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 "summary": "Turns a script into a video with a digital presenter, aimed at workplace training. Pick a stock presenter or make one of yourself, and clone your voice. A free plan exists but adds a watermark.",
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   "note": "Your own materials stay yours; Colossyan stock material is licensed into your video but can't be used on its own (s.5.5). You may not pass AI video off as human-made. Terms don't separate free and paid plans."
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   "note": "Use banned in US-embargoed countries and regions (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Crimea). Separate Enterprise terms exist on the same page."
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   "field": "likeness_cloning",
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   "confidence": "low",
   "confidence_label": "Inferred or from a secondary source; needs review",
   "note": "Terms: avatars only of yourself or someone who consented, aged 18+; the customer is responsible for collecting consent. No check by Colossyan described. Voice clone rules not separately described."
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   "field": "made_by",
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   "note": "Free plan lacks watermark removal; Professional includes it."
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