Provenance and consent
Your counsel reads this page before your researchers read the schema.
- Consent
- 100% documented, written, pre-capture
- Contributor pay
- $38 / hour base, time-based
- License
- Commercial, buyer-owned, perpetual
- Indemnity
- Consent chain warranted
Provenance and consent
The license is a product surface, not a footnote.
Your legal team will read this section before your research team reads the specs. So here is the actual release language, the actual pay, and the actual de-identification pipeline.
Participant release — verbatim
What contributors are paid
- Base session rate
- $38 / hour
- Includes
- Setup, calibration, breaks, travel over 20 min
- Thin-coverage premium
- +$12 / hour (clinical, construction, agriculture)
- Payment terms
- Net 7, no per-task bounty, no rejection clawback
Published because a per-task bounty produces rushed, unusable footage. Collector standards.
De-identification pipeline
- Faces
- Bystander faces detected and blurred; participant faces mostly out of frame by rig geometry
- Plates
- Licence plates and street numbers blurred on all outdoor and automotive footage
- Audio
- Speech scrubbed of names, addresses and card numbers; ambient audio retained
- Screens
- Visible phone and monitor content masked unless it is the manipulated object
- Bystanders
- If a person cannot be de-identified, the clip is discarded rather than shipped
Jurisdictions of capture
- United States
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Japan
- South Korea
- Singapore
- Mexico
- Brazil
- GDPR ART. 6(1)(a)
- CCPA / CPRA
- UK GDPR
- APPI (JP)
- PIPEDA (CA)
- SOC 2 TYPE II — IN AUDIT
License terms
What you actually get.
Plain-language summary of the commercial license attached to every delivered batch. The executed agreement controls, and we will send it before you sign anything.
- Grant
- Perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive by default
- Permitted use
- Training, evaluating, fine-tuning and deploying models, including commercial models
- Derived weights
- Yours. No royalty, no revenue share, no reporting obligation.
- Redistribution
- Not permitted for the footage itself; unlimited for models derived from it
- Term
- No expiry. A lapsed program does not revoke data already delivered.
- Warranty
- We warrant the consent chain for every delivered episode and indemnify against claims arising from it
- Exclusivity
- Available per skill line or per environment, priced as a multiplier
Public dataset licences
How the alternatives are licensed.
Useful whether or not you buy from us. Several teams have shipped models trained on corpora they misread as commercially clear, so verify every line of this against the current terms yourself.
- Ego4D
- Permits commercial use. Widely misreported as non-commercial — check the current terms yourself.
- EgoDex
- CC BY-NC-ND. Non-commercial and no derivatives, which rules out commercial training use.
- EPIC-KITCHENS
- CC BY-NC 4.0. Non-commercial.
- Something-Something
- Research-only academic licence, per-organisation approval.
- Firsthand
- Commercial, buyer-owned, perpetual, with a documented and warranted consent chain.
Summarised in good faith as of the last review of this page. Not legal advice, and not a substitute for reading the licence text.
Consent chain
Six checkpoints, every episode.
Consent is a chain rather than a signature. Any break at any checkpoint discards the footage instead of downgrading it.
- Before capture
- Written release signed, identity verified, hourly rate agreed in Schedule A
- At capture
- Site permission on file; bystander signage posted where the site is semi-public
- At ingest
- Automated face, plate and screen detection; speech scrubbed of identifiers
- At review
- Human reviewer confirms no un-consented person is identifiable in any frame
- At delivery
- Consent artefact IDs listed per episode in the batch data card
- After delivery
- Withdrawal requests honoured for undelivered footage; delivered footage cannot be recalled, and we say so in the release
Send this page to your counsel.
If they need the executed license text or a data card from a real batch before a call, ask and we will send both.