Question about Terms & Conditions for Academic Research

[Julian]

Dear Guardian Open Platform Team, 

I have a question about your terms and conditions and have tried reaching out via openpl...@theguardian.com and lice...@theguardian.com. However, neither of these addresses works. 

Could you kindly let me know where I can reach out for my question on the terms and conditions?  

Kind regards,

Julian

[Guardian Open Platform API Forum]

HI Julian,

Thanks for reaching out to us, You can check terms and condition at this page: https://www.theguardian.com/help/terms-of-service
Let us know if you need any other or specific information. 

Thank you,

Guardian Open Platform API Team

[Guardian Open Platform API Forum]

Hi Julian,

The email address that you mentioned "lice...@theguardian.com" looks fine to us,  you should have got reply mentioning term and condition on your email,

Apologise if that was not the case.

Please find below further information on terms and conditions just in case if that helpful to you.

For commercial re-use of content:

Please note that all licensing requests are now processed online.
To submit your interest, please click the Reuse this content button underneath your chosen article which will direct you to our online form at https://syndication.theguardian.com/
Once your request has been submitted through the form, the Licensing team will reply with a fee quotation via email. Please note this may go into your junk/spam folder.

For non-commercial re-use of content:

Please proceed in accordance with our Open Licence terms, found at https://www.theguardian.com/info/2022/nov/01/open-licence-terms
If your request goes beyond our Open Licence terms, please submit your request via our online form at https://syndication.theguardian.com/

Let us know if you need more information.

Thank you,

Open Platform API team,

The Guardian

[Julian]

Dear Open Platform API team,

thank you so much for your reply!

I'm a PhD student researching how various actors are trying to shape the policy discourse. For this purpose, I want to use large text datasets from international news sources to perform a comparative analysis using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Discourse Network Analysis.

My question concerns Section 6(g) of the Open Platform Terms and Conditions. This section prohibits using your API content for machine learning, text mining, and data analysis purposes. Given that these methods are central to my academic work, I would like to kindly ask whether it would be possible to be granted an exemption from these specific restrictions under your terms.

I would immensely appreciate your support!

Thank you for considering my request.

Kind regards, 

Julian 

P.S. I receive the following automatic response when writing to lice...@theguardian.com: 

Mail Delivery Subsystem <mailer...@googlemail.com>

Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Address not found
Your message wasn't delivered to lice...@theguardian.com because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail.

[Julian]

Dear Open Platform API team,

Thank you for your reply! 

I am a PhD student researching how different actors are trying to influence the policy discourse. As part of my research, I am gathering text data from various international news sources to perform a comparative analysis using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Discourse Network Analysis.

My question concerns Section 6(g) of the Open Platform Terms and Conditions. This section prohibits the use of your API content for machine learning, text mining, and data analysis purposes. Given that these methods are central to my academic work, I would like to kindly ask whether it would be possible to be granted an exemption from these specific restrictions under your terms.

 

Here is an overview of how I plan to use the Guardian’s content:

• I will be performing automated Named Entity Recognition (NER) and topic modelling on Guardian (and other newspaper) articles to identify key entities (e.g., companies, policymakers, government agencies) and their influence on the policy discourse.
• My research is strictly non-commercial, and the analysis will be conducted solely for academic purposes.

I would immensely appreciate your help.

Thank you for considering my request.

Kind regards, 

Julian

P.S.

When writing to lice...@theguardian.com, I receive the following automatic response:

Mail Delivery Subsystem <mailer...@googlemail.com>

Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

Address not found

Your message wasn't delivered to lice...@theguardian.com because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail.

Guardian Open Platform API Forum schrieb am Donnerstag, 12. September 2024 um 13:25:06 UTC+2:

[Guardian Open Platform API Forum]

Hi Julian,

Thanks for waiting,
The Licensing team is inspecting your request and will get back to you soon.
For any more help, do let us know.

Thank you!

Open Platform API Team,

The Guardian