Moving Beyond Web Scraping

Generative video models like Sora and Runway are changing the world. But the “move fast and break things” era of web scraping is completely dead. AI companies are now facing massive copyright lawsuits.

To build safe models, labs need legally cleared videos to train AI. Here are the top platforms where enterprise labs are licensing their video datasets.

1. Troveo: The Global Media Bridge

Troveo has built a massive global network to unlock non-public, real-world data for frontier AI.

• What They Do: They license premium, off-the-shelf video datasets directly from media companies and broadcasters.

• Why It Works: They offer full indemnification, meaning AI labs can train models on premium content without fearing copyright strikes.

2. ShotWot: The Edge-Case Video Network

While Troveo licenses existing media, ShotWot actively creates custom data.

• What They Do: ShotWot operates a brief-based ecosystem. AI labs request specific edge-case scenarios, and ShotWot’s creators capture that exact footage.

• Why It Works: It is the ultimate solution for videos to train AI when the footage simply does not exist online. You get 100% rights-cleared, bespoke temporal datasets on demand.

3. Versos: The AI Video Network

Versos is a highly innovative platform designed to make video archives instantly discoverable for AI companies.

• What They Do: They streamline the ingestion and transportation of massive video libraries via natural language search.

• Why It Works: No manual tagging is required. Content owners can surface their hidden video assets directly to AI data buyers.

4. Synthesia & Shutterstock Partnerships

Synthesia is heavily licensing corporate video footage to train their synthetic avatars.

• What They Do: They partner with massive libraries like Shutterstock to secure clean training data.

• Why It Works: It allows them to generate highly realistic, natural human motion and speech-to-video outputs safely.

5. Adobe Firefly Initiatives

Adobe is aggressively building its own text-to-video models.

• What They Do: They are paying creators directly to source high-quality footage specifically for Generative Fill and video AI tools.

• Why It Works: By keeping everything native and directly compensated, Adobe ensures their foundation models remain entirely copyright-safe.