{"name":"footage.cool Modern Aerial & Marine Footage Library: AI training dataset","publisher":"footage.cool (Phil Maher)","summary":"Real camera and drone footage filmed by one person, Phil Maher, between 2014 and 2024: drone and aerial, ocean, underwater and marine wildlife, beaches, desert, roads, towns, and resorts, mostly in Baja California Sur plus Colorado and the California coast. Single-author chain of title, no AI-generated content. Licensed for AI training under a separate dataset agreement; the per-clip production licenses sold on the site exclude training.","generated_at":"2026-11-05T06:54:43.977Z","human_page_url":"https://www.footage.cool/ai-training","eligible_catalog":{"clips":54026,"hours_of_footage":94.2,"clips_without_people":38919,"clips_with_master_on_file":54026,"clips_with_verified_4k_master":51822,"shot_years":"2014-2024","countries":[{"country":"Mexico","clips":38950},{"country":"United States","clips":14314},{"country":"unknown","clips":554},{"country":"Canada","clips":178},{"country":"Portugal","clips":20},{"country":"Bahrain","clips":2},{"country":"Haiti","clips":2},{"country":"Zambia","clips":1},{"country":"India","clips":1},{"country":"Singapore","clips":1},{"country":"Philippines","clips":1},{"country":"Croatia","clips":1},{"country":"Italy","clips":1}],"categories":[{"category":"People","clips":11913},{"category":"Aerial","clips":10515},{"category":"Beach","clips":9605},{"category":"Ocean","clips":5552},{"category":"Wildlife","clips":5361},{"category":"Road","clips":2818},{"category":"Landscape","clips":1652},{"category":"Desert","clips":1327},{"category":"Urban","clips":1008},{"category":"Sunset","clips":955},{"category":"Architecture","clips":870},{"category":"Nature","clips":859},{"category":"Mountain","clips":497},{"category":"Forest","clips":395},{"category":"Other","clips":366},{"category":"Agriculture","clips":333}],"note":"Every published clip with a preview on file. Proxies are 256x144 H.264 MP4. Nearly every master is 4K UHD; clips_with_verified_4k_master counts those already probed. Use scope to count a filtered subset."},"pricing":{"currency":"USD","tiers":[{"id":"evaluation","label":"Evaluation sample","amount_cents":0,"max_clips":100,"media":["proxy"],"commercial_use":false,"summary":"Free. Up to 100 clips with complete metadata records and watermarked analysis proxies, matched to your filters. Business email required; reviewed by a person before delivery."},{"id":"research","label":"Research license","amount_cents":2500000,"model":"flat","max_clips":25000,"media":["proxy"],"commercial_use":false,"eligibility":"accredited academic institutions; institutional email required","payment":"invoice","summary":"$25,000 flat for up to 25,000 clips, analysis proxies and metadata only. Accredited academic institutions only (institutional email required). Non-commercial training, evaluation, and publication. Paid by invoice."},{"id":"commercial","label":"Commercial training license","per_clip_cents":{"proxy":300,"4k":1000},"minimum_cents":1000000,"model":"per_clip","max_clips":50000,"media":["proxy","4k"],"commercial_use":true,"payment":"card for proxy orders up to 1000000 cents; bank wire invoice for 4k and larger orders","summary":"$3.00 per clip for watermarked analysis proxies, or $10.00 per clip for clean 4K masters. Minimum $10,000, up to 50,000 clips per order. 4K and orders above $10,000 are paid by bank wire. Larger or full-corpus orders are negotiated directly."}],"note":"Prices are fixed. Orders above the commercial cap and custom terms are negotiated by email: licensing@footage.cool. There are no volume discounts in the self-serve flow. Exclusivity is never offered for datasets."},"policy":{"exclusivity":"Never. Every dataset license is non-exclusive.","manual_approval":"Every order is reviewed by Phil Maher after payment clears, usually within one business day. Nothing is delivered before that approval. Declined orders are refunded in full.","buyer_eligibility":"Organizations only. The customer_email must be a working address at the buyer's own domain; consumer and disposable mailboxes are refused. The research tier needs an academic institutional domain.","payment":"Card orders (proxy media, total up to 10000 USD) pay in Stripe's hosted checkout; the buyer pays in a browser and agents never handle card details. All 4K orders and all orders above that amount are invoiced and paid by bank wire; invoices are due in 30 days and delivery starts after the funds settle.","delivery":"Metadata as JSONL and CSV, the signed license, and per-clip media URLs (analysis proxies, plus clean masters for 4k orders) behind a private download token valid 30 days.","protection":"Every delivery is unique to its order: proxies carry an imperceptible order-specific watermark, records carry the licensee name, and the clip selection differs per order. A chargeback or refund revokes download links immediately. See agreement sections 4, 6, 7, and 15.","releases":"No model or property releases exist. Each record carries a people_visible flag; filter with exclude_people.","quote_validity_hours":72},"agreement":{"version":"2026-10-26","sha256":"4ae48d8cf71bb2fd10d9fddaabce45f7deb0e6f3c83c81aead8cef2b954f9554","url":"https://www.footage.cool/api/datasets/agreement.txt","note":"Present the key terms and the full text to the buyer. Accepting requires sending this sha256 back, which proves the agent saw the current version.","key_terms":["Non-exclusive license to use the Dataset to train, fine-tune, evaluate, and validate AI models. You own your models and their outputs.","You may not share, publish, resell, or upload the footage, frames, metadata, or anything derived from them that could recreate the footage, except to contractors bound by equal terms.","No facial recognition, biometric identification, surveillance, re-identification of people, or deepfakes of real people.","No building a competing footage library or dataset product, and no training a model to reproduce the footage.","Evaluation samples: 90 days of internal evaluation, then delete. Research licenses: accredited academic institutions, non-commercial use only.","Each delivery carries hidden order-specific identifiers. If a copy turns up outside your organization, it is presumed to come from your order.","Unauthorized distribution costs the greater of three times the fees or $79 per clip released, plus injunctions and legal fees.","Fees are non-refundable after delivery. A chargeback suspends the license and is a breach.","Keep the Dataset encrypted and access-controlled; report any leak within 72 hours; certify compliance once a year on request.","Colorado law. Disputes go to binding arbitration in Denver; the licensor may also go to court to stop a leak or collect fees."]},"filters":{"year_from":"integer, earliest shot year (catalog spans 2014-2024)","year_to":"integer, latest shot year","categories":"array of scene categories: Aerial, Beach, Ocean, Wildlife, People, Road, Landscape, Desert, Urban, Sunset, Architecture, Nature, Mountain, Forest, Agriculture, Other","countries":"array of country names as in the catalog, e.g. [\"Mexico\", \"United States\"]","locations":"array of place words matched against city, region, country, and place, e.g. [\"Cabo Pulmo\", \"Colorado\"]","query":"free text matched against titles, descriptions, tags, and places; every word must match","exclude_people":"boolean; drops clips flagged as showing people","min_duration_seconds":"integer","max_duration_seconds":"integer","require_4k_master":"boolean; only clips whose master has been verified as 4K UHD or larger","max_clips":"integer cap; the selection is a pseudo-random sample of the matches, drawn per order"},"workflow":["GET  /api/datasets/catalog                 this document","GET  /api/datasets/agreement.txt           the agreement text; X-Agreement-Sha256 header carries the hash","POST /api/datasets/scope                   {tier, media_resolution, filters} -> counts and hours (free, no email needed)","POST /api/datasets/quotes                  {tier, media_resolution, filters, customer_email, customer_org, intended_use} -> order_token, price, agreement hash","POST /api/datasets/accept                  {order_token, agreement_sha256, legal_name, signer_name, confirmed:true} after the buyer approves","POST /api/datasets/checkout                {order_token} -> Stripe checkout_url (card orders) or a bank-wire invoice (4k and larger orders)","GET  /api/datasets/orders/{order_token}    status; poll until delivered, then fetch download.manifest_url"],"endpoints":{"catalog":"https://www.footage.cool/api/datasets/catalog","agreement":"https://www.footage.cool/api/datasets/agreement.txt","scope":"https://www.footage.cool/api/datasets/scope","quotes":"https://www.footage.cool/api/datasets/quotes","accept":"https://www.footage.cool/api/datasets/accept","checkout":"https://www.footage.cool/api/datasets/checkout","order_status":"https://www.footage.cool/api/datasets/orders/{order_token}"},"mcp":{"endpoint":"https://www.footage.cool/mcp","tools":["describe_training_dataset","get_dataset_agreement","scope_training_dataset","quote_training_dataset","accept_dataset_agreement","create_dataset_checkout","get_dataset_order"]},"contact":"licensing@footage.cool"}