Copyright Policy

INTRODUCTION
JurisNote LLC ("JurisNote," "we," "us," "our") provides the JurisNote website, application, and related services (the "Service") to law students and other legal-education users. This Copyright Policy explains who owns what on the Service, what license you give us when you upload, what you may and may not upload, and what happens when someone infringes.

Law school study material is unusually copyright-sensitive. Most of what a law student reads every day — casebooks, commercial outlines, bar-prep lectures, professor slides — is protected by copyright owned by someone other than the student. This policy is written to give you concrete, usable guidance about that, not boilerplate. Read Section 5 carefully; it is the part that most often matters.

This Copyright Policy supplements, and is incorporated into, our Terms of Service at /terms. It works together with:

• DMCA Policy at /legal/dmca — the takedown and counter-notice procedure.
• Repeat Infringer Policy at /legal/repeat-infringer — the consequences of repeated valid takedowns.
• Acceptable Use Policy at /acceptable-use — the broader conduct rules.
• Academic Integrity Policy at /legal/academic-integrity — school-rule and honor-code obligations, which are separate from copyright.

If this policy conflicts with the Terms of Service on a copyright question, this policy controls.

DEFINITIONS
• "Content" has the meaning given in the Terms of Service: any uploads, notes, flashcards, documents, messages, images, audio, video, or other files provided by you.
• "User Content" means Content you create, upload, or submit to the Service.
• "Published Content" means User Content you have made visible to others through the public Library at /library, a creator profile, a share link, a study group, or an institutional share.
• "Third-Party Material" means any material in which someone other than you owns copyright or other rights.
• "Library" means the public, searchable collection of Published Content at /library.

YOU OWN YOUR CONTENT
You retain ownership of all User Content you create and submit. Uploading Content to the Service does not transfer copyright to us, and we do not claim authorship of your work.

You are responsible for your User Content. By submitting it, you represent and warrant that:

• you created it, or you have all rights and permissions necessary to submit it and to allow the uses described in Section 4;
• it does not infringe any copyright, trademark, trade secret, publicity, privacy, or other right of any third party;
• its submission and use on the Service does not breach any contract you are bound by, including a casebook or database license, a bar-prep course enrollment agreement, a course syllabus restriction, or a school policy; and
• if you have made it Published Content, you have the right to let other users view it and — where you have enabled copying or forking — to copy and fork it.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold JurisNote harmless from third-party claims arising out of your User Content, as set out in the Terms of Service.

THE LICENSE YOU GRANT US
By submitting User Content, you grant JurisNote a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable (only to our service providers, and only to operate the Service) license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, index, reformat, and display that User Content for the purpose of operating and providing the Service to you.

That license specifically includes:

• storing and backing up your Content on our infrastructure and that of our hosting and storage providers;
• generating derived technical representations — including vector embeddings — so that search, retrieval, and AI features work on your own material;
• sending your Content to the AI processors described in our AI Usage & Disclosure Policy at /ai-usage for generation, transcription, and search functions you invoke;
• producing transcripts, summaries, extracted rules, and similar outputs at your request; and
• displaying your Content to the audience you have chosen — only you, a study group, your institution, a share-link holder, or the public Library.

The license is limited in these ways:

• It exists to run the Service. We do not use it to sell your Content or to license it to unrelated third parties.
• We do not use your User Content to train AI models. No such processing path exists in the Service.
• The license is revocable. It ends for a given item when you delete it, subject to the timing in Section 4.1.
• We may use anonymized, aggregated statistics derived from Content (for example, how many users study a subject) without identifying you.

If you make Content public, you additionally grant other users the specific permissions you enable on that item — such as allow-copy and allow-fork — and you grant us the right to display it publicly and to allow search engines to index it. See the Public Sharing Rules at /legal/public-sharing-rules.

4.1 When the license ends

Deleting Content moves it to trash; it is permanently deleted after 30 days. Our license to that item ends when deletion completes, except for backup copies that expire on our ordinary backup cycle and for records we must retain by law.

One consequence you must understand before you publish: unpublishing is instant and free, but it does not delete or recall copies or forks that other users already made. Those copies exist independently in those users' accounts and will remain there. If your Content contains anything you may later want to retract, do not publish it.

WHAT YOU MAY AND MAY NOT UPLOAD
This section is specific on purpose. Apply it to the actual documents on your laptop.

5.1 Your own work — allowed

Your own case briefs, outlines, flashcards, black-letter rule statements, class notes written in your own words, your practice answers, your hypotheticals, your recordings of your own voice, and your own study schedules are yours. You may upload, study, and — subject to Section 5.6 — publish them.

Writing your own outline while reading a casebook does not make the outline the casebook publisher's property. Your independent expression of legal doctrine is your work. What matters is whether you reproduced someone else's expression or created your own.

5.2 Court opinions, statutes, regulations — generally allowed

Under the government edicts doctrine, judicial opinions, statutes, regulations, and similar official legal texts issued by U.S. federal and state governments are not subject to copyright. You may generally quote or reproduce the text of a case, a statute, or a rule.

But be careful about what surrounds that text:

• Headnotes, syllabi written by a reporter or publisher, key numbers, topic classifications, editorial summaries, annotations, notes of decisions, and case-squib summaries in a commercial reporter are NOT public domain. They are original publisher content and are protected.
• Copying an opinion from a commercial database may also breach your subscription agreement with that database, even where copyright does not bar it. That is a contract question independent of copyright, and it is your responsibility.
• Some foreign and some state-adopted private standards (for example, model codes incorporated by reference) have contested status. Do not assume.

Practical rule: the judge's words are fair game; the publisher's words about the judge's words are not.

5.3 Casebooks, hornbooks, treatises, commercial supplements — NOT allowed

Do not upload, and do not publish, any of the following:

• scanned, photographed, or PDF pages of a casebook, hornbook, treatise, nutshell, or study supplement;
• the notes-and-questions material, problem sets, or author commentary from a casebook;
• substantial verbatim excerpts of editorial text, even retyped;
• a flashcard deck or outline that is substantially a transcription or close paraphrase of a commercial supplement's text or its distinctive organization and selection.

Short quotations properly attributed and used to support your own analysis are a different matter — see Section 6 — but a deck that mainly reproduces someone else's book is infringement no matter how it is formatted.

5.4 Commercial bar-prep and test-prep material — NOT allowed

Material sold by bar review and test-prep companies is aggressively protected, frequently watermarked or individually keyed to the purchaser, and is one of the most common sources of takedown notices we receive. Do not upload or publish:

• purchased or shared outlines, attack outlines, or subject summaries sold by a bar-prep or supplement company;
• lecture handouts, slide decks, or workbooks from a commercial course;
• audio or video recordings of a commercial lecture, or transcripts of them;
• licensed practice questions, released or unreleased MBE-style questions, essay prompts with model answers, or performance-test materials;
• flashcard sets that reproduce a commercial provider's question-and-answer content.

The fact that you paid for the material does not give you the right to redistribute it. A purchase is a license to use, and almost always a personal, non-transferable one.

5.5 Professor material — NOT allowed without written permission

Your professor owns the copyright in their original teaching material in most cases (subject to your school's own policies). Do not upload or publish:

• lecture slides, handouts, problem sets, or supplementary readings distributed by a professor;
• audio or video recordings of a class or lecture, unless you have your professor's permission to record and to upload it;
• a professor's past exams, model answers, or grading rubrics, unless they have been made publicly available by the professor or the school;
• course materials posted to a learning-management system.

Two separate rules apply here. Copyright is one. Your school's honor code and recording policy is the other, and it may prohibit sharing material that copyright alone would permit. Both bind you. See the Academic Integrity Policy at /legal/academic-integrity.

If you do have permission, keep the written permission. If we receive a report about that item we may ask you for it.

If you upload a lecture recording for AI transcription, the same rules apply to the recording and to the resulting transcript and notes. A transcript of an infringing recording is also infringing.

5.6 Another student's material — not yours to publish

An outline a classmate shared with you, a study group's shared document, or an outline handed down through a student organization is authored by someone else. Receiving a copy does not give you the right to republish it to the public Library or to a wider audience than the author intended.

• Do not publish another student's outline, brief, or deck under your own name.
• Do not publish it anonymously either. Anonymous publishing hides your name from other users; it does not change who owns the material and does not change your responsibility.
• If you co-authored material with classmates, get their agreement before publishing. Joint authors each have rights.
• If a fellow student allowed you to publish, note that in the item description, and keep a record of the permission.

Content you legitimately fork or copy from another JurisNote user, where that user enabled copying, is different — that permission is granted through the Service and lineage is recorded automatically.

5.7 Other material

Do not upload images, audio, video, or fonts you do not have rights to — including stock photography, album art, memes built from licensed images, or copyrighted music as background audio. Do not upload material subject to a confidentiality obligation, including client or employer material from a job, clinic, externship, or journal.

FAIR USE — READ THIS HONESTLY
Fair use is a defense, not a permission slip. It is decided case by case by a court applying the four factors in 17 U.S.C. § 107: the purpose and character of the use (including whether it is transformative and whether it is commercial), the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount and substantiality of what was used relative to the whole, and the effect on the market for the original.

Two points matter most for law students:

• "It's educational" does not decide the question. Educational purpose weighs in your favor under factor one, but courts have repeatedly held against wholesale copying of course materials by students, professors, and universities. The fourth factor — market harm — is often decisive, and study material that substitutes for a product a publisher sells is exactly the market harm publishers point to.
• Personal use is far safer than publication. Studying from a page you scanned for yourself is a much weaker case for a rightsholder than distributing that page to thousands of strangers through a public, search-indexed Library. Our rules are correspondingly stricter for Published Content than for private Content, but neither is a guarantee.

Uses that lean toward fair use include quoting a short passage to support your own analysis, with attribution; reproducing a short excerpt for genuine commentary or criticism; and creating your own original summary of doctrine that competes with nothing.

Uses that lean against fair use include reproducing an entire chapter, section, or slide deck; copying a commercial provider's question bank; and republishing material whose whole commercial value is that people pay for access to it.

We are not your lawyers. Nothing in this policy is legal advice, and no statement by JurisNote support staff is legal advice or a legal opinion about whether a specific use of yours is fair use. If your intended use is close to the line, consult a qualified attorney or your law school's library or general counsel before uploading. When in doubt, keep the material private or do not upload it.

We also reserve the right to remove material that we assess as unacceptably risky even if you believe it is fair use. That is a hosting decision, not an adjudication of your rights, and it does not by itself count as a valid takedown under the Repeat Infringer Policy.

ATTRIBUTION
Attribution is not a substitute for permission. Crediting a source does not make an infringing copy lawful. But where your use is otherwise permissible, we expect you to attribute:

• Cite the case, statute, or regulation you are stating a rule from.
• Identify the source of any quotation you include, and mark it as a quotation.
• When you fork or copy another user's Published Content, keep the attribution the original author required. Authors can set an attribution-required flag on their items, and copy lineage is recorded by the Service.
• Do not present AI-generated material as though a court or a treatise wrote it. AI output on the Service is labeled; leave the labeling intact.
• If you are unsure of the provenance of a document — for example, a hand-me-down outline of unknown authorship — do not publish it.

Stripping an author's attribution, misrepresenting authorship, or falsely claiming a work as your own is a violation of this policy and of the Acceptable Use Policy at /acceptable-use, independent of whether it is also infringement.

JURISNOTE'S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The Service itself — including its software, source code, interface design, layout, graphics, icons, text we wrote, documentation, help content, blog articles, seeded and sample content we supply, our study-method materials, and the selection and arrangement of all of it — is owned by JurisNote LLC or our licensors and is protected by copyright and other laws. The blog is authored by JurisNote and is not user-generated.

"JurisNote" and our logos, product names, and any related marks are trademarks of JurisNote LLC. You may use our name to refer to the Service accurately — for example, in a review or a class presentation. You may not use our marks in a way that suggests sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement, or as part of your own product, domain, or app name. See the No Affiliation Disclaimer at /legal/no-affiliation.

Subject to your compliance with the Terms of Service, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service. You may not copy, scrape, mirror, resell, or create derivative works from the Service or from other users' Published Content, and you may not use automated means to bulk-download the Library. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT ON MEDIA UPLOAD AND PUBLICATION CERTIFICATION
The Service records your affirmations at two points. These are real records, and we may rely on them.

9.1 Media upload acknowledgment

When you attach image, audio, or video media to a flashcard, we record a copyright acknowledgment tied to that upload. By completing it, you affirm that you own the media or have permission to use it and that its use on the Service does not infringe anyone's rights.

9.2 Deck publication certification

Before a deck can be published to the Library, you must complete an on-screen certification. Publishing is available to every authenticated user; the certification is not optional and there is no way to publish around it.

• The certification records the version of the certification text you agreed to, the date and time, your IP address, and your user agent, in an append-only record.
• A completed certification is valid for one hour. If you do not publish within that window, you will be asked to certify again.
• Publishing also requires a subject and a description of at least ten characters.
• Every publish is risk-scored. Low-risk publishes go live immediately; medium- and high-risk publishes are held for review by a human administrator before becoming visible.
• If your public-sharing privileges are suspended under the Repeat Infringer Policy, the Service will refuse the publish request regardless of certification.

Certifying falsely — for example, certifying that you own material you copied from a bar-prep provider — is a material breach of the Terms of Service and is treated as an aggravating factor in enforcement.

REPORTING INFRINGEMENT
If you believe material on the Service infringes your copyright, use the DMCA notice form at /legal/dmca-notice. The form does not require an account, so a rightsholder, publisher, professor, or their agent can submit a notice without registering.

The full notice requirements, our designated agent's contact details, the counter-notification process, and restoration timing are set out in the DMCA Policy at /legal/dmca. In summary, a notice must identify the copyrighted work and the specific material you say infringes it, give your contact information, state your good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized, state under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner, and be signed.

You may also report Published Content through the in-product report control. That flow accepts reports from people who are not JurisNote users (an email address is required, an account is not) and includes categories for copyright, copied professor material, copied textbook or supplement material, copied bar-prep material, and material copied from another user. Use the DMCA form when you are asserting a formal copyright claim; use the report control for anything else, including reports about your own course material.

Copyright and DMCA correspondence: info@jurisnote.net.

Misrepresenting infringement in a takedown notice can expose you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). Do not use notices to resolve grade disputes, group-project disagreements, or personal conflicts.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU INFRINGE
If we receive a valid takedown notice, or if we otherwise determine that material violates this policy, we may remove or disable access to it, unpublish it from the Library, notify you, and record the event on your compliance record.

Repeated infringement is handled under the Repeat Infringer Policy at /legal/repeat-infringer, which codifies fixed, published thresholds: one valid takedown results in a warning, two result in temporary suspension of your public-sharing privileges, and three or more result in permanent termination of your account. Read that policy for how a takedown is counted as "valid," how a successful counter-notice affects the count, and how to appeal.

We may also take action short of, or in addition to, that ladder — including removing individual items, restricting publishing, disabling an account, or terminating immediately in cases of egregious or willful infringement, such as bulk uploading a commercial provider's catalog. Administrator actions are written to an append-only, hash-chained moderation log.

INSTITUTIONS
If you access the Service through a law school or other institution, your institution may impose additional restrictions on what may be uploaded or shared, may require approval before content is shared within the institution, and may enable or disable AI features for its users. Institutional rules apply in addition to this policy. Public publishing to the Library is never subject to institutional approval, so institutional permission is not a defense to a copyright claim on Published Content.

AGE REQUIREMENT
You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service, and at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live) to agree to these terms on your own behalf. If you are between 13 and the age of majority, you may use the Service only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian. Copyright liability does not depend on age.

【COUNSEL DECISION: The Service currently has no age gate — there is no birthdate collection, no minimum-age check, and no parental-consent mechanism in the product. The minimum age above is a contractual term only and is unenforced technically. Counsel should decide whether to (a) require an age attestation or birthdate at registration, (b) restrict registration to verified law-school or .edu affiliation, or (c) accept the residual COPPA exposure if under-13 users are realistically possible. The stated age should be aligned across the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and this policy once decided.】

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may update this Copyright Policy. When we do, we will revise the "Last Updated" date above and keep the prior version identifiable by its effective date. If a change is material — for example, a change to the license you grant us, or to the categories of material you may upload — we will notify you by email or in-app notice before it takes effect, and we may require you to re-accept this policy before continuing to publish. Continued use of the Service after the effective date of a change constitutes acceptance of that change. Changes are not retroactive; conduct is evaluated against the version in effect at the time.

CONTACT
Copyright and DMCA matters, including takedown notices, counter-notices, and permission questions:
info@jurisnote.net

General support, account questions, and everything else:
support@jurisnote.net

JurisNote LLC
Macon, Georgia, United States

This Copyright Policy is governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, and any dispute arising under it will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Bibb County, Georgia, as provided in our Terms of Service at /terms.