AI-Editing Disclosure
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territory / exclusivity
Overview
This AI-Editing & Image-Alteration Disclosure ("Disclosure") supplements and is incorporated into the Terms and Conditions governing the CLIENT's order whenever the order includes a digital-alteration add-on. It governs how Zamora Digital Studios ("COMPANY") identifies materially-altered media and how the CLIENT must handle disclosure when publishing.
1. Principle — Enhance, Not Deceive
The COMPANY may digitally enhance media, but will not misrepresent the property. Standard photographic correction is normal and requires no disclosure; material alterations that change what a buyer would understand about the property are identified to the CLIENT and must be disclosed by the CLIENT.
2. Scope — What Counts as a "Material Alteration"
For purposes of this Disclosure, material alterations are:
• Virtual staging (digitally added furniture or décor)
• Virtual / AI twilight (day-to-dusk digital lighting simulation)
• Sky replacement
• Object or item removal
• AI-grade edits that change the depicted condition of the property
The following are standard correction and are NOT material alterations (no disclosure required): color and exposure correction, lens/perspective correction, sky-tone adjustment, and minor blemish/spot removal.
3. COMPANY Identification of Altered Deliverables
The COMPANY identifies materially-altered images to the CLIENT so the CLIENT can meet any disclosure obligation, by:
• Embedded metadata — an alteration note written into the image's IPTC/XMP fields (for example, "Digitally enhanced — virtual twilight"), alongside the COMPANY's license metadata; and
• A delivery manifest listing which images in the order were materially altered.
The COMPANY does not commit to burning a visible on-image label (such as a "Virtually Staged" watermark) onto deliverables unless separately agreed in writing.
4. CLIENT's Disclosure Duty
The CLIENT must disclose materially-altered images when publishing them, in accordance with the rules of the CLIENT's MLS, brokerage, the National Association of REALTORS®, and applicable state requirements. The COMPANY supplies the labels, manifest, and ready-to-use disclosure captions described in Section 3 and Section 7 to make this straightforward. Publishing compliance is the CLIENT's responsibility.
5. What the COMPANY Will NOT Do
The COMPANY will not: alter or remove permanent structural features; add or remove rooms; conceal permanent defects; or otherwise misrepresent the property. This protects both parties.
6. Virtual vs. True Twilight; Virtual Staging
• Virtual / AI twilight is a digital lighting simulation and is labeled as such. True (sunset) twilight is a real photograph taken at dusk and requires no AI disclosure — preserving the COMPANY's quality distinction between the two offerings.
• Virtual staging uses digitally-added furnishings; staged images are identified to the CLIENT (via metadata and the delivery manifest), and the COMPANY can provide an unstaged/original counterpart on request.
7. Disclosure Summary at Delivery
Because the order itself records which alterations were included, the COMPANY provides a short Disclosure Summary at delivery listing the enhanced images and supplying fixed-template, copy-paste captions (for example, "Photo enhanced — virtual twilight" or "Virtually staged") that the CLIENT can paste directly into MLS fields. Captions are static templates keyed to alteration type.
8. No AI-Training Use (Defensive — Retained)
The CLIENT may not, and may not permit others to, use the delivered media — in whole or in part — to train, fine-tune, or develop any artificial-intelligence or machine-learning model or dataset, nor submit the media to any third-party service for that purpose, without the COMPANY's express written permission. No AI-training rights are granted. (This restates and reinforces the Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning clause in the applicable service Terms.)
9. Responsibility & Indemnity
If the CLIENT publishes materially-altered images without the disclosure required by the CLIENT's MLS, brokerage, or applicable law, that non-compliance — and any resulting claim, penalty, or liability — is the CLIENT's responsibility. The CLIENT agrees to indemnify and hold the COMPANY harmless from any claim arising out of the CLIENT's failure to disclose.
10. Governing Law
This Disclosure is governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, consistent with the governing-law and venue provisions of the applicable service Terms.
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