduces it. Where the released cut itself shows the excluded likeness, say so in the Notes, so that a licensee knows the frames may be watched but not used as a character reference. Where consent from a performer or another person limits use to the Work itself, keep that consent on file: the exclusion in this license operates between the Creator and licensees and does not substitute for the consent itself.