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Terms of use for application programming interfaces (TOS for APIs)

By Kristopher Nelson in the Spring of 2010

Terms of use are critical. Most allow for the revocation of access if the API provider decides to do so. If that happens to you, you may have little recourse. Make sure you understand the terms before you build a business on top of someone else’s API.

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Computer Programming and the Law: A New Research Agenda

By Kristopher Nelson in the Spring of 2009

Image by PanelSwitchman via Flickr Computer Programming and the Law: A New Research Agenda | Freedom to Tinker: By my best estimate, at least twenty different law professors on the tenure track at American law schools once held a job … Continued

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