Where the red lines live in a vendor's documents

Vendors spread their rules across several documents: terms of service, a usage or acceptable use policy, community guidelines, help centre pages, and sometimes a child safety page. The same vendor can put its age rule in the terms, its content categories in a usage policy and its practical limits in a help article. From 6 source pages, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.

Vendors spread their rules across several documents: terms of service, a usage or acceptable use policy, community guidelines, help centre pages, and sometimes a child safety page. The same vendor can put its age rule in the terms, its content categories in a usage policy and its practical limits in a help article.

For a production, that means reading more than one page. In this register, one vendor's two documents disagree on age, and another's most useful limits live only in help pages, where the company-wide policy says nothing about prominent people at all.

The rating pages record which document each statement came from, so a reader can go straight to the page that says the most.

1Examples from the register

Glorify graphic violence or gore

Adobe Generative AI User Guidelines

Make sure your age is verified. You must be 18 years of age or older.

Google Flow Help, Get started

content inciting or glorifying terrorism, extremism or organised crime, and serious threats of violence or harm against persons or property

invideo Usage Policy

Gore includes images of detached body parts of humans or animals, cannibalism, blood, violence (images of shooting or bombing someone, for instance)

Midjourney Community Guidelines

• Section 1
  Glorifying graphic violence or gore is prohibitedBe respectful and safeAdobe Generative AI User Guidelines / since 2026-05-15 / checked 2026-09-25
• Who can use Google Flow
  18 or older, with the age verifiedGoogle Flow Help, Get started / recorded 2026-09-25
• Clause 2.1
  Serious threats of violence and glorified terrorism are prohibitedinvideo Usage Policy / since 2026-07-08 / checked 2026-09-25
• What is considered gore
  Gore is barred and defined to include blood and images of shooting or bombing someoneMidjourney Community Guidelines / recorded 2026-09-25
• Prohibited content
  Excessive violence, gore or disturbing imagery is prohibitedPixVerse Community Guidelines / recorded 2026-09-25
• Violence and gore
  Graphic violence and incitement against humans or animals are prohibitedRunway Usage Policy / since 2026-03-06 / checked 2026-09-25

2The making side of the policy

Policy wording in “Where the red lines live in a vendor's documents” meets production here; SceneMixer's pages describe its side like this:

A line lives inside the shot where it is spoken, in four parts: the speaker chip, the delivery note in round brackets, the words after the colon, and the voice chip after the words.

SceneMixer, Dialogue in the Storyboard: How to Write a Line, and What Save Tidies Up (read 2026-10-13)

That is SceneMixer's core design: characters live in a persistent asset library with locked reference art, and every segment that features a character is generated against those references — same face in episode 1 and episode 50.

SceneMixer, The AI Micro Drama Production Pipeline — “Can AI keep the same actors across 50 episodes?” (read 2026-10-13)

3Keep reading

• Reading a content policy before writing a script
• Fiction and violence in AI video policies

The primer is about reading what vendors wrote. It is not advice about what any law requires.