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Synthetic-media instruments, by article and effective date

Kling AI on a watermark the page calls a brand mark

Most visible marks in this record are described without saying what they are for. This one carries a purpose in its name, and the purpose named is marketing rather than transparency. As of 2026-09-12.

A signature and a disclosure with identical pixelsA brand watermark is a vendor's mark on work made with its tool. A disclosure is a notice that content was generated. The two can look the same on screen and behave very differently once somebody asks what is allowed to remove them.A brand markA generated-content noticeWhat it assertsWhich tool made thisThat this was generatedWho it is forThe vendor's own reachWhoever is watchingWhy it may be removedThe customer paid for a clean fileNo commercial reason existsWhat the page here saysBrand watermark, removable on membershipNothingSame pixels, different reason to exist
Fig. 1 This entry is the one that names its purpose, and the purpose named is marketing rather than transparency.
Kling AI on the deployer disclosure column, and what that column leaves open. Recorded 2026-09-12.
PointWhat the record holds
Article 50(4), deployer disclosureA visible brand watermark on output, removable on paid membership
Read fromA membership plan table, written to sell memberships
What it does not settleWhether a viewer draws any conclusion from the pixels

Inclusion rule. One cell of this generator's entry, quoted from the page the entry names. Coverage, commentary and third-hand summaries are not admitted, in either direction. Order. Fixed order: the cell, the page it came off, then the limit on reading it.

1A signature and a disclosure can look identical

A brand watermark is a vendor's mark on work made with its tool. A disclosure is a notice that content was generated. The pixels may be the same and a viewer may reach the same conclusion from either, and they are different things.

The difference shows in what is allowed to happen next. A signature has an obvious commercial reason to disappear on paid tiers, and it does here. A disclosure with the same behaviour would raise a question nobody has asked this vendor.

2Naming the purpose is more useful than leaving it blank

Three neighbouring entries describe a visible mark and give no reason for it at all. This page gives one in a single adjective, which lets a reader stop guessing about intent and start reading the cell for what it says.

It is also the honest reading of a membership page. The document exists to describe what each price includes, and the mark appears there as something the price removes rather than as a position on anything.

3What the entry leaves at three rows of silence

Nothing on the page addresses a machine-readable signal, a reason the mark exists beyond branding, or anything that survives an edit. Three of this entry's four rows therefore record that the point is not addressed.

That shape is common here and worth stating plainly: for most generators the only public evidence about marking is a line item on a plan page, and a line item is thin ground for any conclusion about a regulation.

  • Kling AI (kling.ai)
    Brand watermark removal is listed as a benefit of the paid membershipsan AI video generatorKling AI, membership plans / recorded 2026-09-12
  • Article 50(4)
    Deployers must disclose image, audio or video content that is a deep fakefirst subparagraphAI Act Explorer, Article 50 / recorded 2026-09-12

4Sources

Wording taken from the membership plans at kling.ai, consulted 2026-09-12. All four rows for this generator sit on Kling AI; the same column across every entry is read down on What it asks for. Filed beside it: Runway on an omission from a plan, Sora on a moving watermark.