Can you sell your Zoom data for AI training?

Zoom's terms let the account holder export its own data, and its API terms bar using data pulled through the API to train AI, so a sale should start from the holder's own export. The content itself carries high rights risk. This is research from public sources, not legal advice.

The holder's own export
The holder can export it
Data pulled through its API
Bars training AI on it
Rights risk of the content
High

What a holder should know

Zoom does not stop the account owner downloading recordings, but any API-based pipeline (including a broker's or labeller's app) is barred from using the content for multi-customer AI training without Zoom's written permission. The heavier blockers are outside Zoom: every participant's voice and face (BIPA voiceprint and face-geometry exposure for Illinois participants), all-party consent wiretap laws for recordings (California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington, Florida and others), and external participants (clients, candidates, patients) who never agreed to anything beyond the meeting. Treat recordings as audio-speech and video with the highest consent bar.

Getting your own data out

Cloud recordings and transcripts are downloadable by hosts and account admins from the web portal; local recordings sit on hosts' computers (plan-level detail not verified).

Zoom Terms of Service, section 10: "You retain all ownership rights in your Customer Content subject to any license or other rights granted herein." "Zoom does not use any of your audio, video, chat, screen sharing, attachments or other communications-like Customer Content (such as poll results, whiteboard and reactions) to train Zoom or third-party artificial intelligence models."

Apps that use its API

Zoom API License and Terms of Use (Last Updated: July 16, 2025): "You may not use any Customer Content (as defined in the Zoom Terms of Service) accessed or obtained using the Zoom APIs or your Application to train, develop, evaluate, test, improve, or modify artificial intelligence or machine learning models (including language models) ("AI Training"), nor allow such data to be used for those purposes, except with Zoom's express written permission. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you obtain explicit consent from a Zoom Account Owner to use their Customer Content for AI Training, you may use such Customer Content solely for AI Training specifically for their use. For clarity, the resulting customized model may only be used by the Customer who consented to the use of their Customer Content and not by any other party."

The sources, word for word

  • Zoom API License and Terms of Use(last updated 2025-07-16)
    “You may not use any Customer Content (as defined in the Zoom Terms of Service) accessed or obtained using the Zoom APIs or your Application to train, develop, evaluate, test, improve, or modify artificial intelligence or machine learning models (including language models)”
  • Zoom Terms of Service(read 2026-10-11)
    “You retain all ownership rights in your Customer Content subject to any license or other rights granted herein.”

Research from public sources, read on the day shown. It is not legal advice: a sale needs a lawyer who has read the records and the contracts.

What Zoom holds that buyers ask for

  • Internal communications

    Email, Slack or Teams history

  • Recordings and media

    Audio, video, images or footage the company made or owns

Who buys it

  • Mode (BizBuyData)

    "The operating history of companies and nonprofits could be worth $100K-$5M."

  • Handshake AI

    "Payouts range from $100K to $4M." Its estimator shows $383,083 to $896,969 for 100 employees and 10 years.

  • Polyshares

    Typical licences of $100K to $2M, sometimes more. Its track record page lists four anonymous licences from $110,000 to $450,000.

  • micro1

    $100k+ for a qualified partnership, $500k+ for large or multi-team datasets, $1M+ for highly unique data.

  • Scale AI

    "$10K–$1M+ illustrative value per data partnership", scaling with how often data is delivered.

  • SuperAnnotate

    "Indicative $100K – $1M+", priced on rarity, depth and exclusivity.

Every buyer and its published terms

What your Zoom records are worth, and what to settle before anyone sees them.

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In this topic

Rights and law

  1. Start hereCan this data legally be sold or licensed for AI training?Privacy law, copyright and fair use, software vendors' terms, de-identification, bankruptcy sales and what a licence agreement holds.
  2. GuideIs It Legal to Sell Customer Data? A US Guide for AI TrainingOften yes, but through layers: your privacy policy, the FTC Act, state and sector laws, and customer contracts. De-identified records are the main lawful path.
  3. GuideFair Use and AI Training: What US Courts Have RuledUS courts are split: training was fair use in Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta, not in Thomson Reuters v. Ross, and pirated copies lost. Where each stands.
  4. GuideIs It Legal to Scrape Data for AI Training? (US Law, 2026)Scraping public pages is rarely a federal crime after Van Buren and hiQ, but contract, copyright, anti-circumvention and privacy law apply. Resale is hard.
  5. GuideCan a Company License Employee Emails and Slack for AI Training?Usually yes for business records the company controls, but only after it handles monitoring notices, third parties in the messages, privilege and vendor terms.
  6. GuideSelling Customer Data in Bankruptcy: Section 363 ExplainedA bankrupt company can sell customer data only if the sale fits its privacy policy, or a court-appointed privacy ombudsman reports and the judge approves it.
  7. GuideWhat Is a Data Licensing Agreement? The Terms for AI TrainingA data licensing agreement lets a buyer use data for set purposes while the holder keeps ownership. Each clause AI buyers ask for, and where holders stand.
  8. GuideHIPAA De-Identification for AI Training: Safe Harbor vs Expert DeterminationHealth data leaves HIPAA only through Safe Harbor (remove 18 identifiers) or an expert's determination of very small risk. How each works for AI training.
  9. GuideLicensing Company Data for AI Training Under the GDPR (2026)Yes, an EU, UK or Swiss company can license its records for AI training, if it has a lawful basis, tells people, drops sensitive data and uses a transfer tool.
  10. GuideSelling Data for AI Training: Privacy Law by CountryOutside the EU and UK, licensing records for AI training mostly needs consent or anonymisation, and a contract or consent to send them to a US buyer.
  11. RegisterLawsuits and rulingsEvery case, ruling and settlement over training data.
  12. RegisterLicence termsWhat buyers ask for in a licence, and where holders stand.
  13. PageDe-identification standardOur rules for removing people from records, each with its source.
  14. RegisterAI crawler censusA daily census of robots.txt across the most visited sites.

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