MiniMax H3's 'Open' Weights Exclude the US, EU, UK and South Korea From the License — and the Company Is Now Issuing LoRA Takedowns
MiniMax published H3 video-model weights to Hugging Face on August 3, but the Community License Agreement defines an 'Applicable Territory' that omits the US, EU, UK, and South Korea, meaning users there are not licensed to run, modify, distribute, or even deploy the outputs of locally-run weights. MiniMax's Head of DevRel Ryan Lee attributed the US carve-out to active Hollywood copyright litigation — Discovery's September 16, 2025 suit survived a motion to dismiss on May 26, 2026 — not to Chinese content rules. The follow-on: MiniMax has issued takedowns against decensoring LoRAs and at least one author deleted their weights, which drove a 451-upvote r/LocalLLaMA thread and a 129-upvote explainer from a Chinese practitioner on how PRC content-liability enforcement actually works.
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