Can you sell your Linear data for AI training?

Linear's terms let the account holder export its own data, and we found no clause in its API terms about training AI. The content itself carries low rights risk. This is research from public sources, not legal advice.

The holder's own export
The holder can export it
Data pulled through its API
No AI clause found
Rights risk of the content
Low

What a holder should know

Contractually clean. Content is engineering tickets: product roadmap, bug reports that may quote customers, and employee names. The contract has no post-termination retrieval window, so export before cancelling. Linear owns aggregated and anonymised Service Data, which is not part of what the customer can license.

Getting your own data out

Not verified (Linear offers CSV export of issues and a public GraphQL API).

Linear Terms of Service (Effective date: June 09, 2026), 10.2: "Except for the limited rights and licenses granted in this Agreement, Customer will own all right, title and interest in and to the User Submissions and there are no implied licenses under this Agreement." 5.3: "Within thirty (30) days of termination of this Agreement for cause, upon Customer's request following termination, or if Customer deletes its workspace within the Service, Linear will delete Customer's User Information, including passwords and all related information, files, and User Submissions".

Apps that use its API

No clause found barring a customer from using its own User Submissions for AI training. Restriction (g): customer may not "use or access the Service to build or support and/or assist a third party in building or supporting products or services competitive to the Service". AI features are governed by a separate AI Services Addendum (not read).

The sources, word for word

  • Linear Terms of Service(effective 2026-06-09)
    “Customer will own all right, title and interest in and to the User Submissions and there are no implied licenses under this Agreement.”

Research from public sources, read on the day shown. It is not legal advice: a sale needs a lawyer who has read the records and the contracts.

What Linear holds that buyers ask for

  • Project and ticket histories

    Jira, Linear, ServiceNow or Asana records that show how work moved from request to done

Who buys it

  • Mode (BizBuyData)

    "The operating history of companies and nonprofits could be worth $100K-$5M."

  • Handshake AI

    "Payouts range from $100K to $4M." Its estimator shows $383,083 to $896,969 for 100 employees and 10 years.

  • Polyshares

    Typical licences of $100K to $2M, sometimes more. Its track record page lists four anonymous licences from $110,000 to $450,000.

  • micro1

    $100k+ for a qualified partnership, $500k+ for large or multi-team datasets, $1M+ for highly unique data.

  • Scale AI

    "$10K–$1M+ illustrative value per data partnership", scaling with how often data is delivered.

  • SuperAnnotate

    "Indicative $100K – $1M+", priced on rarity, depth and exclusivity.

Every buyer and its published terms

What your Linear records are worth, and what to settle before anyone sees them.

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Rights and law

  1. Start hereCan this data legally be sold or licensed for AI training?Privacy law, copyright and fair use, software vendors' terms, de-identification, bankruptcy sales and what a licence agreement holds.
  2. GuideIs It Legal to Sell Customer Data? A US Guide for AI TrainingOften yes, but through layers: your privacy policy, the FTC Act, state and sector laws, and customer contracts. De-identified records are the main lawful path.
  3. GuideFair Use and AI Training: What US Courts Have RuledUS courts are split: training was fair use in Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta, not in Thomson Reuters v. Ross, and pirated copies lost. Where each stands.
  4. GuideIs It Legal to Scrape Data for AI Training? (US Law, 2026)Scraping public pages is rarely a federal crime after Van Buren and hiQ, but contract, copyright, anti-circumvention and privacy law apply. Resale is hard.
  5. GuideCan a Company License Employee Emails and Slack for AI Training?Usually yes for business records the company controls, but only after it handles monitoring notices, third parties in the messages, privilege and vendor terms.
  6. GuideSelling Customer Data in Bankruptcy: Section 363 ExplainedA bankrupt company can sell customer data only if the sale fits its privacy policy, or a court-appointed privacy ombudsman reports and the judge approves it.
  7. GuideWhat Is a Data Licensing Agreement? The Terms for AI TrainingA data licensing agreement lets a buyer use data for set purposes while the holder keeps ownership. Each clause AI buyers ask for, and where holders stand.
  8. GuideHIPAA De-Identification for AI Training: Safe Harbor vs Expert DeterminationHealth data leaves HIPAA only through Safe Harbor (remove 18 identifiers) or an expert's determination of very small risk. How each works for AI training.
  9. GuideLicensing Company Data for AI Training Under the GDPR (2026)Yes, an EU, UK or Swiss company can license its records for AI training, if it has a lawful basis, tells people, drops sensitive data and uses a transfer tool.
  10. GuideSelling Data for AI Training: Privacy Law by CountryOutside the EU and UK, licensing records for AI training mostly needs consent or anonymisation, and a contract or consent to send them to a US buyer.
  11. RegisterLawsuits and rulingsEvery case, ruling and settlement over training data.
  12. RegisterLicence termsWhat buyers ask for in a licence, and where holders stand.
  13. PageDe-identification standardOur rules for removing people from records, each with its source.
  14. RegisterAI crawler censusA daily census of robots.txt across the most visited sites.

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