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What each generator documents about marking its output

Licence terms, where a file's state is fixed at birth

One entry here is read from licensing terms. That genre answers a question no plan grid raises: what happens to the files already made when the subscription underneath them changes. As of 2026-09-22.

A rule that runs in both directions from one dateLicensing terms fix the state of a file at the moment it is generated. Files made on the free or entry plan keep their watermark after an upgrade, and files made while a paid subscription was active are not described as changing when that subscription ends. The generation date is the boundary.When was this particular file generatedWhile on the free or entry planMarked, permanentlyThe terms say a later upgrade does notlift the watermark from it.While a paid plan was activeClean, permanentlyA later downgrade is not described aschanging files already produced.The date decides, not the invoice
Fig. 1 Every other row on this register describes the product now. This one describes individual files permanently.
The entry read from licensing terms, with the default those terms describe. Read 2026-09-22.
GeneratorWhat the terms say the output carriesDocument read
Luma AIWatermark, not lifted by a later upgradelicensing guide

Inclusion rule. Entries whose recorded values come from a document setting out what the user may do with the output, rather than what a plan costs. Order. Alphabetical by the name in the first column.

1Terms are written in the past tense as well as the present

Luma AI's licensing guide states that content generated on the Free and Lite plans carries a watermark which cannot be removed even if the subscription is upgraded later. A pricing grid has no grammar for that sentence. A grid describes what a column buys from now on; terms describe the standing of material, which means they have to say something about material that already exists.

The same paragraph runs the rule in reverse. New generations after a cancellation or downgrade fall under the Free plan terms, described as limited usage, non-commercial use and possibly including a watermark, while the clean files made while the subscription was active are not described as changing. The boundary in both directions is the date a file was made.

2Why that changes how a production is planned

On the plan-gated rows elsewhere on this register, upgrading is a purchase that can wait until delivery approaches, because the mark comes off whatever gets generated afterwards. Here the state of a file is decided at the moment it is generated, so a week of trial output is not material a later payment can clean up. It has to be generated again.

That makes this the one entry where the reading date matters less than the generation date. Every other row on this site describes a property of the product today; this row describes a property attached permanently to individual files, which is a stricter rule to live with and a more precise one to record.

3A licence is not a description of the file

What the terms do not do is describe the mark or the file's contents. Nothing on the licensing page or the pricing page names a provenance standard or a metadata field, so the machine-readable cell records not documented, exactly as it does for the nine grid-only rows. Precision about rights and silence about bytes can coexist in one document.

The two boundaries a licence draws are also not the same boundary. Watermarking and commercial rights are grouped together here, at the Plus plan, but on another entry in this register they sit a tier apart. Reading a watermark line as permission to publish is the mistake this genre most reliably sets up.

4Sources

  • Free tier
    Content generated on the Free and Lite plans carries a watermark that cannot be removed, even if the subscription is upgraded laterstated on the licensing pageLuma, Dream Machine licensing guide / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Paid tier
    Content generated under the Plus, Unlimited and Enterprise plans carries commercial usage rights with no watermarkfrom Plus upwardLuma, Dream Machine licensing guide / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Control
    After a cancellation or downgrade, new generations fall under the Free plan terms and may include a watermark, while earlier Free and Lite output keeps its watermarktied to the state of the subscriptionLuma, Dream Machine licensing guide / recorded 2026-09-22

Every line above is read from the document named beside its row, on 2026-09-22. The same values in their register form are on the support table, and the rules for what a cell may hold are on the what earns a row page. Other kinds of source document: research notes, plan grids.