This page is the most important one on the site. It is where authors decide whether they can trust us with their manuscripts. So we wrote it in plain English and we will not hide behind boilerplate.
This is true for every package, from the $1,500 Pilot Scene to the $75,000+ Legacy commission.
When we finish a commissioned deliverable (a trailer, an animated film, a series of episodes), we transfer ownership of that final, delivered creative work to you on full payment, subject to two practical limitations:
What you receive depends on the package:
We use AI tools as part of our production stack — alongside human direction, manual editing, and traditional creative review. We are transparent about which tools we use today and what they touch:
The tools change over time. The principle does not: AI is a production tool, never a substitute for creative judgment, direction, or the original story.
If a tool we use changes its data-handling policy in a way that affects this commitment, we will update this page and notify any active clients.
AI image and video tools occasionally produce output that resembles existing characters or styles. We screen all deliverables before sending them to you. If you spot anything in a draft that looks like it could be confused with another property, tell us — we rework it free as part of the standard revision round.
AI voice and AI music platforms have specific commercial-use terms tied to the subscription plan they were generated under. We use platforms and plans that grant commercial use to the output, and we sublicense that commercial use to you for your deliverable. If a future deliverable requires a platform tier we are not currently on, we will quote the additional license cost transparently before proceeding.
You confirm to us that you own — or have written permission to use — the book, characters, illustrations, and any other material you give us. If a third party challenges our use of that material because the rights were not actually yours to grant, that risk sits with you, not with AMS. (See Terms §4.)
By default we may show the finished deliverable as part of our portfolio. We may name you, your book, and the project in case-study language unless your Production Agreement says otherwise. If you do not want to be publicly named — for example, because you are pre-announcement on a major release — tell us before the project starts and we lock the work behind a private link until you give the green light.
If anything in this policy is unclear, or if a rights question comes up in the middle of a project, email hello@animatemystorybook.com and we will work it out in writing before anything ships. We have never had to take a rights dispute past good-faith email resolution, and we would like to keep it that way.