Freebase API Terms and Conditions

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• All content on Google Freebase must be compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution Only (CC-BY) license, except for Media Files which have specified license terms.

• Code provided to Google Freebase must be compatible with the BSD License.

• By providing Data, Schema, or Descriptions, you grant permission for them to be used under the CC-BY license.

• When providing Media Files, you must specify the license terms and warrant that you have the rights to grant usage permission under those terms.

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Last modified: December 1, 2011

1. License

   You must only provide content or code that is compatible with the following licenses:

   1. For all content categories made available on Google Freebase (Data, Schema, Descriptions, or Media Files): compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution Only (CC-BY) license, or in the case of Media Files only, compatible with one of the license terms specified in the upload interface of Freebase.
   2. For code: compatible with the BSD License.

2. Permissions

   By providing Data, Schema or Descriptions to Google Freebase, you are granting permission to Google and others to access and use them under the terms and conditions of the CC-BY license, including attributions requirements that may apply.

3. Media Files

   When you provide Media Files to Google Freebase, you must specify the license terms which apply to such Media File. By doing so, you are representing and warranting that you have the rights to provide the Media File to Google Freebase and to grant permission to Google and others to access and use the Media Files under the license terms which you had specified, including attribution requirements that may apply.