Public Sharing Rules

INTRODUCTION
JurisNote LLC ("JurisNote," "we," "us," "our") provides the JurisNote website, application, and related services (the "Service"). These Public Sharing Rules explain the sharing levels available on the Service, what becomes visible to whom at each level, what you must certify before publishing, how we review publishes, what controls you keep over your material, and — most importantly — what withdrawing a published item does and does not undo.

These Public Sharing Rules are incorporated by reference into the JurisNote Terms of Service at /terms and supplement the Acceptable Use Policy at /acceptable-use. Capitalized terms not defined here have the meaning given in the Terms of Service. "User Content" has the meaning given in the User-Generated Content Policy at /legal/user-generated-content.

Read these alongside:
• User-Generated Content Policy — /legal/user-generated-content (ownership, licenses, prohibited content, moderation, deletion)
• Copyright Policy — /legal/copyright (what you may lawfully share from casebooks, supplements, bar-prep material and professor materials)
• Academic Integrity Policy — /legal/academic-integrity (honor codes, exam material, graded work)
• DMCA Policy — /legal/dmca and the public notice form at /legal/dmca-notice
• Repeat Infringer Policy — /legal/repeat-infringer
• Privacy Policy — /privacy

THE SHARING LEVELS
The Service offers five distinct levels of exposure. They are not interchangeable. Know which one you are choosing.

2.1 Private
The default. Only you can see the item. No other user, no search engine, no unauthenticated visitor. Career-tracker records and wellness check-ins are private and should stay private — see Section 11.

2.2 Link-shared (share code — treat as a bearer token)
Every deck receives an automatically generated share code when it is created. A share link is a bearer token: anyone who has the link can open the item, whether or not they have a JurisNote account, whether or not you meant to give it to them. Links get forwarded, pasted into group chats, screenshotted and indexed by anything that crawls the page they were posted on. There is no per-person control on a share link. If you would not be comfortable with an item reaching a stranger, do not put it behind a share link. If a link has spread further than you intended, delete or replace the item — see Section 9.

2.3 Group-shared
Visible to the members of a study group you share it with. Membership changes over time; a member who joins after you share can still see what you shared, and a member who later leaves the group may already have copied the item if you allowed copying.

2.4 School- or organization-scoped
Visible to users within your law school or institutional organization on the Service. This is narrower than public but wider than a group — it typically includes classmates, and may include faculty or staff who hold accounts under the same institution. Institutional publishes scoped to a school may require approval by a school administrator before becoming visible to the school. See Section 12.

2.5 Public Library publishing
Visible to the entire internet. This is the widest level and is the subject of most of these Rules. Publishing to the Library is open to every authenticated user and is not restricted to any paid Subscription Plan.

THE LIBRARY AND CREATOR PROFILES ARE PUBLIC AND INDEXED
Understand this clearly before you publish anything.

The public Library at /library and creator profiles at /creator/[id] are publicly accessible, require no login, and are indexed by search engines. Material you publish there can be found by a Google search, viewed by anyone, archived by third-party crawlers and web archives outside our control, and read by your professors, your classmates, your school's administration, bar admission authorities, and current or prospective employers.

When you publish an item, the following become publicly visible:
• the item's title;
• its description;
• its tags;
• its subject;
• its course;
• its jurisdiction;
• your display name and avatar, unless you publish anonymously under Section 8;
• view and download counts; and
• ratings and reviews the item receives.

The item's substantive content is visible according to the visibility and per-item controls you set under Section 7. Your creator profile aggregates the items you have published under your name, together with your profile biography and avatar.

We cannot remove your published material from third-party search indexes, caches, mirrors or web archives. Unpublishing removes it from JurisNote; it does not reach anything that has already copied it. See Section 9.

PRE-PUBLICATION CERTIFICATION
Before an item can be published, you must complete an on-screen certification. In it you confirm, at minimum, that you have the rights to the material, that it does not infringe anyone's copyright, that it does not contain examination material obtained in breach of an honor code or a non-disclosure obligation, that it does not contain another person's confidential or personal information, and that it complies with these Rules, the User-Generated Content Policy and the Acceptable Use Policy.

The certification is a legal representation. Do not click through it. We record it in an append-only record that stores the version of the certification text you were shown, the date and time, your IP address and your user agent. That record is evidence of what you certified and when.

A completed certification is valid for one hour. If more than an hour passes before you publish, you will be asked to certify again — this is deliberate, so that the representation is contemporaneous with the publish.

Certifying falsely is a violation of these Rules and of the Terms of Service, and may expose you to liability to the rights holder as well as to enforcement action by us under Section 14.

REQUIRED METADATA
Every published item must carry:
• a subject; and
• a description of at least ten characters.

Metadata is not decoration. Other students decide what to study from your title, description, subject, course and jurisdiction. A brief that states Georgia law, labeled as though it were general, is actively harmful to the person relying on it. Label your jurisdiction and course accurately, and say in your description what the material covers and what it does not.

RISK SCORING AND ADMIN REVIEW
Every publish is automatically risk-scored.

• Low risk. The item is published immediately and becomes visible in the Library.
• Medium or high risk. The item is routed to a human administrator review queue and does not become publicly visible until an administrator approves it. Review takes time; plan for it rather than republishing repeatedly.

An administrator may approve the publish, reject it, or approve it with a request that you change the material or its metadata. Rejections are recorded. Repeated high-risk publishes, or attempts to evade scoring by splitting or relabeling material, may result in suspension of your publishing privileges under Section 14.

Risk scoring and review are risk-management tools. They are not a warranty. Approval by an administrator does not mean we have verified your rights to the material, checked it for accuracy, or accepted any liability for it. Responsibility for what you publish remains yours.

PER-ITEM AUTHOR CONTROLS
You control the terms on which others may use each item you publish. These settings are per-item, and you can change them at any time going forward — but changes are not retroactive against copies and forks already made (Section 9).

• Visibility. Which sharing level from Section 2 applies to the item.
• Allow copy. Whether other users may reproduce the item into their own account. Off means no copying through the Service.
• Allow fork. Whether other users may take a copy and modify and build upon it. Forks and copies are tracked as lineage back to your original.
• Allow comments. Whether other users may comment on the item.
• License. A license statement of your choosing that governs downstream use of the item, in addition to the baseline study license described in the User-Generated Content Policy.
• Exam prohibited. A flag marking the item as not to be used during an examination or graded assessment. Use it whenever the material would be off-limits under an honor code. See the Academic Integrity Policy at /legal/academic-integrity.
• Attribution required. A flag requiring users who copy or fork the item to retain the attribution the Service displays.

Users who copy or fork your item must honor these settings. Stripping attribution when attribution is required, or using an item flagged exam-prohibited during a graded assessment, is a violation of these Rules and may also violate your school's honor code.

ANONYMOUS PUBLISHING — AND ITS HONEST LIMIT
You may publish an item anonymously. Anonymous publishing hides your display name and avatar from other users on the item and in the Library.

Anonymous publishing is pseudonymous to the public. It is not anonymous to JurisNote. We continue to store the author identifier for the item. We can and do associate anonymous publishes with the publishing account for moderation, copyright enforcement, compliance recordkeeping, and response to lawful legal process. Do not treat anonymous publishing as a shield for material you would not stand behind — it is not one.

Anonymous publishing also does not reduce your obligations. The certification in Section 4, the metadata requirement in Section 5, risk scoring in Section 6, and every prohibition in the User-Generated Content Policy apply identically to anonymous publishes.

WITHDRAWAL — WHAT UNPUBLISHING DOES AND DOES NOT DO
You can withdraw any item you own at any time. Withdrawal is instant and free. There is no fee, no waiting period, and no approval required to unpublish your own material.

WHAT WITHDRAWAL DOES NOT DO — READ THIS BEFORE YOU PUBLISH:

Unpublishing does NOT delete or recall copies or forks that other users have already made. Those copies live in those users' accounts. They persist independently of your original. They survive your unpublishing, your deletion of the original, and the deletion of your entire account. We do not reach into other users' accounts to delete their copies, and you cannot require us to.

Consequently:
• If you publish an item with "allow copy" or "allow fork" enabled, assume that any copy made during that window is permanent and beyond your control.
• If material must not circulate, do not publish it in the first place. Withdrawal is not a remedy — it is a way to stop further spread from that point forward.
• Turning off "allow copy" later stops new copies. It does not affect copies already made.
• Search engines, caches, third-party crawlers and web archives may retain what they indexed while the item was public. We cannot remove those.
• Screenshots, downloads and re-uploads by others are outside the Service entirely.

The narrow exception: if a copy exists because someone infringed your copyright — for example, a user re-published your material as their own outside the copy and fork mechanism — you may submit a takedown notice under the DMCA Policy at /legal/dmca, using the public form at /legal/dmca-notice. That is a rights-based remedy against an infringing copy, not a general recall of licensed copies. Copies made with the permissions you enabled are licensed, and the license for those copies is irrevocable, as stated in the User-Generated Content Policy at /legal/user-generated-content.

If you published something containing another person's confidential or personal information, or exam material you should not have shared, unpublish immediately and then email support@jurisnote.net — we can help with what remains on the Service and advise on what we cannot reach.

WHAT YOU MAY AND MAY NOT PUBLISH
Everything prohibited by the User-Generated Content Policy at /legal/user-generated-content is prohibited here, and the stakes are higher because publishing is public. In particular, do not publish:

• verbatim or near-verbatim casebook, hornbook, treatise, supplement or commercial-outline text;
• commercial bar-prep material of any kind;
• your professor's slides, handouts, distributed outlines, problem sets or model answers;
• class or lecture recordings, or transcripts of them, made or shared without the permission required by your instructor, your school, or applicable recording-consent law;
• examination questions, fact patterns, model answers or rubrics obtained in breach of an honor code, exam instructions or a non-disclosure obligation, including reconstructions from memory, and including secured bar-examination material;
• another person's confidential or personal information, including classmates' names paired with grades or performance, and client, clinic or externship material;
• unlabeled AI output presented as verified analysis, or AI material with its labeling stripped; or
• anything unlawful, infringing, harassing, impersonating, or malicious.

What you generally may publish: your own notes, outlines, briefs and summaries written in your own words; flashcards you wrote; the text of judicial opinions, statutes and regulations, which are not themselves copyrightable, together with your own commentary; and material you have express written permission to share. The Copyright Policy at /legal/copyright gives concrete, worked guidance on where these lines fall.

NEVER PUBLISH CAREER OR WELLNESS DATA
Career-tracker records (job applications, resumes, employer contacts, interviews, offers) and wellness records (mood check-ins, trusted contacts) are private by default and are not intended for any form of sharing. They contain your home address, contact details, employment and salary history, health-adjacent information about you, and other people's identifying information. Do not publish them, link-share them, or share them to a group or school. See Section 7 of the User-Generated Content Policy at /legal/user-generated-content.

SCHOOL-SCOPED PUBLISHING AND ADMIN APPROVAL
If you belong to a law school or institutional organization on the Service, you may publish material scoped to that institution. Institutional publishes may require approval by a school administrator before they become visible to the school; whether approval is required, and who reviews it, is set by your institution, not by JurisNote.

School administrators can see material published to their institution and act on it under their own policies. Institutions may also enable school-level feature controls, including an AI kill switch that disables AI features for their users. Public Library publishes are never subject to school-administrator approval — a school administrator does not gate what you publish to the world, and correspondingly does not vet it for you.

Your school's honor code applies to what you share with classmates regardless of what these Rules permit. Where the two differ, follow the stricter one. JurisNote does not monitor or guarantee compliance with institutional requirements.

CONDUCT EXPECTATIONS FOR PUBLIC CONTENT
Public material is a shared study resource. When you publish, comment, rate or review:

• Be accurate, and label uncertainty. Say which jurisdiction, which course and which year the material reflects. If you are unsure of a rule, say so rather than stating it flatly.
• Update or withdraw material you learn is wrong. Leaving a known-wrong outline published harms the students relying on it.
• Attribute honestly. Do not present someone else's work, or unreviewed AI output, as your own analysis. Honor attribution-required flags on material you copy or fork.
• Rate and review in good faith. Do not post retaliatory, fake or vote-manipulating ratings, and do not solicit or trade ratings.
• Be civil. No harassment, personal attacks, hate speech or targeting of individuals in items, comments or reviews.
• No promotion or spam. Do not use published items, descriptions, comments or your profile to advertise services, sell outlines off-platform, recruit for other services, or drive traffic elsewhere.
• Do not give legal advice. Published material is study material for law students, not advice to anyone about a real matter.
• Do not evade enforcement. Do not republish material that has been removed, and do not use a second account to publish while your privileges are suspended.

Reminder on accuracy for readers: nothing in the Library is verified by JurisNote. Check the primary source before you rely on anything you find there.

REPORTING, ENFORCEMENT AND SUSPENSION OF PUBLISHING PRIVILEGES
Anyone can report a published item, including people without a JurisNote account — the deck and card reporting flow requires an email address but not a login. Report categories include copyright infringement, copied professor material, copied textbook or supplement material, copied bar-prep material, content copied from another user, academic integrity concerns, inaccurate or misleading content, offensive or abusive content, and other. Copyright takedowns follow the DMCA Policy at /legal/dmca via the public form at /legal/dmca-notice; counter-notice and restoration are both supported.

We may unpublish, restrict or remove published material, with or without prior notice, where we reasonably believe it violates these Rules, the User-Generated Content Policy, the Acceptable Use Policy, the Terms of Service or applicable law. Administrator actions are recorded in an append-only, hash-chained moderation audit log.

Publishing privileges can be suspended. If your public-sharing privileges are suspended, the Service refuses your publish attempts at the server — this is not a client-side restriction and cannot be worked around. Suspension may follow repeated valid takedowns, false certifications, evasion of risk review, or serious conduct violations.

Repeat copyright infringement escalates on a fixed schedule: one valid takedown results in a warning; two result in temporary suspension of public-sharing privileges; three or more result in permanent termination of the account. We maintain a per-user compliance record tracking valid takedown count, report count, sharing suspension status and termination recommendation. Full detail is in the Repeat Infringer Policy at /legal/repeat-infringer.

To appeal a removal or a suspension, email support@jurisnote.net with the item, the date and why you believe the decision was incorrect. For copyright removals you may instead file a counter-notice under /legal/dmca.

PAID AND MONETIZED SHARING
Paid distribution of Library content is not currently available. There is no purchase flow for published material, no creator earnings, and no payout mechanism. Do not publish material in expectation of revenue, and do not use the Service to solicit off-platform payment for material you publish here. If we introduce paid distribution, we will publish the terms before it launches.

NO WARRANTY; RESPONSIBILITY REMAINS YOURS
We provide the Library, sharing features and review processes "as is." Risk scoring, administrator review and moderation reduce risk; they do not verify your rights, your accuracy, or your compliance with any honor code, and they create no obligation on our part to detect violations. You remain responsible for what you publish, and you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless JurisNote and its affiliates, officers, directors and employees from third-party claims arising out of your published material, on the terms set out in Section 8 of the Terms of Service at /terms.

ELIGIBILITY
You must be at least 16 years old to publish or share material through the Service, consistent with Section 13 of the User-Generated Content Policy at /legal/user-generated-content.

【COUNSEL DECISION: This mirrors the age clause in the User-Generated Content Policy and is likewise unenforced in product — the Service has no age gate, no birthdate collection and no parental-consent flow. Because publishing exposes a user's display name and avatar on a public, search-indexed page, the minor-exposure risk is materially higher here than for private use. Counsel should decide whether minors, if permitted to hold accounts at all, should be blocked from public Library publishing and from public creator profiles pending an age gate.】

CONTACT
For questions about publishing, sharing, withdrawals, removals or appeals: support@jurisnote.net

For copyright, DMCA notices, counter-notices and other legal matters: info@jurisnote.net

JurisNote LLC, Macon, Georgia, USA. These Public Sharing Rules are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, with exclusive venue in the state or federal courts located in Bibb County, Georgia, as provided in the Terms of Service.

CHANGES TO THESE RULES
We may update these Public Sharing Rules from time to time. Each version carries an Effective Date and a Last Updated date at the top. When we make material changes — for example, changing what a sharing level exposes, changing the certification requirement, or changing how withdrawal works — we will notify you by email and/or in-app notice before the change takes effect, and where a change materially expands what becomes public we may require you to re-accept these Rules before publishing again. Non-material changes, such as clarifications and corrected cross-references, take effect on posting. Continued use of the sharing and publishing features after the effective date of a change constitutes acceptance of the revised Rules. Prior versions are available on request from support@jurisnote.net.