Sora on the route the visible mark is scoped to
Two named surfaces carry the notice. Nothing is said about files that leave by any other means, so the scope of the visible layer here is a workflow question rather than a billing one. As of 2026-09-22.
| Point | What the record holds |
|---|---|
| Stated scope | Videos downloaded from the vendor's site or app |
| Read from | A system card listing the measure among three |
| What it does not settle | What a programmatic or shared copy carries |
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.
1Scoping a notice to a route is unusual and consequential
Every other visible mark in this record is scoped to what was paid or what was set. This one is scoped to how the file was obtained, which means the same generation can exist in two states.
For a production that is the state hardest to reconstruct. Neither an invoice nor an account page records which surface a clip was pulled from, and nothing in the file necessarily says either.
2The metadata layer is scoped differently on the same entry
The manifest is described as applied to all assets, with no route, tier or version attached. So within one entry the wide scope belongs to the machine-readable layer and the narrow one to the visible layer.
That is worth noticing because it is the reverse of the usual pattern here. Most entries describe a visible mark broadly and say nothing at all about anything a parser could read.
3What a scoped visible mark leaves to the publisher
A viewer only benefits from a notice that is in the file they watch. Where the notice depends on the route, a publisher cannot rely on it without controlling the route, and the article's disclosure duty does not move to accommodate that.
The cell therefore records the scope rather than treating the mark as a property of the model. Read strictly, it is a property of two named surfaces.
- OpenAI SoraA visible moving watermark on videos downloaded from sora.com or the Sora appthe layer tied to the download route
- Article 50(2)Machine-readable marking does not apply to assistive standard editing that does not substantially alter the inputsecond exemption
4Sources
Wording taken from the Sora 2 system card at cdn.openai.com, consulted 2026-09-22. All four rows for this generator sit on OpenAI Sora; the same column across every entry is read down on The fourth row. Filed beside it: Wan on the words in the corner, Kling on the word brand.