Can you upload a book still in copyright?

The terms read point one way: not without the rights holder's permission. Runway, Kling AI, Revid, Topview and PopShort prohibit infringing content, and HeyGen bars copyrighted images uploaded without the owner's consent. The warranties elsewhere put the same risk on the user. As of 2026-09-25.

Inclusion rule. A source is listed when its own text states what the question asks. Order. Sources in alphabetical order.

Permission usually comes as an option or a licence from the author or publisher, and film rights are often sold separately from print rights.

Short quotations and commentary may fall under exceptions such as fair use or fair dealing, but a full adaptation of a novel is the kind of use those exceptions rarely cover.

The tools' prohibitions apply whatever the user's intent; a private test counts as an upload too.

1In their own words

HeyGen

copyrighted images to the Services without the consent of the copyright owner

HeyGen, terms

Kling AI

any material which does or may infringe any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property or privacy rights of any other person

Kling AI, user policy

PopShort

Use the Service to infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others.

PopShort, user terms

Revid

Infringes or violates the intellectual property rights or any other rights of anyone else

Revid, terms

Runway

infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity or other right of any person or entity

Runway, terms of use

Topview

Users must not create, publish, or disseminate any illegal or infringing content through TopView.

Topview, terms

• Prohibited content
  Copyrighted images must not be uploaded without the owner's consentHeyGen, terms / recorded 2026-09-25
• Prohibited content
  Material that may infringe copyright is prohibited; repeat infringers can be terminatedKling AI, user policy / recorded 2026-09-25
• Prohibited uses
  Using the service to infringe others' intellectual property is prohibitedPopShort, user terms / recorded 2026-09-25
• Use restrictions
  Content that infringes anyone's intellectual property is prohibitedRevid, terms / recorded 2026-09-25
• Prohibited conduct
  Content that infringes copyright or other rights must not be made availableRunway, terms of use / recorded 2026-09-25
• User content
  Illegal or infringing content is prohibitedTopview, terms / recorded 2026-09-25

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2From book to screen, one tool's way

Once the rights in “Can you upload a book still in copyright?” are settled, SceneMixer describes the adaptation itself like this:

SceneMixer turns a novel into a watchable short-drama series in one pipeline: upload the novel (Chinese or English) → AI extracts characters, scenes, and an episode-by-episode structure → generates consistent character and scene art → writes storyboard scripts → renders video segment by segment (16:9 by default, 9:16 in one setting) → composites full episodes.

SceneMixer, Turn a Novel into a Video Series with AI (read 2026-10-13)

It is the reference every later segment points at, which is what keeps a character's face and a location consistent across an episode.

SceneMixer, Glossary — “What is a setup image for?” (read 2026-10-13)