Two parallel classifications: one for what is in the frame, one for who supplied it. Both are applied per asset, written into the sidecar and backed by a provenance record we can produce on request.
Landscape, reef, wave, aerial, empty water. Person detection returns zero across all sampled frames. Licensed unrestricted for AI training.
Named individuals with an AI-scoped release on file, signed per person and linked to the operator contract. Bounding boxes retained as annotation.
Automated face masking applied at stage 10, before any human reviewer or model sees the frame. Unmasked source is never delivered and never leaves ingest storage.
Signed master agreement, verified identity, AI-scoped exclusivity. Eligible for every licence type including multi-camera sets and bespoke commissions.
Identity confirmed through payment onboarding, warranty accepted at signup. Eligible for the main catalogue.
Footage is accepted, screened and held. It earns nothing and is licensed to nobody until the uploader verifies.
Audio is used to synchronise multi-camera footage, then discarded. We never license audio, and no third-party music enters the catalogue.
Per-asset documentation is the difference between licensing footage and inheriting someone else's liability.
Every operator signs the same warranty set before any file is ingested. Breach terminates the agreement and triggers indemnity.
Recorded at ingest, immutable, produced on request for every asset we licence.
asset_id rc_example_0001 operator example_operator_01 (EXAMPLE DIVE CENTRE) contract RC-EXAMPLE-0001 · signed 2025-11-14 shot_by EXAMPLE INSTRUCTOR 01 captured 2026-07-14T02:14:07Z location -8.72751, 115.54441 · Example Bay device GoPro HERO12 Black · SN C33xxxxx file_hash sha256:9c3f…d81a (at receipt) people none detected · 1,264 frames sampled release n/a tier 1 — clear licence_scope ai_training_unrestricted evidence_pack available on request (PDF + hashes)