USA Today Opens APIs To Commercial Use
News organizations collect lots of data, and are increasingly allowing the public to access that data via APIs. Free access to the APIs is seen by news organizations as a form of serving the public’s interest.
But, there’s been a catch: The usage of almost all of these APIs is restricted to noncommercial use.
For example, the terms of use of The New York Times‘ developer network (which contains some of the most robust APIs around) states:
You shall not … use the NYT APIs for any commercial purpose or in any product or service that competes with products or services offered by NYT.
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