MiniMax and KAGAMIAI Host Tokyo Conference on Licensed Japanese IP and H3 IP Edition

MiniMax published a recap on October 12, 2026 of the Japan IP.AI Co-Creation Conference, held in Shibuya, Tokyo on September 11, 2026 and co-hosted with KAGAMIAI. The source is MiniMax’s own news page, so the figures below are company-reported and not independently verified.

Details

• Attendance and follow-up: More than 150 companies from Japan and the United States attended. MiniMax says more than 60 companies have since expressed interest in adopting MiniMax H3 IP Edition.
• Theme: The conference was framed as moving from Fair Use to Fair Pay, with clear licensing paths, reliable usage tracking, and value returned to creators and rights holders.
• Speakers: Takami Kondo of SBI Neo Media Holdings opened the event. Other named speakers included Yasushi Akimoto, Motoi Chujo of KADOKAWA, Linda Sheng and Akira Takeuchi of MiniMax, and representatives of Higgsfield, Krea, HeyGen, Runway and MIXI.
• World IP.AI Co-Creation Declaration: It lists six commitments: respect for IP, appropriate licensing, responsible innovation, ongoing dialogue, fair value sharing, and global collaboration.
• H3 IP Edition: MiniMax describes support for targeted edits, character and scene references, and coordinated visuals, audio and lip sync. Through KAGAMIAI’s Kagami Gate, each IP can carry approved assets, generation rules, commercial terms and reporting requirements. Availability depends on each partner’s terms.
• Kagami Gate: Infrastructure combining standardized licensing, usage monitoring, review and revenue distribution. Rights holders set terms before creation, and usage data supports payment.
• Pilot figures: In a Captain Tsubasa x PixVerse pilot over 45 days, 126,360 creators in more than 195 countries and regions produced 329,314 pieces of content. More than 99% of activity came from outside Japan, and policy-violating content was 0.14%. This pilot involved PixVerse, not a MiniMax product.
• Production readiness: A closing panel, using MIXI’s Monster Strike promotion as a reference, named five conditions for moving past a demo: workflow fit, cost targets, production data protection, permission controls, and reliable creative control.

What happened next

This is a business and licensing story more than a model release. It shows MiniMax positioning the open-weight H3 family, announced in August, for rights-managed commercial use, where approved assets and revenue sharing matter. The recap names no signed deals, prices or launch dates for H3 IP Edition, and says more IP collaborations are in development.

The interest figure of 60 companies is not the same as adoption. Whether Kagami Gate-style licensing becomes a standard for AI video is still open. MiniMax says it will continue working with KAGAMIAI and partners.