Film License

1. What this license covers

This Film License explains how you may use a film that Their Farewell (“Their Farewell”, “we”) makes for you, including the music, styles and AI-made parts in it. It is part of our Terms of Use.

Your own photos, recordings and words stay yours — this license doesn’t change that. It covers what we add: the edit, the film style and its design, the animation, the recreated voice and face, the subtitles and the music.

2. What you may do

Once your order is paid, we give you, and the family of the person in the film, a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free license to use the film for personal, family and memorial purposes. You don’t need to ask us first. For example, you may:

• show it at a funeral, memorial, wake, celebration of life or anniversary, including in a church, funeral home, crematorium or venue;
• include it in a livestream or recording of the service;
• send it to family and friends, and keep copies on any device;
• post it on social media, a memorial website or an online obituary, as long as it is shown in full with its AI label;
• download it, convert it to other formats, and burn it to a DVD or USB stick for the family.

Funeral directors and venues may show the film at the service on the family’s behalf without a separate license.

3. What you may not do

• Present the AI-made parts as a real recording of the person.
• Edit the film, or the recreated voice or face, to make the person appear to say or do something they didn’t say in the approved film.
• Use the film, the recreated voice or face, or parts of them in advertising, to sell anything, or in any legal, financial or official matter.
• Sell or license the film to others, or charge people to watch it.
• Take the music, the recreated voice, or our film styles out of the film and use them on their own, for example in another video.
• Use the film to train AI models, or to make another recreation of the person.

If you’d like to use the film in a way that isn’t covered here — for example, in a documentary or a public exhibition — write to [email protected]. We usually say yes, with the family’s agreement.

4. Previews

The quick previews you can make before ordering are low quality and watermarked, and are only for deciding on your film. Please don’t share or publish them. They come with no license beyond viewing them on our site and showing them to your family while you decide.

5. Music

The music in our films was composed for Their Farewell and is licensed for use in the film, wherever you show it as allowed above — including at the service, in livestreams and on social media. If a platform wrongly flags the music, write to [email protected] and we’ll help you clear it.

6. Who owns what

We keep the rights in what we created for the film — the edit, the styles and templates, the animation, the music and our software — and you receive the license above. We use your film only to deliver it to you and to keep it on its page. We will never use it in advertising or show it publicly without the family’s separate written permission.

The person’s likeness, voice and story always belong to them and their family. We claim no rights in them.

7. Ending the license

The license is permanent. We may end it only if the film is used in a way this license clearly forbids and the misuse isn’t stopped after we ask. If a close relative of the person asks us to, we may remove the film from our own site, but copies you have already saved remain yours to keep under this license.

8. Our site and third-party components

The content of theirfarewell.com — its text, design, images and example films — belongs to us or to those who license it to us, and may not be copied without permission. Our site and films use open-source software and fonts under their own licenses (for example, fonts under the SIL Open Font License). Those licenses remain with their authors, and nothing here limits your rights under them.