Understand the rules before you capture or license footage.
Clear answers about Veriscope Lens, the Heatmap, and the Amanah Protocol. Answers below are drafts pending team confirmation.
If you captured something happening in front of you - an event, an incident, a moment as it unfolded - you're an eyewitness. Your footage is the source material, and Veriscope Lens gives it a sealed proof of authenticity that newsrooms can read.
Record on Veriscope Lens. Your footage is sealed with proof of authenticity the instant you hit record, before any editing is possible.
Newsrooms licence your footage directly through Veriscope. You keep the majority share of every licence - Veriscope takes a small cut to run the protocol - with the split shown up front before any sale, and each licence paid out on its own rather than pooled into a diluted royalty.
Yes. Your account can operate under a pseudonym and stay anonymous. We deliberately don't capture precise triangulated location data; for an eyewitness, that level of detail can be dangerous rather than useful.
Yes. Posting to Instagram, TikTok or X costs you nothing here - Veriscope Lens isn't exclusive. The difference is that social platforms strip your metadata on upload, so once your clip is re-shared you have no way to prove it was yours or that it's real. Capturing on Veriscope Lens keeps the sealed chain of custody stored with the clip, so you can post wherever you like and still license the footage later with its proof intact.
If your question is not here, ask us when you sign up for the beta. Tell us whether you capture footage or source it, and we will answer with the detail your workflow needs.
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