Represented hours
The amount of footage the rights holder reports as present in the archive. These totals remain estimates until the relevant material is reviewed.
Rights and licensing
Review the rights before you license the data.
Archive size is only the starting point. Production access depends on the footage, supporting records, intended use, and requirements agreed during evaluation.
Rights are part of the product.
We keep ownership, participant consent, facility permission, provenance, privacy, and intended use in the review from the beginning.
The records available for a specific part of the archive are reviewed under NDA. Final license terms are based on the material accepted for the intended use.
Review framework
Six areas to examine.
The depth and outcome of each review depend on the relevant footage and the proposed project.
- 01
Ownership history
Review who controls the footage and the records supporting the right to offer it for evaluation and licensing.
- 02
Participant consent
Review the available permissions for people who appear in or contributed to the recorded material.
- 03
Facility permission
Review the available authority to record in and use footage from the relevant workplaces or sites.
- 04
Data provenance
Review what is known about when, where, how, and for what purpose the footage was created.
- 05
Privacy safeguards
Identify personal, sensitive, or confidential material and agree on any required exclusions or controls.
- 06
Responsible use
Define the permitted project, users, systems, and other limits that should apply to access and production use.
Volume definitions
Represented hours are not accepted hours.
Keeping these figures separate prevents an archive-level estimate from becoming a promise about production-ready volume.
Accepted usable hours
The footage that meets the agreed ownership, quality, provenance, privacy, technical, and project requirements.
Production license
Access should match the approved use.
When an evaluation succeeds, the production agreement can define the accepted footage, permitted use, delivery, access controls, and other project terms.
This page explains the review approach. It is not a representation that every record exists for every item in the archive, and it does not replace legal, privacy, security, or technical diligence for a specific transaction.