Monetize my video archive for AI

Creator-owned video sourced with consent is "not already in the crawl" in a way public uploads are not, which is exactly what buyers pay a premium for.

How licensing works

You keep ownership while fiund clears the rights, exclusively represents submitted footage for AI licensing, and closes ordinary buyer deals.

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:

• Hours — published and unpublished. Raw footage that never went online is exactly what’s not already in the crawl.
• Original files — your camera exports and project files, not the platform’s lossy re-encode.
• A clean ownership story — you filmed it, you own it, and no network or MCN holds a claim.
• Consent — releases for collaborators, recurring guests, and identifiable people on camera.
• Metadata — topics, settings, languages, and dates, even in a simple spreadsheet.

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 everything: published videos, raw footage, b-roll — and the hours of each.
• Export originals from your drives and editing projects, not downloads from the platform: those are lossy re-encodes.
• Gather releases for collaborators and recurring guests, and note who appears where.
• Flag footage with minors, bystanders, or private settings so it can be cleared properly or excluded.
• List third-party material in your edits — music, clips, game footage — so it can be carved out.

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 training rights to multiple AI buyers. Your channel, uploads, and ordinary monetisation carry on unchanged.
• Raw-footage-only. License only what never went online and keep the published work out entirely. A clean shape, not a compromise.
• Buyer-exclusive, defined scope. A request to lock other AI buyers out requires a separate, priced, time-boxed contributor addendum.
• What fiund negotiates. Scope of use, term, delivery, and which parts of the archive fit. Rates are set per deal.

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 archive — published and raw hours, formats, who appears — and get an honest read on demand.
2. Rights check. We confirm ownership is clean — no MCN, network, or platform claim — and map consent for people on camera.
3. Buyer match. The archive goes in front of vetted buyers whose use fits the contributor agreement and consent records.
4. Licence. fiund negotiates and closes the Buyer Licence. Your channel is never part of the deal.
5. Delivery. Files are delivered with documentation attached: licence, consent records, provenance.
6. Payout. You’re paid per the licence terms. The footage — and the channel — stay yours.

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.