User-Generated Content 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 User-Generated Content Policy ("UGC Policy") explains who owns the material you create on the Service, what rights you give us and other users, what you may not upload, and how we handle reports, removals, appeals and deletion.

This UGC Policy is incorporated by reference into the JurisNote Terms of Service at /terms and supplements the Acceptable Use Policy at /acceptable-use. Capitalized terms not defined here have the meaning given in the Terms of Service. Where this UGC Policy and the Terms of Service conflict, the Terms of Service control.

Related policies you should read alongside this one:
• Public Sharing Rules — /legal/public-sharing-rules (how publishing, link sharing and the public Library work)
• Copyright Policy — /legal/copyright (what you may lawfully upload from casebooks, supplements, bar-prep material and lecture notes)
• DMCA Policy — /legal/dmca (the takedown and counter-notice procedure)
• Repeat Infringer Policy — /legal/repeat-infringer (consequences of repeated valid takedowns)
• Academic Integrity Policy — /legal/academic-integrity (honor codes, exams and graded work)
• AI Usage & Disclosure Policy — /ai-usage
• Privacy Policy — /privacy

WHAT COUNTS AS USER CONTENT
"User Content" means anything you create, upload, submit, store, or transmit through the Service. This includes, without limitation:

• flashcards and decks, including any image, audio or video media attached to a card;
• case briefs, including all saved versions of a brief;
• outlines, including node-level edits, votes and collaborative contributions;
• black-letter rule entries and extracted rule statements;
• lecture audio and video uploads, and the transcripts and notes generated from them;
• course documents you upload;
• comments, threaded replies and card comments;
• ratings and reviews of published items;
• practice hypotheticals and your written answers to them;
• study-group posts and study-group events;
• bundles of items you assemble;
• study schedules;
• career-tracker records, including job applications, resumes, contacts, interviews and offers;
• wellness mood check-ins and trusted-contact entries;
• your profile biography and avatar; and
• feedback, bug reports and support messages you send us.

The JurisNote blog is administrator-only. Users cannot post to the blog, and nothing in this UGC Policy grants you the ability to do so.

OWNERSHIP
You retain ownership of your User Content. JurisNote does not claim ownership of anything you create.

You are responsible for having the rights you need. By submitting User Content, you represent and warrant that you own it or have all necessary rights, licenses and permissions to submit it and to grant the licenses in Section 4, and that your User Content does not infringe, misappropriate or violate any third party's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contractual or other rights.

LICENSE YOU GRANT TO JURISNOTE
To operate the Service we need permission to handle your material. You grant JurisNote a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable (solely to our infrastructure and processing vendors) license to host, store, back up, reproduce, transmit, reformat, index, excerpt and display your User Content, and to create derived technical representations of it (including vector embeddings used for search and retrieval), in each case solely to operate, secure, support and improve the Service for you.

This license is limited in these specific ways:

• Scope. It exists only so that we can run the Service. It does not let us sell your User Content or license it to unrelated third parties.
• Duration. It lasts while your User Content is on the Service and for the limited additional period needed to complete deletion from backups and logs.
• Termination. Deleting your User Content, or your account, terminates this license going forward, subject to Sections 10 and 11.
• Published content. Content you publish or share carries additional consequences described in Section 5 and in the Public Sharing Rules at /legal/public-sharing-rules. Withdrawing published content does not undo copies other users already made.
• AI processing. Your User Content is processed by our AI vendors (currently OpenAI for generation, transcription and embeddings, and Cohere for search reranking) to deliver AI features and search. Your User Content is NOT used to train AI models — no such data path exists in the Service. See the AI Usage & Disclosure Policy at /ai-usage.
• Aggregated data. We may create and use de-identified, aggregated statistics derived from User Content (for example, how many users study a subject) for analytics and product improvement. We do not share identifiable User Content for these purposes without your consent.

There is no individual, user-level opt-out from AI processing. Institutional customers may enable a school-level AI kill switch that disables AI features for their users; if you are an institutional user, your school controls that setting, not you.

LICENSE YOU GRANT TO OTHER USERS WHEN YOU SHARE OR PUBLISH
Private User Content is not licensed to anyone else. The moment you share or publish, you extend rights to other people, and you should treat that as a deliberate, considered act.

When you publish an item to the public Library, share it by link, share it to a study group, or share it to your school, you grant every person who can lawfully access it a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to view, study from, and use that item for their own personal, non-commercial legal-education purposes.

If you enable the "allow copy" or "allow fork" control on an item, you additionally grant those users the right to reproduce that item into their own account and, in the case of forking, to modify and build upon their copy. Copy and fork lineage is tracked by the Service. If you set the attribution-required flag, users must retain the attribution shown by the Service. You may also state a license of your own choosing in the item's license field; that stated license governs downstream use to the extent it is broader or narrower than the default above.

The license you grant to other users for copies and forks they have already made is irrevocable. Unpublishing or deleting your original does not reach into other users' accounts and does not recall or delete their copies. This is the single most important consequence of publishing. Read the Public Sharing Rules at /legal/public-sharing-rules before you publish anything you may later regret.

PROHIBITED CONTENT
You may not create, upload, store, share or publish User Content that falls into any category below. These prohibitions apply to private content as well as shared content, except where a category is expressly limited to sharing.

6.1 Infringing material
• Verbatim or substantially verbatim reproduction of casebooks, hornbooks, treatises, study aids, supplements or commercial outlines.
• Commercial bar-prep material (outlines, lecture handouts, question banks, videos) from Barbri, Themis, Kaplan, Quimbee, Emanuel, Examples & Explanations, or any similar provider.
• Your professor's slides, handouts, distributed outlines, problem sets or model answers, uploaded or shared without that professor's permission.
• Recordings of a class or lecture made without the permission required by your instructor, your school, or applicable recording-consent law.
• Any other copyrighted work you do not own and have no license or applicable fair-use basis to use.
Your own notes, your own summaries, your own briefs, and the uncopyrightable content of judicial opinions and statutes are generally fine. See the Copyright Policy at /legal/copyright for concrete guidance on where the line falls.

6.2 Unlawful content
Content that is illegal to possess or distribute, that facilitates a crime, that violates export-control or sanctions law, or that violates a court order or protective order.

6.3 Harassment and abuse
Content that harasses, threatens, bullies, defames, or incites violence against any person; hate speech targeting protected characteristics; sexual content involving minors, which we report to authorities; and non-consensual intimate imagery.

6.4 Impersonation and misrepresentation
Pretending to be another student, a professor, an administrator, a JurisNote employee, a court, a bar authority, or any organization; falsely presenting content as officially endorsed by a school or by JurisNote; or falsifying attribution or authorship.

6.5 Malware and technical abuse
Files or code containing viruses, worms, trojans, or anything designed to disrupt, damage or gain unauthorized access to systems or data; content designed to defeat rate limits, access controls or security features; phishing content or credential-harvesting material.

6.6 Exam material obtained in breach of an honor code
Live, current or recycled examination questions, fact patterns, model answers, or grading rubrics obtained in violation of an honor code, exam instructions, a non-disclosure obligation, or a professor's stated restriction. This includes memorized reconstructions of an exam you were told not to disclose. It also includes material from a secured bar examination. Uploading this material privately is a violation; sharing it compounds the harm. See the Academic Integrity Policy at /legal/academic-integrity.

6.7 Another person's confidential or personal information
Personal information about another person that you do not have the right to store or share — including classmates' grades, health information or contact details; client, clinic or externship material, which is frequently privileged or confidential; sealed or protected-order material; and employer or firm confidential information encountered in a job search. Redact before you upload. If you cannot redact it safely, do not upload it.

SENSITIVE CONTENT YOU CREATE — CAREER AND WELLNESS
Two areas of the Service collect materially more sensitive information than the rest. Treat them differently.

7.1 Career-tracker records
Job applications, resumes, employer contacts, interview records and offers you store in the career tracker frequently contain your home address, phone number, employment history, salary figures, and third parties' names and contact details. These records are private to your account by default.

7.2 Wellness check-ins and trusted contacts
Mood check-ins and trusted-contact entries are health-adjacent information about you, and trusted-contact entries contain another person's identifying details. These records are private to your account by default.

7.3 How to treat both
• Do not publish, link-share or group-share career-tracker or wellness content. These are not intended for publication and there is no legitimate study reason to make them public.
• Before you add a trusted contact, get that person's agreement to be listed.
• Redact third parties' personal information from resumes and job-search documents where you can.
• The wellness features are study-habit tools. They are not medical or mental-health care, they are not monitored in real time, and they must never be relied on in an emergency. If you are in crisis, contact emergency services or a crisis line directly.

Our handling of these categories is described in the Privacy Policy at /privacy.

ACCURACY — YOUR CONTENT IS STUDY MATERIAL, NOT LEGAL ADVICE
You are responsible for the accuracy of your User Content, and you are responsible for evaluating the accuracy of anyone else's.

Material on the Service is student-created study material. It is frequently wrong, incomplete, out of date, jurisdiction-specific in ways that are not labeled, or simply a misunderstanding faithfully written down. A high rating, a high download count or a confident tone is not verification. Always check the primary source — the case, the statute, the rule — and your own professor's articulation of the doctrine.

Nothing on the Service is legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by using it. Do not use the Service to give legal advice, legal opinions or legal services to third parties. Do not rely on the Service for anything with real legal consequences for you or anyone else.

AI-GENERATED CONTENT
The Service uses AI to draft case briefs, generate flashcards and hypotheticals, build outlines, extract rules, transcribe lectures and produce lecture notes, supply cold-call hints, grade and give feedback on practice work, assist with career-tracker tasks (job-posting extraction, thank-you drafts, mock interviews, resume gap checks), and capture study material from images.

• AI output is labeled. AI-generated cards are marked in our data model and badged in the interface.
• You must accept AI output before it is saved. AI candidates are not written to your account until you explicitly accept them. Accepting is your editorial decision.
• Once you accept it, it is your User Content. Every obligation in this UGC Policy — accuracy, non-infringement, prohibited categories — applies to AI-assisted material exactly as it applies to material you typed yourself. "The AI wrote it" is not a defense.
• Review before you rely on it. AI models produce confident, fluent, wrong statements of law, including invented case citations and misstated holdings. Verify every rule and every citation against the primary source before relying on it and before publishing it.
• AI grading and feedback are practice aids only. They are not real grades, they do not predict your actual grade, and they carry no academic weight.
• If you publish AI-assisted material, keep the AI labeling intact and do not present machine output as verified human analysis.

See the AI Usage & Disclosure Policy at /ai-usage for further detail.

MODERATION, REPORTING, REMOVAL AND APPEAL
10.1 Our role
We may, but are not obligated to, monitor, review, screen or moderate User Content. We may remove, restrict, unpublish, disable access to, or refuse to display any User Content that we reasonably believe violates this UGC Policy, the Acceptable Use Policy, the Terms of Service or applicable law, or that exposes JurisNote or its users to legal risk. We may act with or without prior notice.

10.2 Reporting
Anyone can report content. Published items can be reported from the item itself, and our deck and card reporting flow accepts reports from people who do not have a JurisNote account — an email address is required, but a login is not. 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 takedown notices should follow the DMCA procedure at /legal/dmca and may be submitted through the public form at /legal/dmca-notice without logging in.

10.3 Review and outcomes
We review reports and may take any of the following steps: no action; a warning to the author; unpublishing an item while leaving it in the author's private account; removing an item; suspending public-sharing privileges; disabling an account and invalidating its sessions; or terminating an account. Administrator moderation actions are written to an append-only, hash-chained audit log.

10.4 Repeat infringement
Repeated valid copyright takedowns escalate 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. The publish endpoint refuses users whose sharing privileges are suspended. Full detail is in the Repeat Infringer Policy at /legal/repeat-infringer.

10.5 Appeal
If we remove your content or restrict your account and you believe we were wrong, email support@jurisnote.net with the item, the date, and why you believe the decision was incorrect. We will review and respond. For copyright removals specifically, you may instead submit a DMCA counter-notice under /legal/dmca; counter-notice and restoration are both supported, and a valid counter-notice can result in your content being restored under the statutory procedure.

RETENTION, TRASH AND DELETION
• Trash. When you delete most User Content it is soft-deleted into trash, where you can restore it. Content in trash is permanently deleted after 30 days.
• Immediate effects of unpublishing. Unpublishing removes an item from the Library immediately, but does not delete or recall copies or forks other users already made. See Section 5 and the Public Sharing Rules.
• Account deletion. Deleting your account hard-deletes your user record and your content. Certain financial, login and referral records are retained in pseudonymized form — pseudonymization is not irreversible anonymization. Commission ledger entries are retained for seven years for tax record-keeping.
• What survives. Copies and forks other users made remain theirs. Aggregated, de-identified statistics remain. Moderation and audit-log entries, and records we must keep to comply with law or to resolve disputes, remain. Content you contributed to a collaborative outline may remain visible to that outline's other collaborators.
• Backups. Deleted material may persist in encrypted backups for a limited period before being overwritten in the ordinary course.
• Export. Self-serve export currently covers decks, cards and study sessions only. It is not a complete account export. If you need a broader copy of your data, submit a request as described in the Privacy Policy at /privacy, which also covers GDPR (30 days), CCPA (45 days) and FERPA (45 days) request timelines.

COPYRIGHT AND DMCA CROSS-REFERENCE
This UGC Policy states what you may upload. It does not restate the takedown procedure. Copyright complaints, counter-notices and restoration are governed by the DMCA Policy at /legal/dmca, submitted through /legal/dmca-notice. The scope of ownership, licensing and permissible educational use — including specific guidance on casebooks, commercial supplements, bar-prep material and professor materials — is in the Copyright Policy at /legal/copyright. Escalating consequences are in the Repeat Infringer Policy at /legal/repeat-infringer. When you upload image, audio or video media to a card, we record your acknowledgment that you have the rights to that media.

ELIGIBILITY
You must be at least 16 years old to create an account or submit User Content, and if you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction you may use the Service only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian. By submitting User Content you represent that you meet this requirement.

【COUNSEL DECISION: The Service currently has NO age gate — there is no birthdate field, no minimum-age check, and no parental-consent mechanism in the product. This clause is contractual only and is unenforced in code. Counsel must decide between (a) requiring an age gate before launch, (b) selecting the minimum age (16 vs 13 vs 18) in light of COPPA exposure if under-13 users are possible and of state minor-consent statutes, or (c) an alternative approach such as restricting registration to verified law-school affiliations. Until one is chosen and implemented, JurisNote carries COPPA and minor-contract-capacity exposure.】

ENFORCEMENT AND YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
Violation of this UGC Policy may result in removal of content, loss of publishing privileges, suspension, or termination of your account, in our sole discretion and to the extent permitted by law. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless JurisNote and its affiliates, officers, directors and employees from any third-party claim arising out of your User Content, your sharing or publishing of it, or your breach of this UGC Policy, on the terms set out in Section 8 of the Terms of Service at /terms.

CONTACT
For questions about this UGC Policy, content removals, appeals, or support: support@jurisnote.net

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

JurisNote LLC, Macon, Georgia, USA. This UGC Policy is 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 THIS POLICY
We may update this UGC Policy 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 the licenses you grant, adding a prohibited-content category, or changing retention periods — we will notify you by email and/or in-app notice before the change takes effect, and where the change materially expands the rights you grant we may require you to re-accept the policy before continuing to use affected features. Non-material changes, such as clarifications and corrected cross-references, take effect on posting. Continued use of the Service after the effective date of a change constitutes acceptance of the revised policy. Prior versions are available on request from support@jurisnote.net.