WORLD PREDICTA
SOURCE RIGHTS CONTROL

Connected does not mean cleared for reuse.

Every public capability must respect source-specific terms, attribution, retention and redistribution limits.

Effective and last updated: July 30, 2026
21SOURCES CONTROLLED
10REVIEW
5LICENSE REQUIRED
2BLOCKED

Rights ledger

This is an operational safeguard, not legal advice or a declaration that a source has approved commercial use.

APPROVEDU.S. Federal Register API
Federal rules, proposed rules and notices

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Normalized factual metadata, short official abstract and direct official-document link with publication and effective dates.

RIGHTS GATE: Retain official attribution and document links; review separately marked or linked third-party material.

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APPROVEDUK Parliament Bills API
Westminster bills and stages

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Normalized bill title, chamber, stage, update time and official bill link with required attribution.

RIGHTS GATE: Attribute: Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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APPROVEDUNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database
Asylum applications and refugee nowcasts

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Aggregate normalized values, period, geography, methodology boundary and official source links.

RIGHTS GATE: Attribute UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database and retain the CC BY 4.0 notice and methodology link.

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REVIEWOfficial state legislature feeds
U.S. state bills, votes and inventories

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Official source links and bounded factual coverage receipts for Texas, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Kansas.

RIGHTS GATE: Complete and retain a per-state terms review before expanding beyond link and factual metadata display.

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APPROVEDUCDP Candidate Events
Monthly geocoded organized-violence events

PUBLIC RESEARCH: A compact normalized snapshot of factual fields and candidate groupings with dataset version, release month, event-date bounds, coordinate precision, CC BY 4.0 attribution, required citation and adaptation notice.

RIGHTS GATE: Retain UCDP attribution, dataset version, CC BY 4.0 link, Hegre et al. (2020) citation/DOI and WorldPredicta adaptation notice; review each new version before expanding fields or redistribution behavior.

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REVIEWWorld Bank APIs
Country metadata and development indicators

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Linked observations with source period, retrieval time and attribution.

RIGHTS GATE: Complete a written review of dataset-level terms, attribution and redistribution scope before public for-profit reuse.

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REVIEWiso-3166 and country-data-list
Static country codes, currencies, languages and time zones

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Version-pinned MIT-licensed reference data enriches the country registry without adding a live dependency.

RIGHTS GATE: Retain package licenses and notices, verify upstream reference-data provenance, and document the pinned versions in the software bill of materials.

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REVIEWIMF Data API and PortWatch
Inflation and shipping-flow measurements

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Linked, transformed indicators and strategic-passage summaries.

RIGHTS GATE: Document the commercial display, caching, attribution and derived-work permissions for each IMF dataset.

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LICENSE REQUIREDOpenSky, Airplanes.live and PocketWorld
Community aircraft positions

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Prototype public research view with explicit coverage and licensing warnings.

RIGHTS GATE: Contract every aircraft feed used by the public product under written commercial terms and capacity guarantees.

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LICENSE REQUIREDADS-B Exchange
Enhanced aircraft positions

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Connector remains inactive unless licensed credentials are present.

RIGHTS GATE: Activate only under the provider plan that covers the product, traffic volume and redistribution behavior.

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BLOCKEDBarentsWatch AIS and future global AIS provider
Individual vessel positions and voyages

PUBLIC RESEARCH: No global vessel position is inferred. Aggregate PortWatch routes remain the fallback.

RIGHTS GATE: Contract a permitted global AIS feed, verify geographic scope and run a persistent collector before publicly displaying global tracks, destinations or ETAs.

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REVIEWU.S. Maritime Administration advisories
Official maritime security advisories

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Current advisory title, status, effective and expiry dates, named passage and official source link are displayed from a protected durable snapshot.

RIGHTS GATE: Document the reuse basis for federal advisory metadata and review every attachment or marked third-party item before retaining or redistributing it.

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BLOCKEDMobility Database, Transitland and producer GTFS/GTFS-Realtime feeds
Rail and public-transit schedules, service updates and vehicle positions

PUBLIC RESEARCH: No global live-train layer is active. Feed discovery alone is not treated as permission to cache or redistribute producer data.

RIGHTS GATE: Secure catalog access, record every producer's commercial-use and redistribution terms, and operate a durable GTFS-Realtime collector before claiming live rail coverage.

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REVIEWNASA EONET, USGS and GDACS
Natural hazards and disaster alerts

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Source-linked event markers with observation time and no invented impact estimate.

RIGHTS GATE: Record attribution, caching, logo and redistribution rules for each feed before packaging persistent public alerts.

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LICENSE REQUIREDOpen-Meteo
Current weather and recent climate context

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Selected-location research markers with model and coverage caveats.

RIGHTS GATE: Use a provider plan and service terms that explicitly cover commercial traffic, caching and availability needs.

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LICENSE REQUIREDWorld News API and direct source network
Headline discovery

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Manual request-time headline, short summary and source-link display with no application cache or retention; no full article republishing.

RIGHTS GATE: Obtain a written custom agreement permitting storage, caching, derived data and public for-profit display; a vendor plan alone does not clear durable publication. Complete a publisher-by-publisher link and excerpt review.

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REVIEWGDELT DOC 2.0
Multilingual headline-link discovery

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Bounded article-list metadata with original title, publisher domain, source link, language, source country, observation time and GDELT attribution; no full publisher article republication.

RIGHTS GATE: Retain GDELT credit and link, preserve the publisher-rights boundary, and review any new stored field or derived text before expanding beyond link metadata.

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REVIEWWikipedia, Hacker News and Mastodon
Public attention signals

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Aggregate ranks, counts, titles and source links with platform and language caveats.

RIGHTS GATE: Document platform API, content, attribution, deletion and commercial-use rules before persistent alerts or historical redistribution.

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LICENSE REQUIREDOpenStreetMap
Basemap geography

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Attributed map tiles in the public research interface.

RIGHTS GATE: Use a production tile provider or self-hosted stack with capacity and terms appropriate for commercial traffic while preserving ODbL attribution.

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REVIEWFAO Food Price Index
Historical forecast diagnostic

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Official historical series used for a reproducible component backtest with citation.

RIGHTS GATE: Confirm attribution and derived-model display terms before the diagnostic becomes a production model input.

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REVIEWOrama
Local evidence retrieval software

PUBLIC RESEARCH: Bundled in-process search dependency; it is not an evidence source.

RIGHTS GATE: Retain the Apache-2.0 notices and software bill-of-materials entry.

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Hard rule

No “review,” “license required,” or “blocked” feed is automatically promoted into a public feature. See the data coverage register for connected versus planned feeds and the launch-readiness ledger for the product-level decision.