I'm primarily wondering if using news articles in my app might qualify as fair use, or at least not be a very attractive target for news outlets' legal teams.
I've looked at newscred.com, but they don't disclose pricing, so I don't know if I can be profitable if I use them.
Based on (http://www.nationalforensicleague.org/aspx/nav.aspx?navid=37) there are ~3000 schools that do speech and debate, probably around 2/3 do the event that could necessitate my app (extemporaneous speech). I should not expect to be able to collect payments from students. Based on what schools already pay for paper publications, and similar competing services, I expect to charge anywhere from $40 to $100 per school per year. This translates to a potential market of ~80 to 120k.
My current plan is to respond to cease and desist letters by remove the respective feed from my articles database.
Given the above, does that seem like a reasonable plan? Particularly, for anyone involved in the education sector, is yearly subscription an acceptable business model?(www.extempengine.com if you're wondering)