@techreport{itfs2027generativeaidisclosurerule,
  title = {Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) 2027 regulations: generative-AI disclosure and labelling rule},
  year = {2026},
  institution = {Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH)},
  url = {https://itfs.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/REGLEMENT-OF-ITFS-2027_EN.pdf},
  abstract = {The regulations for the 34th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (27 April to 2 May 2027), posted in August 2026 with entries opening on 1 September, contain the festival's first rule on generative AI, in section 1.1.1 of the terms of participation. Every submitter must "declare any use of generative AI technologies in the production process of their film", which "includes AI systems used to generate or significantly alter images, animations, text, speech or music", stating "the nature and extent of AI use" truthfully in the submission form. The declaration is for transparency with the festival and its pre-selection jury "and does not automatically result in disqualification", but "the festival has the right to label or categorise films whose essential creative visual design was primarily created using generative AI", and it "reserves the right to exclude submissions from the competition if intentionally false or misleading information is provided". Set beside Ottawa's 2026 rule, which makes fully AI-generated work ineligible, Stuttgart's is the disclose-and-label model: the two together give a program a real comparison to teach from.},
  keywords = {sector-guidance, festivals, generative-ai, authorship, transparency-and-labelling},
  note = {AI \& Animation Education Knowledge Base}
}