SenseDefend

Synthetic-media instruments, by article and effective date

Sora on a moving watermark that follows the download route

This is the only visible mark in the record tied to how a file left the vendor rather than to what was paid or which switch was set. It also moves, which is a deliberate answer to the easiest way to remove one. As of 2026-09-22.

Attaching a mark to a route instead of an accountA tier-gated mark follows what was paid, which an invoice recovers years later. A mark tied to the download route follows how a file left the vendor, which nothing recovers unless somebody wrote it down at the time.What decides whether this file carries the notice?Tier-gated entriesWhat was paidRecoverable afterwards from an invoice,without anybody planning aheadThis entryHow the file was taken awayRecoverable only from whatever the workflowlogged at the timeBoth look identical in the finished file
Fig. 1 The same generation can exist marked and unmarked depending on the way it was taken away.
OpenAI Sora on the deployer disclosure column, and what that column leaves open. Recorded 2026-09-22.
PointWhat the record holds
Article 50(4), deployer disclosureA visible moving watermark on videos downloaded from the site or app
Read fromA system card, listing it beside two other measures
What it does not settleWhat a file obtained by any other route 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.

1A moving mark is harder to crop out than a static one

A notice in a fixed corner is removed by a crop that sacrifices a little framing. A mark that travels across the frame has no single region to remove, so taking it out costs either most of the picture or actual work.

Nothing on the page says that is why it moves, and the inference is obvious enough to leave to the reader. The cell records the property; it does not record a motive the vendor did not state.

2Attaching a mark to a route rather than to an account

Tying the notice to downloads means the same generation can exist marked and unmarked depending on how it was taken away. That is a different arrangement from every tier-gated entry here, and it moves the question from billing to workflow.

For a record it also moves what has to be written down. An account tier is recoverable afterwards from an invoice; which route a particular file came out through is recoverable only if somebody noted it at the time.

3Timing is the clause this cell actually meets

The manner paragraph requires the information to be given clearly and distinguishably at the latest at the first interaction or exposure. A notice rendered into the picture satisfies that by construction: there is no exposure without it.

A metadata layer does not have that property, because nothing obliges a platform to surface it. The entry describes both layers, and only one of them arrives at the moment the paragraph names.

  • OpenAI Sora
    A visible moving watermark on videos downloaded from sora.com or the Sora appthe layer tied to the download routeSora 2 System Card, OpenAI / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Article 50(5)
    The information must be given clearly and distinguishably at the latest at the first interaction or exposureand must meet accessibility requirementsAI Act Explorer, Article 50 / recorded 2026-09-12

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 What it asks for. Filed beside it: Synthesia on when a mark appears, HeyGen on two plans and a free tier.