Which AI generators ship a built-in IP check, and which do not

Most generators we read, 17 of the 22, say something about protecting users from infringing IP, or intellectual property: characters, logos, brands and faces that someone holds the rights to. Behind those words sit three different mechanisms, and only one of them tells you anything about the finished image.

1. The generator refuses to draw. If a prompt names a famous character, brand or celebrity, the generator won't run it. That stops the most obvious mistake. But getting an image back doesn't mean the image is clean.
2. The generator promises to pay. It covers legal costs and damages if a rights holder brings a claim over the image. Lawyers call this indemnification. It's insurance for after the problem has happened. It shows you nothing in advance, and it's almost always reserved for enterprise customers.
3. The generator checks the finished image. It compares the output with a database of known characters, logos and faces and tells you what it found before you publish. Of the three, it's the only one that tells you about a problem before anyone else sees the image.

Generators most often block prompts that name celebrities, known characters and brands. More than half promise to pay if there's a claim, almost always under an enterprise contract. Hardly any look at the finished image. And the five at the bottom of the table say one thing in their terms: what you publish is on you. Midjourney puts it this way: "You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing the Assets."

The table sums up what each generator says on its own pages. "Not stated" means its pages say nothing on that point.

Source: each generator's own public pages, linked in the table, read November 2, 2026.

The guardrails don't really work, because a model is bad at checking its own output. The host of The Magnifier podcast asked me exactly this in the episode released October 28: if the generator won't draw Mickey Mouse by name, isn't that enough? My answer was no. As I put it on the show: if you name IP, you'll get IP.

A character can also show up with no name in the prompt at all. In our test of five models, one refused every prompt that named a character and still drew the character from hints: A clean prompt is not a clean image.

Filters also err the other way. Higgsfield says its IP check can catch original content too. Luma says its moderation sometimes blocks a prompt by mistake, for example over a famous name or a word with two meanings.

A promise to pay protects you after a rights holder has made a claim. It doesn't tell you which image to fix before you publish. There's another approach: train the model only on images the developer has rights to. Adobe Firefly, Bria and the Getty Images generator work this way. But as I said on the same episode, the market still picks open models, the ones anyone can download and run, because they match the quality and cost less.

A check looks at the file itself. Before you publish, you learn whether it contains someone else's character, logo or face, and you get a record you can show a lawyer or a client.

OpenArt's check runs on CopySight technology; OpenArt says so on its feature page. We showed an earlier version of it in Enterprise AI deals stall on one IP question. Shutterstock and Envato review finished images too, as a separate review for some customers. Shutterstock's staff review takes 1 to 2 business days. Envato says its review may involve people.

1. Does the generator check the finished image, or only my prompt?
2. What does it look for: logos, characters, famous faces?
3. Do I get a report I can send to a lawyer or a client?
4. Does the check work on video and on files from other tools?
5. If it promises to pay on a claim, on which plan, and when does it refuse to pay?

If your generator doesn't check the finished image, you can run the check as a separate step, after generation and before you publish. That's how CopySight works. You upload an image or a video and get a report on what it resembles and how closely. The decision to release stays with your lawyer.

If you build your pipeline in ComfyUI, a tool where generation runs as a chain of nodes, you can add the CopySight check as one more node. It's on GitHub.

Check your own files in CopySight.

Artem Petrov is co-founder and CEO of CopySight. He talked about who owns AI-generated work on The Magnifier podcast, in an episode released October 28, 2026.

Illustrations generated with AI (Nano Banana Pro via fal.ai) in the CopySight illustration style and scored with CopyScore: no protected IP detected, risk low.