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Module 5 of 6Lesson 1 of 2~15 min

Usage rights, copyright and confidentiality

A visual made with AI quickly raises questions of licensing, ownership and project secrecy. This lesson helps you read a tool's terms for a commercial use, assess what remains protectable in an AI-assisted image and decide what your practice can entrust to an online service.

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Lesson objective

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to analyze an image tool's terms for a given commercial use, assess what can be protected in an AI-assisted visual, and decide what the practice may send to an online service.

Topics covered

  • AI copyright
  • AI tool licenses
  • project confidentiality
  • AI-generated images

Where it fits

Rights, confidentiality and transparency

What can I do with generated images, what can I send to tools, and what must I tell the client?

Lessons in this module

  1. Usage rights, copyright and confidentiality (this lesson)
  2. Transparency towards the client, the jury and the public

What you will learn in the course

This lesson is part of the course Bring AI into architectural visualization

  • Identify, for a given project, the steps where AI speeds up visual production or analysis, and those where the 3D model and the architect's judgment remain the reference, including for regulatory compliance.
  • Generate façade or mood variations from a 3D view with a built-in tool or an image model, while controlling fidelity to the project (structured prompt, influence, masks, references), then choose a rendering engine and AI post-production according to the deliverable and the license.
  • Run a workflow of mesh export, AI material creation and re-import into a rendering engine, and diagnose a faulty PBR material.
  • Assess the risks of an AI-assisted visual (usage rights, copyright protection, confidentiality of 3D models, transparency towards the client and the public) and write the corresponding usage rules.
  • Select a tool chain suited to a deliverable (competition, design stages, marketing, renovation, planning application) and justify it by fidelity, lead time, quality, license cost and risk.

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