Wan and Firefly on who inherits the job of marking
The contrast is not about mechanism. It is about whether a later decision by the vendor can still reach the output, and for one of these two it cannot reach anything already downloaded. As of 2026-09-22.
| Point | Alibaba Wan | Adobe Firefly |
|---|---|---|
| Where output is produced | A hosted API, and also downloaded weights | The vendor's own hosted product |
| What the terms ask of an operator | Nothing about marking output | Not applicable; the vendor runs it |
| Who can change what output carries | The caller, or the operator of the weights | The vendor |
Inclusion rule. Two entries whose published answers to one column pull in different directions. Cells hold each vendor's own wording from the page its entry names; pairs that agree on the column are not filed at all. Order. Fixed order, and the two columns are in the order the heading gives them.
1A hosted product is a place an obligation can land
One interface, one default, one decision that moves everybody's output at once. Whatever a provider duty asks for, a hosted product is somewhere it can be implemented and verified.
Published weights are not that. They run on other hardware under other code, and no announcement, parameter or policy from the original team reaches them. The marking question travels with the weights.
2Permissive terms are silent on purpose
The repository was read for any requirement on a downstream operator to mark what comes out, and none was found. That is not the same kind of silence as a pricing page skipping a subject.
Broad permission is the point of publishing weights that way. The register records the silence and keeps it in a separate category from the ordinary sort, because they mean different things.
3Neither entry is described as doing the other's job
The hosted entry writes credentials and says nothing about a visible notice. The open-weights entry documents an optional corner mark on its hosted route and nothing at all for the other route.
Read together, they map the two ends of the provider question: a party that can act and a party that may not exist in any identifiable form once the weights are loose.
- Alibaba WanNot stated in the instrument (as of 2026-09-12)what the Apache 2.0 open-weights terms ask about marking output
- Adobe Firefly (adobe.com)Outputs include Content Credentials that indicate AI was used in the creation processa generative image and video tool
4Sources
Read from the text-to-video API reference at alibabacloud.com and the Firefly product page at adobe.com, consulted 2026-09-22. Full entries: Alibaba Wan and Adobe Firefly. The column itself is on What it asks for. Other pairs on file: SceneMixer and Pika, Kling and Hailuo.