Can we sell our Zoom and Teams meeting recordings to AI companies?

Sometimes. As of October 2026, seven of the 25 providers Data Licensing Report tracks name meeting recordings, transcripts or meeting systems as sources. The recordings must still exist, and Teams expires them after 120 days by default; consent to being recorded may not extend to licensing.

Do AI buyers want meeting recordings at all?

A few say so. Polyshares’ Zoom guide (checked September 2026) says “Meeting recordings capture how people talk through real work: sales calls, customer onboarding, design reviews and training”, and Corpus lists “meeting transcripts” among the records it licenses. Data Licensing Report lists a provider below only if its own pages name meeting recordings or transcripts, or name meeting systems such as Zoom among their sources. Avelence lists “meeting history” under email and calendar (Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar) rather than a meeting system, and several providers name Microsoft Teams without mentioning recordings or transcripts, so they are not listed.

Provider	What it is	Where meetings appear on its pages
Appen	Licenses directly	“Messaging & meetings” among typical sources of decision records
Corpus	Licenses directly	Meeting transcripts, with Zoom among its systems
License My Data	Introducer	“Conferences and recorded meetings — worth more with the slide deck”, in its video track for producers, broadcasters, event companies and studios
LH2 AI Labs	Licenses directly	Recorded work, “Multimodal capture from live operations”: calls, meetings and floor video
Miro Advisory	Introducer; does not buy data	Meeting transcripts among communication systems
Polyshares	Licenses directly	A meeting-recordings category, “Recorded video meetings and their transcripts”, with export guides for Zoom, Teams recordings and Google Meet
Troveo	Licensing agent	Zoom, listed under chat and messaging rather than as recordings (source)

None of these providers publishes a price or terms specific to recordings; the video and audio list covers programs built for media archives.

Do we still have them, and where are they?

Possibly not. A recording belongs to the account of whoever organized or started it, and each platform has its own clock:

Platform	Where recordings are kept	What removes them
Teams meetings	The organizer’s OneDrive; for channel meetings, the channel’s SharePoint site (Microsoft)	Expiry after 120 days by default; in OneDrive, expired files sit in the recycle bin for 93 days and then “cannot be recovered”
Zoom cloud recordings	The host’s Zoom account	An auto-delete policy, if the account set one (Zoom); deleted files stay in trash for 30 days (Zoom)
Zoom local recordings	The host’s computer, by default in Documents\Zoom (Zoom)	Whatever happens to that computer
Google Meet	“the meeting organizer’s Google Drive”	The organizer’s Drive settings and account

When the organizer leaves, the recordings go with their account. Zoom says deleting a user removes their recordings permanently unless an admin first transfers them to another user; a departed user’s OneDrive and Drive files follow the timelines on the Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace pages.

Transcripts exist only where transcription was on. For a Zoom cloud recording with audio transcription enabled, on Pro plans and up, the transcript “appears as a separate VTT file in the list of recorded meetings”; Teams transcripts expire with the recording. A transcript carries the words without the voices or faces, and it is the form Corpus and Miro Advisory name. The sample tool counts transcript files but does not read them.

Did everyone agree to be recorded, and does that cover licensing?

Those are two questions, and guests in several states make the first harder.

Recording. The federal Wiretap Act does not prohibit a participant from recording, or anyone from recording where “one of the parties to the communication has given prior consent”, unless the purpose is a criminal or tortious act (18 U.S.C. §2511(2)(d)). Some states require everyone’s consent. California’s Penal Code §632 punishes recording a confidential communication “without the consent of all parties” to it. Justia’s 50-state survey (last reviewed September 2024) calls California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania all-party consent states and Washington and Illinois “generally” so, and describes split, unclear or knowledge-only rules in Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, Montana, Nevada and Oregon (Justia). Other surveys draw the line differently: a Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer summary first posted February 20, 2014 counts twelve all-party states, adding Connecticut, Michigan, Montana and Nevada to Justia’s eight. Justia also notes the California Supreme Court’s holding that California’s rule “applies to a conversation between someone in California and someone in a one-party consent state”. On a video call with guests in several states, each participant’s location can matter.

What the platforms told people. Zoom shows app users a “recording consent disclaimer”, and its terms say “If you do not consent to being recorded, you can choose to leave the recorded session” while making the host “responsible for compliance with all Laws governing the monitoring or recording of conversations”. Phone-only callers may be asked to press 1, but “the meeting will still be recorded” if they do not. Teams shows a notice in its desktop, web and mobile apps when recording starts, and Microsoft adds: “Depending on your region, you may need everyone’s permission before you can record them”. Teams admins can also require explicit consent through a meeting policy.

Licensing. Those notices concern recording the meeting; none mentions licensing it to an AI company. Whether consent given for one use covers another depends on what people were told, and Is it legal to sell company emails and records? sets out the FTC’s warning and the documents to check.

The Otter.ai case. A class action filed in federal court in California in August 2025 alleges that Otter.ai’s notetaker recorded meeting participants who were not Otter users without their consent and used the recordings to train its AI (NPR, August 15, 2025). On August 13, 2026 the court let federal wiretap, California privacy and Illinois biometric claims proceed and dismissed others; UC Today noted the ruling “does not determine whether Otter broke the law” (August 18, 2026). The claims are allegations, and they concern a notetaker vendor’s own use, not a company licensing its archive. Ask your lawyer how the case bears on yours.

Do voices, faces and shared screens raise other issues?

Yes. A recording holds more than its transcript.

• Biometric law. Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act counts a “voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry” as a biometric identifier, excludes photographs, and says no private entity holding one “may sell, lease, trade, or otherwise profit from” it. In letting the Otter voiceprint claims proceed, IDTech Wire reported, the judge pointed to speaker tagging that builds “a speaker identification profile” (August 20, 2026). If participants were in Illinois, ask your lawyer whether your recordings, or any transcription tool you used on them, involve voiceprints.
• Shared screens. Polyshares’ Zoom guide notes that recordings include shared screens. A screen share can show a customer list, a salary spreadsheet or a client’s drawings, none of which appears in the transcript.
• What was discussed. HR meetings, board meetings and client calls under an NDA can be left out by organizer, channel or title. Polyshares’ Teams guide says “You choose which organizers and channel sites the search covers, so sensitive meetings can stay out”; leaving out records shows how to write such exclusions.

Can a buyer connect to our Zoom or Teams account instead?

Zoom’s API terms restrict it. The Zoom API License and Terms of Use, last updated July 16, 2025, bar developers from using Customer Content obtained through Zoom’s APIs “to train, develop, evaluate, test, improve, or modify artificial intelligence or machine learning models” without Zoom’s express written permission; an account owner’s explicit consent allows training only “specifically for their use”. Zoom’s terms of service (effective August 11, 2023, checked October 2026) say “You retain all ownership rights in your Customer Content”, subject to the licenses the terms grant Zoom, and that Zoom does not use customers’ audio, video or chat to train its own or third-party AI models (section 10.2).

Microsoft’s API terms for Teams are summarized on the Microsoft 365 page. Downloading recordings yourself is a different route, governed by your Zoom or Microsoft agreement. When a provider offers to connect instead, find out which app it would use and how that app’s use of your recordings fits these terms.

What could meeting recordings be worth?

None of the 25 providers publishes a price for business meeting recordings as of October 2026, and the per-minute range on the video and audio list was reported for media footage, not meetings. Polyshares asks for Zoom and Teams recordings in hours, so record them that way in your inventory, with transcripts counted separately. How much is my company’s data worth? sets out the published ranges for company records as a whole.