Who owns an AI generated video?

It is a fair question and it comes up on nearly every first project, usually asked a little nervously because the answer feels like it should be complicated. It is not. Here is the plain version, without the legal fog, so you know exactly where you stand before you commit to anything.

You own the finished film

Once the project is paid, the finished film is yours. You can use it across any channel you like: your Instagram, your ads, your website, your pitch deck, wherever it needs to go. There is no per use fee, no licensing meter running in the background, no coming back to ask permission every time you want to post it somewhere new. You paid for the film, the film is yours to use. That is the whole arrangement.

Once the project is paid, the finished film is yours to use across any channel you like.

The one thing I keep

I may show the work in my own portfolio, because the feed is the portfolio and finished work is how new clients find me. If you would rather I did not, for a sensitive campaign or a launch you want to keep quiet until it drops, just say so and I will keep it off my channels. That is the only carve out, and it is yours to override. Everything else about how the film gets used is your call.

What about the music and the assets

The music in your film is licensed, which means it is cleared for the use we agreed. This matters, because a film scored with a track that is not properly licensed is a film that can get muted or pulled off a platform, which is the last thing you want after paying for it. Using licensed music from the start is part of delivering something you can actually post without a takedown risk hanging over it.

The collab arrangement, if you took it

There is one place ownership and usage intersect with the deal, and that is the collab rate. While I am building the miggycreates brand, I offer a lower rate in exchange for being tagged as a collaborator on the finished post. Your post, your caption, your audience, my name just sits next to yours. That is a usage arrangement you opt into knowingly for a lower price, it is spelled out before you agree, and it does not change the fact that the film itself is yours. If you would rather not, the standard rate has no such tag.

The honest bottom line

The reason this answer is simple is that I want it to be. A film you are anxious about using is a film that does not do its job, and a client worried about rights is a client who does not come back. So the arrangement is deliberately plain: you own the finished film, you can use it anywhere, the music is cleared, and the only thing I hold is the right to show the work unless you would rather I did not. If a specific situation needs something different, we sort it out before the project starts, not after. No surprises is the whole policy.