Members
The Dataset Providers Alliance (DPA) is proud to represent a diverse group of rights holders and organizations committed to promoting the responsible and ethical licensing of intellectual property content for AI and ML datasets. Our members include:
VOICE
GCX
Rightsify launched GCX in 2023 and created the framework to make AI music legally clean for commercial use. GCX provides datasets with over 4.4 million hours of audio and 32 billion metadata text pairs, totaling over 3 petabytes of music data. The perfect data source for training AI music models.
Pro Sound Effects
Pro Sound Effects®, (PSE) helps creators bring ideas to life through sound. Over the past 20 years, PSE has developed the world’s largest library of professionally recorded sound with exclusive award-winning artists like Mark Mangini (Dune) and Richard King (Oppenheimer). Creators and companies in film and television, video games, advertising, media, and technology rely on PSE every day to quickly find the right sound for every project, fuel creativity, and inspire sonic storytelling. Based in Brooklyn since 2004, Pro Sound Effects continues to push the industry forward with flexible platform access and custom licensing options.
SOUND EFFECTS
Sound Ideas
Sound Ideas offers over 1,000,000 sound effects, production elements and royalty free music tracks for television, film sound design, game development, post-production, interactive media and any other professional audio production use you can throw at us. We offer complete sound effects collections on hard drive, DVD and CD for delivery to your studio by digital download or physical shipment. With the acquisition of The Hollywood Edge Collections we have added over 70,000 high-end, professional royalty free tracks that were designed by Award Winning Sound Designers. In June 2019, Sound Ideas was pleased to acquire SoundDogs.com, the world's first online commercial sound effects and production music library, with a vast, easily-accessible sound library for immediate download. Dedicated to the world of professional audio, Sound Ideas keeps its ears tuned to the future needs of sound designers and producers through the creation of new material and the adoption of new technologies. We are determined to continually improve industry standards for royalty free sound effects.
Cool Pursuits
Started in 2024, Cool Pursuits brokers media licensing opportunities for ethical datset licensing for AI, synchronization, distribution, and acquisition.
MUSIC
Pixta
PIXTA is Japanese leading marketplace site of stock photos, illustrations, vectors and footage. Launched in May 2006 with only a few hundreds of images and 50 contributors, we have grown as one of the largest stock image providers in Japan.
IMAGE
IMAGE
vAIsual
vAIsual (v-eye-sual) is a Delaware-based technology company pioneering the commercial deployment of ethical, envelope pushing AI solutions via Makery.ai; a revolutionary content factory where users can generate Virtual Actor Instances (VAI) powered by ethical LoRA models and the DataSetShop.com; a marketplace for users to legally license GDPR compliant biometric data and ethically sourced, legally clean licensed visual content for the generative AI/ ML space and beyond. Founded by Michael Osterrieder, Mark Milstein, Nicolas Menijes and Istvan Novak, vAIsual generates ethical AI solutions that are nothing short of metamorphic. Few events in the history of visual media have been heralded as much as the arrival of generative AI. Â Leveraging the endless possibilities offered by text-to-image synthesis, vAIsual is on the forefront of tomorrow's visual media future today.
Ado
ado is a protected and decentralized communities platform for creative workers. Graphic designers, visual artists, musicians, writers and more can post their work to ado, join communities aligned with their areas of expertise and reach their audience without all the strings attached. Artists own and control their work, not big tech and AI developers.
IMAGE
MUSIC
Cool Pursuits
Started in 2024, Cool Pursuits brokers media licensing opportunities for ethical datset licensing for AI, synchronization, distribution, and acquisition.
Created by Humans
Created by Humans is a groundbreaking AI Rights licensing platform that connects authors with AI developers, enabling the licensing of copyrighted works for AI training and development. The platform aims to protect copyright owners’ rights while fostering innovation in AI. The company was endorsed by the Authors Guild and was founded by Trip Adler, the founder and former CEO of reading subscription service, Scribd. For more information, visit createdbyhumans.ai.
NEWS MEDIA
Dappier
Dappier works with leading media brands to build AI-ready data models and license them via the Dappier Marketplace. With 1-click LLM training, media companies can easily create data models and AI agents fine-tuned to their brand’s identity and content. Our easy-to-use RAG APIs enable AI developers to quickly license premium, real-time content, giving them access to reliable data to build more accurate and engaging AI experiences. Dappier is building the infrastructure for the future of AI, bridging the gap between data providers and developers, and powering the transition from pages to agents in the digital media landscape. Learn more: www.dappier.com
Datarade
Datarade powers the data providers that power AI. The Berlin-based software company operates Datarade Marketplace, visited by 80k data buyers monthly, and Data Commerce Cloud (DCC), a multi-channel data monetization platform designed to help data providers scale their data businesses. Using DCC, companies can publish their data products in the largest data marketplaces with a click, massively reducing the time and engineering resources required to integrate with these sales channels. Current DCC integrations include Databricks Marketplace, Google Cloud Analytics Hub, SAP Datasphere, and its proprietary Datarade Marketplace, with more integrations to come.
TEXT
TEXT
Calliope Networks
Calliope Networks aggregates high quality video (film and TV) and text (books, etc.) to license to generative AI companies to be used as training data.
VIDEO
Calliope Networks
Calliope Networks aggregates high quality video (film and TV) and text (books, etc.) to license to generative AI companies to be used as training data.
Cool Pursuits
Started in 2024, Cool Pursuits brokers media licensing opportunities for ethical datset licensing for AI, synchronization, distribution, and acquisition.
MUSIC
MUSIC
Rightsify
Established in 2013, Rightsify was born as a sync licensing agency for tv, film, and advertisements. From that, we’ve grown and adapted to a global music licensing agency providing music for public spaces to streaming platforms and generative AI applications. Rightsify wholly owns a catalog of more than 10 million human-made songs that is meticulously annotated and labeled for AI training.
GCX
Rightsify launched GCX in 2023 and created the framework to make AI music legally clean for commercial use. GCX provides datasets with over 4.4 million hours of audio and 32 billion metadata text pairs, totaling over 3 petabytes of music data. The perfect data source for training AI music models.
MUSIC
MUSIC
Cool Pursuits
Started in 2024, Cool Pursuits brokers media licensing opportunities for ethical datset licensing for AI, synchronization, distribution, and acquisition.
MUSIC
Rightsify
Established in 2013, Rightsify was born as a sync licensing agency for tv, film, and advertisements. From that, we’ve grown and adapted to a global music licensing agency providing music for public spaces to streaming platforms and generative AI applications. Rightsify wholly owns a catalog of more than 10 million human-made songs that is meticulously annotated and labeled for AI training.
GCX
Rightsify launched GCX in 2023 and created the framework to make AI music legally clean for commercial use. GCX provides datasets with over 4.4 million hours of audio and 32 billion metadata text pairs, totaling over 3 petabytes of music data. The perfect data source for training AI music models.
MUSIC & VOICE
MUSIC
Cool Pursuits
Started in 2024, Cool Pursuits brokers media licensing opportunities for ethical datset licensing for AI, synchronization, distribution, and acquisition.
Pro Sound Effects
Pro Sound Effects®, (PSE) helps creators bring ideas to life through sound. Over the past 20 years, PSE has developed the world’s largest library of professionally recorded sound with exclusive award-winning artists like Mark Mangini (Dune) and Richard King (Oppenheimer). Creators and companies in film and television, video games, advertising, media, and technology rely on PSE every day to quickly find the right sound for every project, fuel creativity, and inspire sonic storytelling. Based in Brooklyn since 2004, Pro Sound Effects continues to push the industry forward with flexible platform access and custom licensing options.
SOUND EFFECTS
Sound Ideas
Sound Ideas offers over 1,000,000 sound effects, production elements and royalty free music tracks for television, film sound design, game development, post-production, interactive media and any other professional audio production use you can throw at us. We offer complete sound effects collections on hard drive, DVD and CD for delivery to your studio by digital download or physical shipment. With the acquisition of The Hollywood Edge Collections we have added over 70,000 high-end, professional royalty free tracks that were designed by Award Winning Sound Designers. In June 2019, Sound Ideas was pleased to acquire SoundDogs.com, the world's first online commercial sound effects and production music library, with a vast, easily-accessible sound library for immediate download. Dedicated to the world of professional audio, Sound Ideas keeps its ears tuned to the future needs of sound designers and producers through the creation of new material and the adoption of new technologies. We are determined to continually improve industry standards for royalty free sound effects.
Pixta
PIXTA is Japanese leading marketplace site of stock photos, illustrations, vectors and footage. Launched in May 2006 with only a few hundreds of images and 50 contributors, we have grown as one of the largest stock image providers in Japan.
IMAGE
IMAGE
vAIsual
vAIsual (v-eye-sual) is a Delaware-based technology company pioneering the commercial deployment of ethical, envelope pushing AI solutions via Makery.ai; a revolutionary content factory where users can generate Virtual Actor Instances (VAI) powered by ethical LoRA models and the DataSetShop.com; a marketplace for users to legally license GDPR compliant biometric data and ethically sourced, legally clean licensed visual content for the generative AI/ ML space and beyond. Founded by Michael Osterrieder, Mark Milstein, Nicolas Menijes and Istvan Novak, vAIsual generates ethical AI solutions that are nothing short of metamorphic. Few events in the history of visual media have been heralded as much as the arrival of generative AI. Â Leveraging the endless possibilities offered by text-to-image synthesis, vAIsual is on the forefront of tomorrow's visual media future today.
Created by Humans
Created by Humans is a groundbreaking AI Rights licensing platform that connects authors with AI developers, enabling the licensing of copyrighted works for AI training and development. The platform aims to protect copyright owners’ rights while fostering innovation in AI. The company was endorsed by the Authors Guild and was founded by Trip Adler, the founder and former CEO of reading subscription service, Scribd. For more information, visit createdbyhumans.ai.
NEWS MEDIA
Dappier
Dappier works with leading media brands to build AI-ready data models and license them via the Dappier Marketplace. With 1-click LLM training, media companies can easily create data models and AI agents fine-tuned to their brand’s identity and content. Our easy-to-use RAG APIs enable AI developers to quickly license premium, real-time content, giving them access to reliable data to build more accurate and engaging AI experiences. Dappier is building the infrastructure for the future of AI, bridging the gap between data providers and developers, and powering the transition from pages to agents in the digital media landscape. Learn more: www.dappier.com
Datarade
Datarade powers the data providers that power AI. The Berlin-based software company operates Datarade Marketplace, visited by 80k data buyers monthly, and Data Commerce Cloud (DCC), a multi-channel data monetization platform designed to help data providers scale their data businesses. Using DCC, companies can publish their data products in the largest data marketplaces with a click, massively reducing the time and engineering resources required to integrate with these sales channels. Current DCC integrations include Databricks Marketplace, Google Cloud Analytics Hub, SAP Datasphere, and its proprietary Datarade Marketplace, with more integrations to come.
TEXT
TEXT & VIDEO
Calliope Networks
Calliope Networks aggregates high quality video (film and TV) and text (books, etc.) to license to generative AI companies to be used as training data.
Ado
ado is a protected and decentralized communities platform for creative workers. Graphic designers, visual artists, musicians, writers and more can post their work to ado, join communities aligned with their areas of expertise and reach their audience without all the strings attached. Artists own and control their work, not big tech and AI developers.
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