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Sell & license your data
For owners of audio, video, and archives who want to license to AI teams and keep their rights.
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How much can you sell egocentric video data for?
Understand egocentric data prices, published examples, accepted recording hours and the difference between collector earnings and a buyer’s dataset licence.
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How much does Figure Index pay? What is publicly verified
Figure Index describes payment by the minute, but its reviewed public page does not publish one universal dollar rate. Here is what to check before recording.
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How much does Scale AI pay? Outlier work and data licensing explained
Separate expert contributor pay, project-specific terms and existing dataset licensing. No universal Scale footage-purchase rate is verified in the sources reviewed.
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How to sell egocentric data to AI companies
Prepare a first-person video dataset for buyer review: task coverage, activity hours, camera streams, annotations, permissions and a representative sample package.
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How to sell your data to AI without losing ownership
Licensing is not a buyout. How to keep your copyright, authorize Fiund to handle AI licensing, withdraw from future deals, and get paid per licence.
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What makes your recordings valuable to AI buyers
Buyers pay for what a crawl cannot give them. The qualitative drivers that make a recording worth licensing.
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How to license a video archive to AI teams
Clear a film or stock archive asset by asset: rights status, releases for people on camera, provenance, and deliverables.
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Licensing call-centre and customer-call recordings to AI
Turn customer calls into licensable speech data without skipping consent, redaction, and the law over recorded voices.
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Licensing research interviews and field recordings to AI
License interviews and field recordings the honest way: participant consent, ethics alignment, de-identification, ownership.
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How to license your voice to AI safely
License your voice without signing it away. Bounded terms, revocation, and the laws now written for voice cloning.
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Licensing spoken-word archives (lectures, sermons, courses) to AI
Prepare decades of lectures, sermons and courses for licensing: who owns the recording, and speaker consent at scale.
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Non-rival data: license the same recordings to many models
A recording is not used up when a model trains on it. That single fact is why non-exclusive licensing multiplies what an owner can earn.
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How AI training royalties work vs a one-time buyout
When you license data for AI training, you usually face one choice first: an ongoing licence or a one-time buyout. Here is how each model works and what you trade.
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How to make money creating content for AI training
How creators, studios, archives, and collection operators can prepare original material for AI programs — without promising income or giving up ownership by default.
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