Vol 26, No 10 · April 20, 2026
The Foundry Integrates Griptape
AI news is noisy, it's difficult to separate reality from marketing hype and click-farming. Especially in the media & entertainment space.
This project attempts to filter the noise by watching the following signals: tracking exactly what companies tell us through their terms of service, and how their outputs look side by side.
The Ledger is just starting, and kinks are getting worked out – your feedback is wanted.
What changed in AI platform agreements this week
We are tracking over 50 companies and 235+ policy documents daily. Things that govern how your data is handled, who owns what and who’s on the hook when something goes wrong. These are things you should be reading, but don't have the time for - plus they are super confusing.
If something truly concerns you, reach out to a lawyer - there are no guarantees we catch all changes, something vital to you may be missed or misinterpreted. Docs are diff'ed and summarized by multiple LLMs, then researched, edited and published by a non-lawyer human.
Impact: High — direct for VFX and animation studios
Foundry completed its acquisition of Griptape on February 18, and legal integration is now visible. During our window, the Griptape privacy and terms pages stopped serving Griptape content and started serving Foundry's.
What Changed
Three new clauses are flagging. An AI-output ownership clause
vests ownership of generated outputs in the licensee but conditions it on third-party rights in "the underlying AI models, training data, or other components" — any encumbrance on the model or its training data rides along with your work. A regulatory-fine indemnification clause makes the licensee responsible for Foundry's costs arising from non-compliant use, and non-compliant is not narrowly defined. A third-party AI model disclaimer says Foundry has not reviewed or pre-vetted any of the third-party AI components it integrates with — meaning: do your homework on models you plug into.
Prohibited and High-Risk Uses: Foundry's on-prem EULA — the document that governs Nuke, Mari, Modo, Katana — now contains a new "Prohibited and High-Risk Uses" clause that imports EU AI Act framing directly into the contract. The software cannot be used for anything classified as high-risk under the EU AI Act.
Privacy Notice Expansion: Covers "all products and services offered by Foundry," on SaaS or on-prem, and new data categories now explicitly collected include AI prompt and input data, telemetry on which third-party AI models are selected, and deployment and configuration data. Foundry is rolling out AI orchestration across its creative software, and the legal framework to govern it is arriving at the same time. If your pipeline uses any Foundry product, this is the most important change in the entire corpus.
Impact: Moderate — For anyone on an Enterprise Contract
Between the December 15, 2025 version and the April 7, 2026 version, four material commercial protections dropped out of Runway's Enterprise Services Terms.
What Changed
The twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week availability commitment is gone.
Terms of Service, Enterprise Agreement, and DPA were rewritten together, landing new AI Input and Output definitions and — for Enterprise customers — a meaningful upgrade: Customer Content is now confidential information by default.
Minimax restructured its API Privacy Policy with a pro-user anti-profiling commitment and a structured AI Output responsibility framework in its ToS.
Stability.ai added a LoRA/DoRA/BoRA framework to its Dream Studio terms with a discretionary removal clause.
LangChain rebranded its platform as LangSmith and narrowed its Customer Data definition.
Google expanded the Gemini API's cross-reference into Google Cloud Terms to bring in Regional Modifications and pricing provisions.
Autodesk rebranded Construction Cloud as Forma and introduced a viewer-conversion-on-expiration pattern that other platforms are likely to copy.
One prompt. Multiple platforms. Let's give notes.
Bringing decades of experience in feature film, episodic, and commercial production, we evaluate every output against what matters: does it meet the bar for professional use? Think of it as a dailies review for one-shot prompts.
Prompt Tested
The man opens the book, flicks through the pages, stops, and lays it flat to read.
What sounds simple quickly exposes how well these models understand hands, motion, and physical reality. Assuming you are human, you have seen this through your own eyes and know how it should look. Good news is none returned a hand with extra fingers!
Kling3.0
Hands interact correctly
Pages flick (slightly clumsy, but believable)
Rated Green as compared to other model results
LTX2.3
Pages move unnaturally
Cover opens "magically"
Focus shifts
Wan2.2
Natural opening
Only turns one page (fails task)
Seedance2.0
Motion feels real
Hallucinates an extra hardback cover — could be cleaned up by a compositing artist
Most models are still struggling with:
Kling and Seedance came close on this go-around, but still imperfect.
