WORLD PREDICTA
COMMERCIAL SOURCE CONTROL

Connected does not mean cleared for sale.

Every paid capability must pass a source-specific rights review. Until then, the launch ledger keeps the paywall off.

Effective and last updated: July 30, 2026
13SOURCES CONTROLLED
6REVIEW
5LICENSE REQUIRED
2BLOCKED

Rights ledger

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

REVIEWWorld Bank APIs
Country metadata and development indicators

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

PAID GATE: Complete a written review of dataset-level terms, attribution and redistribution scope before paid reuse.

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REVIEWIMF Data API and PortWatch
Inflation and shipping-flow measurements

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

PAID 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.

PAID GATE: Replace or contract every aircraft feed used by a paid plan 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.

PAID 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.

PAID GATE: Contract a commercially permitted global AIS feed, verify geographic scope and run a persistent collector before selling tracks, destinations or ETAs.

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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.

PAID GATE: Secure catalog access, record every producer's commercial-use and redistribution terms, and operate a durable GTFS-Realtime collector before selling 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.

PAID GATE: Record attribution, caching, logo and redistribution rules for each feed before packaging alerts as a paid feature.

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LICENSE REQUIREDOpen-Meteo
Current weather and recent climate context

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

PAID 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: Headline, short summary and source link only; no full article republishing.

PAID GATE: Restore a provider plan that covers paid use and complete a publisher-by-publisher link, excerpt and caching review.

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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.

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

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LICENSE REQUIREDOpenStreetMap
Basemap geography

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

PAID 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.

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

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REVIEWOrama
Local evidence retrieval software

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

PAID 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 paid plan. See the launch-readiness ledger for the product-level decision.