License my film archive for AI

Owned or represented footage is sought for video-generation and vision models. Value depends on volume, resolution, subject variety, and clean rights.

How licensing works

fiund papers training rights and on-camera consent, exclusively represents the submitted footage for AI licensing, and handles ordinary buyer deals without repeated approvals.

The full pipeline — briefs, rights clearing, delivery — is on the how it works page. Below is what it looks like from the owner's side.

What buyers look for

Licensing your archive shouldn't require guessing what a buyer wants. The diligence questions are consistent, and every item you can already answer strengthens your position:

• Volume and variety — total hours or clip count, and the range of scenes, settings, and subjects.
• Technical quality — resolution, codecs, frame rates, and whether true masters are available.
• Chain of title — production agreements, commissioning contracts, and any distribution carve-outs.
• On-camera consent — talent and appearance releases, mapped to the footage they cover.
• Metadata — shot logs, scene descriptions, timecodes, locations, and dates.

How to prepare your archive

None of this has to be finished before you get in touch. But each step below shortens the rights check and sharpens the quote:

• Inventory the library: titles, runtimes, formats, and where the masters actually live.
• Export from masters where you can — originals, not the compressed copies made for screeners.
• Pull the paperwork together: production agreements, talent releases, location releases, commissioning contracts.
• Map which footage shows identifiable people, and whether a release covers them.
• Flag what you can’t clear — stock inserts, licensed music, third-party archive footage — so it can be carved out early.

Deal shapes

There is no standard rate card. Rates are set per deal, and fiund negotiates the Buyer Licence under the standing contributor agreement. Common shapes include:

• Standard buyer licence. fiund can grant defined, non-exclusive training rights to multiple buyers while the library remains active under the contributor agreement.
• Buyer-exclusive, defined scope. A request to lock other AI buyers out requires a separate contributor addendum, additional payment, and terms shaped around existing distribution deals.
• Collection or subset. A series, a genre, or just the fully cleared portion. Leading with what’s clean and papering the rest later is a normal shape.
• What fiund negotiates. Scope of training use, term, territory, delivery, and which titles fit. Rates are set per deal under the standing contributor agreement.

The stages of a deal

Every licence moves through the same stages without requiring another contributor approval for the ordinary transaction. How quickly depends on the state of your paperwork:

1. Review. You describe the library — hours, formats, subjects, rights posture — and get an honest read on demand for it.
2. Rights check. We review chain of title and flag gaps — talent releases, third-party inserts, distribution exclusivities — before any buyer sees a frame.
3. Buyer match. The library goes in front of vetted buyers whose use fits the contributor agreement and documented rights.
4. Licence. fiund negotiates and closes the Buyer Licence without requiring another contributor signature for an ordinary deal.
5. Delivery. Footage is delivered in the agreed formats with documentation attached: licence, releases, provenance.
6. Payout. You’re paid per the licence terms. The library stays yours to license again.

What you keep

• Ownership — you license, you don't sell.
• Simplicity — fiund handles ordinary AI-licensing deals without asking you for another signature each time.
• Control — you can withdraw content from future licensing, and buyer-specific exclusivity still requires a separate addendum. See how payouts work.