[
  {
    "key": "gemini_apps_ultra_in_kr_vn",
    "generator": "Google",
    "product": "Gemini Apps (Nano Banana images, Omni video, Lyria music)",
    "media": "image, video, music",
    "plan": "Google AI Ultra",
    "region": "India, South Korea, Vietnam",
    "visible_watermark": "user_setting",
    "visible_detail": "Settings > Media Watermark; the visible mark can be turned off. The setting does not affect SynthID or Content Credentials.",
    "invisible_mark": "SynthID (invisible) on all media made or edited with Gemini Apps",
    "content_credentials": "C2PA Content Credentials in Gemini Apps output",
    "source_url": "https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17405358?hl=en",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "Video carries the mark as a persistent overlay; music gets it on the video or player made with the track. Applies to Gemini Apps only, not other Google products.",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-02"
  },
  {
    "key": "gemini_apps_other_plans_in_kr_vn",
    "generator": "Google",
    "product": "Gemini Apps (Nano Banana images, Omni video, Lyria music)",
    "media": "image, video, music",
    "plan": "Not on AI Ultra: Free (Google's \"otherwise\": added automatically); AI Plus, AI Pro (not named by Google, our reading)",
    "region": "India, South Korea, Vietnam",
    "visible_watermark": "applied_automatically",
    "visible_detail": "The setting is not shown; visible watermarks are applied to all visual media.",
    "invisible_mark": "SynthID (invisible) on all media made or edited with Gemini Apps",
    "content_credentials": "C2PA Content Credentials in Gemini Apps output",
    "source_url": "https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17405358?hl=en",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "Google's page says people in these countries only get the on/off setting with AI Ultra and otherwise get the visible mark automatically. It names no other plan, and doesn't cover AI Studio, the API or work/school accounts, so an image from those routes may arrive without a visible mark. One first-hand report, 2026-11-06 (Ankur, free plan): a Gemini image with no visible mark. A single dated report, not a measured rate; region and save method unknown. Google's page still says the mark is applied.",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-02"
  },
  {
    "key": "gemini_apps_elsewhere",
    "generator": "Google",
    "product": "Gemini Apps (Nano Banana images, Omni video, Lyria music)",
    "media": "image, video, music",
    "plan": "Not stated (page names no plan outside the three countries)",
    "region": "Other regions",
    "visible_watermark": "user_setting",
    "visible_detail": "Settings > Media Watermark; the visible mark can be turned off. The setting does not affect SynthID or Content Credentials.",
    "invisible_mark": "SynthID (invisible) on all media made or edited with Gemini Apps",
    "content_credentials": "C2PA Content Credentials in Gemini Apps output",
    "source_url": "https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17405358?hl=en",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "The page does not say which plans see the setting outside India, South Korea and Vietnam, so the plan cell is left as 'not stated'. Press coverage says it will not appear where local law requires a visible mark; Google's page does not list those countries. The page covers Gemini Apps (web and mobile) only. It doesn't cover AI Studio, the API or work/school accounts, so an image from those routes may arrive without a visible mark.",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-02"
  },
  {
    "key": "flow_ultra_20x_in_kr_vn",
    "generator": "Google",
    "product": "Flow (Veo, Omni, Nano Banana)",
    "media": "image, video",
    "plan": "Google AI Ultra 20x",
    "region": "India, South Korea, Vietnam",
    "visible_watermark": "user_setting",
    "visible_detail": "'Visible watermarking' toggle in the drop-down under the profile picture.",
    "invisible_mark": "SynthID (invisible) on all Flow outputs",
    "content_credentials": "",
    "source_url": "https://support.google.com/flow/answer/16353333?hl=en",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-02"
  },
  {
    "key": "flow_other_plans_in_kr_vn",
    "generator": "Google",
    "product": "Flow (Veo, Omni, Nano Banana)",
    "media": "image, video",
    "plan": "Google AI Plus, AI Pro, other Ultra plans",
    "region": "India, South Korea, Vietnam",
    "visible_watermark": "applied_automatically",
    "visible_detail": "Applied automatically for users not on the Google One AI Ultra 20x Plan.",
    "invisible_mark": "SynthID (invisible) on all Flow outputs",
    "content_credentials": "",
    "source_url": "https://support.google.com/flow/answer/16353333?hl=en",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "Flow needs Google AI Plus, AI Pro or AI Ultra; 'other Ultra plans' means any Ultra plan that is not the 20x plan.",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-02"
  },
  {
    "key": "flow_elsewhere",
    "generator": "Google",
    "product": "Flow (Veo, Omni, Nano Banana)",
    "media": "image, video",
    "plan": "Google AI Plus, AI Pro, AI Ultra (the plans Flow requires)",
    "region": "Other regions",
    "visible_watermark": "user_setting",
    "visible_detail": "'Visible watermarking' toggle in the drop-down under the profile picture.",
    "invisible_mark": "SynthID (invisible) on all Flow outputs",
    "content_credentials": "",
    "source_url": "https://support.google.com/flow/answer/16353333?hl=en",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "The page does not say whether every plan can switch the mark off outside the three countries.",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-02"
  },
  {
    "key": "gemini_notebook_standard",
    "generator": "Google",
    "product": "Gemini Notebook (Veo video, images)",
    "media": "image, video",
    "plan": "Gemini Notebook Standard",
    "region": "All regions",
    "visible_watermark": "applied_automatically",
    "visible_detail": "Plan table: watermark removal 'No'.",
    "invisible_mark": "SynthID (invisible) on Veo, Omni and Nano Banana outputs",
    "content_credentials": "",
    "source_url": "https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16213268?hl=en",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-02"
  },
  {
    "key": "gemini_notebook_plus",
    "generator": "Google",
    "product": "Gemini Notebook (Veo video, images)",
    "media": "image, video",
    "plan": "Google AI Plus",
    "region": "All regions",
    "visible_watermark": "applied_automatically",
    "visible_detail": "Plan table: watermark removal 'No'.",
    "invisible_mark": "SynthID (invisible) on Veo, Omni and Nano Banana outputs",
    "content_credentials": "",
    "source_url": "https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16213268?hl=en",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-02"
  },
  {
    "key": "gemini_notebook_pro",
    "generator": "Google",
    "product": "Gemini Notebook (Veo video, images)",
    "media": "image, video",
    "plan": "Google AI Pro",
    "region": "Not India, South Korea, Vietnam",
    "visible_watermark": "user_setting",
    "visible_detail": "Plan table: watermark removal 'Yes*'; 'Visible watermarking' toggle under the profile picture.",
    "invisible_mark": "SynthID (invisible) on Veo, Omni and Nano Banana outputs",
    "content_credentials": "",
    "source_url": "https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16213268?hl=en",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "Footnote: a visible watermark is applied automatically if you reside in India, South Korea or Vietnam.",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-02"
  },
  {
    "key": "gemini_notebook_ultra",
    "generator": "Google",
    "product": "Gemini Notebook (Veo video, images)",
    "media": "image, video",
    "plan": "Google AI Ultra (20 TB and 30 TB plans)",
    "region": "Not India, South Korea, Vietnam",
    "visible_watermark": "user_setting",
    "visible_detail": "Plan table: watermark removal 'Yes*'; 'Visible watermarking' toggle under the profile picture.",
    "invisible_mark": "SynthID (invisible) on Veo, Omni and Nano Banana outputs",
    "content_credentials": "",
    "source_url": "https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16213268?hl=en",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "Footnote: a visible watermark is applied automatically if you reside in India, South Korea or Vietnam.",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-02"
  },
  {
    "key": "openai_sora_downloads",
    "generator": "OpenAI",
    "product": "Sora (sora.com and the Sora app)",
    "media": "video",
    "plan": "All plans (as described at general availability)",
    "region": "All regions",
    "visible_watermark": "applied_on_downloads",
    "visible_detail": "'Visible moving watermark on videos downloaded from sora.com or the Sora app.'",
    "invisible_mark": "Internal detection tools (OpenAI's wording; no invisible mark named)",
    "content_credentials": "C2PA metadata on all assets",
    "source_url": "https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/sora-2/provenance-and-transparency-initiatives",
    "source_updated": "2025-09-30",
    "caveat": "Describes Sora 2 at launch. OpenAI's provenance help article is reported to say Sora is no longer offered (April 2026); that article refuses automated reading and was not confirmed by a program. Press reports of a paid no-watermark download option are not in this source.",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-02"
  },
  {
    "key": "microsoft_designer_ai_images",
    "generator": "Microsoft",
    "product": "Designer (AI image features)",
    "media": "image",
    "plan": "Free and subscription",
    "region": "All regions",
    "visible_watermark": "not_stated",
    "visible_detail": "The FAQ does not mention a visible watermark.",
    "invisible_mark": "",
    "content_credentials": "C2PA Content Credentials; 'metadata attached to the files to identify the source'",
    "source_url": "https://support.microsoft.com/designer/frequently-asked-questions-about-microsoft-designer",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "The FAQ shows no update date. Bing Image Creator and Copilot images are covered by other Microsoft pages not yet recorded.",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-02"
  },
  {
    "key": "pika_free",
    "generator": "Pika",
    "product": "Pika (video)",
    "media": "video",
    "plan": "Free",
    "region": "All regions",
    "visible_watermark": "not_applied",
    "visible_detail": "FAQ 'Does Pika's Free plan have a watermark?': 'No. Free plan exports have no watermark.' The pricing card says 'Included: No watermark'.",
    "invisible_mark": "",
    "content_credentials": "",
    "source_url": "https://pika.art/pricing",
    "source_updated": "2026-10-28",
    "caveat": "Contradicts many third-party guides that say Pika free exports are watermarked; the pricing page says otherwise. The Free plan has no commercial license ('Not included: Commercial license'). Pika's terms at create.pika.art/terms were read and say nothing about watermarks.",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-04"
  },
  {
    "key": "pika_paid",
    "generator": "Pika",
    "product": "Pika (video)",
    "media": "video",
    "plan": "Starter, Creator, Fancy",
    "region": "All regions",
    "visible_watermark": "not_applied",
    "visible_detail": "Each plan card says 'Included: No watermark'; the plans at a glance list 'no watermark; commercial license included'.",
    "invisible_mark": "",
    "content_credentials": "",
    "source_url": "https://pika.art/pricing",
    "source_updated": "2026-10-28",
    "caveat": "",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-04"
  },
  {
    "key": "luma_terms",
    "generator": "Luma",
    "product": "Luma (Dream Machine, Ray video)",
    "media": "image, video",
    "plan": "All plans (terms of service)",
    "region": "All regions",
    "visible_watermark": "not_stated",
    "visible_detail": "Terms 4.9(1): 'Luma reserves the right, in its sole discretion and without prior notice, to embed watermarks, content credentials, provenance metadata, or other identifying information in or associated with Output, including as may be required by applicable Laws.'",
    "invisible_mark": "",
    "content_credentials": "Content credentials and provenance metadata may be embedded (terms)",
    "source_url": "https://lumalabs.ai/legal/tos",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "The terms bar customers from removing a mark: 'Customer will not, and will not permit its Users to, remove, alter, obscure, or circumvent any such watermarks, metadata, or content credentials.' The terms do not say which plans get a visible watermark; lumalabs.ai/pricing lists Plus, Pro, Ultra, Team and Enterprise and does not mention watermarks, and third-party guides disagree on the tier.",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-04"
  },
  {
    "key": "higgsfield_terms",
    "generator": "Higgsfield",
    "product": "Higgsfield (video, image)",
    "media": "image, video",
    "plan": "All plans (terms of service)",
    "region": "All regions",
    "visible_watermark": "not_stated",
    "visible_detail": "Terms 6.4 'Provenance and Watermarking': 'Company may embed machine-readable watermarks, secure metadata, or content-provenance signals (such as those based on the C2PA / Content Credentials standard) into Outputs so that Outputs can be identified as AI-generated.'",
    "invisible_mark": "Machine-readable watermarks may be embedded (terms)",
    "content_credentials": "C2PA / Content Credentials may be embedded (terms)",
    "source_url": "https://higgsfield.ai/terms",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "Says what Higgsfield may embed, not whether a visible mark is applied on any plan; higgsfield.ai/pricing does not mention watermarks in the text a program can read.",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-04"
  },
  {
    "key": "adobe_firefly_all_plans",
    "generator": "Adobe",
    "product": "Firefly (images, video)",
    "media": "image, video",
    "plan": "Free and paid",
    "region": "All regions",
    "visible_watermark": "not_stated",
    "visible_detail": "Firefly plans FAQ: 'Adobe automatically attaches Content Credentials for transparency.' The FAQ does not mention a visible watermark.",
    "invisible_mark": "",
    "content_credentials": "Content Credentials attached automatically",
    "source_url": "https://www.adobe.com/cc-shared/fragments/products/firefly/plans/faq.plain.html",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "Adobe's Generative AI user guidelines (section 6) add: 'You must not remove, alter, or disable any Content Credentials.' Older Adobe terms quoted in 2023 community threads mentioned a watermark on unpaid downloads; the current pages read today do not. Adobe's own watermarks FAQ at helpx.adobe.com refuses bots (HTTP 403).",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-04"
  },
  {
    "key": "runway_standard_and_above",
    "generator": "Runway",
    "product": "Runway (video)",
    "media": "video",
    "plan": "Standard",
    "region": "All regions",
    "visible_watermark": "not_applied",
    "visible_detail": "The Standard plan card on Runway's pricing page lists 'No watermarks'.",
    "invisible_mark": "",
    "content_credentials": "",
    "source_url": "https://runway.com/pricing",
    "source_updated": "",
    "caveat": "Only the Standard card mentions watermarks. The Free, Pro and Max cards don't, and none says it includes the plan below it, so the page doesn't say whether Free output is marked or whether Pro and Max are mark-free. It says nothing about changing plan. Runway's help centre refuses automated reading (HTTP 403).",
    "source_check": "live: maker's page re-read and key phrases matched",
    "checked": "2026-11-07"
  }
]