Notes: adapting a book with AI, step by step
The notes cover checking a book's status, choosing an edition, reading an AI tool's terms before uploading, and keeping records. As of 2026-09-25.
Every example comes from one of the registers and links to its source.
They describe what the texts say, not what a court would decide.
They are meant for the planning stage, before any text is uploaded.
Read in order, they follow a project from choosing a book to keeping its paperwork: dates first, then the edition, then the tool's terms, then the record kept with the project.
The notes take a book from shelf to upload; the copyright and library registers hold the details behind the first two steps.
Where a note names a tool, it is because that tool's terms state the point; tools whose terms are silent on it are not listed.
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- Check visibility before the first upload — An unpublished book is safest where nothing is public by default
- Check where the film will be shown — Copyright is national, so a book's status depends on the country
- Choose the edition before the upload — A public-domain story can reach you inside an edition with its own terms
- Deleting a project, and what it does not end — Deleting a project removes it from the account
- Keep the rights evidence with the project — Repeat-infringer rules mean notices count
- Keep your own copy of everything you upload — Several tools keep content only within limits
- Permission for a book still in copyright — Every tool read prohibits infringing uploads or asks the user to warrant the rights
- Read the training clause for unpublished work — For a manuscript or a script under option, the training clause matters more than any other
- Start with the author's dates, not the book's — For most books, the copyright clock starts when the author dies
- Weigh the tools that rule out training — Only three of the 24 tools' terms rule out training on uploads outright: invideo, Vyond and SceneMixer