Can I show HunyuanVideo clips to EU viewers? Section 5(c) read
Tencent's HunyuanVideo license says do not use or display Outputs outside the Territory, which excludes the EU, UK and South Korea. Clause by clause.
Read literally, no. The Tencent Hunyuan Community License, Section 5(c), says you must not use, reproduce, modify, distribute or display the Tencent Hunyuan Works, or the Output or results of them, outside the Territory, and that any such use is unlicensed. The Territory is the world excluding the European Union, United Kingdom and South Korea. So a clip made with HunyuanVideo weights and published to viewers in those places falls inside the sentence. This is a plain reading of the license file on 2026-10-08, not legal advice.
The clauses that matter
Four short provisions work together.
| Section | What it says | Effect on a published clip |
|---|---|---|
| 1(l) | Territory is worldwide excluding the EU, UK and South Korea | Defines where the grant applies |
| 5(c) | No use or display of Works, Output or results outside the Territory | Reaches the clip itself, not just the weights |
| 6(d) | Tencent claims no rights in Outputs; you and your users are responsible for them and their uses | Ownership is yours, but responsibility is too |
| 5(b) | No use of Works or Output to improve any other AI model | Do not feed clips into another model's training |
Why this surprises people
Most open licenses stop at the weights. Section 5(c) is unusual because it follows the output. A marketing team that makes a Hunyuan clip in Texas and posts it on a channel with EU viewers has to decide whether that display counts as use outside the Territory. The license does not define geography of display, so the safe reading is the broad one.
The Section 6(d) sentence cuts the other way and is easy to quote out of context: Tencent claims no rights in Outputs. That is about who owns the clip. It does not lift the 5(c) restriction.
How a hosted route changes the picture
If the clips come from a model whose weights you never receive, the Tencent license is not the instrument that governs them. On Sume, the video ids that exist today are Seedance, Wan 3.0, Kling, MiniMax H3 and others listed by GET /v1/videos/models; Sume does not list HunyuanVideo. So a team that needs EU-facing clips and wants an open-lineage model can look at wan-3.0 or minimax-h3 hosted ids, and read the provider terms for those, rather than rely on Hunyuan output.
Each Sume job returns a Sume-hosted artifact URL and a receipt with usage.cost, so you can keep a record of which model made which clip.
Practical steps
If you already produced Hunyuan clips:
- List which clips were published where, and note any with EU, UK or South Korean audiences.
- Ask Tencent or counsel whether the 5(c) wording reaches passive viewing; do not assume.
- For new work aimed at those audiences, pick a model whose license or hosted terms you have read.
Sources
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