Intellectual Property

readerxo does not take ownership of anything you publish. The copyright in your book, your narration, your cover, and your video remains yours. Publishing on readerxo grants readerxo only the permission needed to run the platform: to store your files, to build the text, audio, and watch formats you asked for, to show your work to the readers who are entitled to it, and to show its cover and title where your work is listed. That permission exists to operate the service and for no other purpose. readerxo does not sell your work to anyone else, license it to a third party, or use it to promote anything but your work.

You may edit a published work, replace its files, change its price, or add and remove its formats at any time. You may download your own source file at any time. You may unpublish or delete a work at any time. Removing a work takes it off sale and out of the catalog; readers who already bought it keep the copy they paid for, because that is a purchase they made, and payouts already earned are unaffected.

When you publish a work, narrate it, stream a reading of it, or upload a cover, you are stating that you own the rights or have permission. Public-domain material is fine. Someone else's book is not, and neither is a cover image you found.

Reading a copyrighted book aloud in a live session is a public performance. A host is responsible for holding that right, or for reading only an excerpt where the law permits it. A recording published to the club Archive carries the same obligation as the live session did.

Send a notice to readerxo Support. To be actionable it must identify the work you own, identify the material on readerxo you say infringes it with a link, give your contact details, state that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized, state under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorized to act for them, and carry your signature.

A complete notice results in the material being removed or access to it disabled, and the member being notified with a copy of the notice.

A member who believes the removal was a mistake or a misidentification may send a counter-notice with the same completeness: the material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that the removal was a mistake or misidentification, consent to jurisdiction, and a signature. readerxo may restore the material after the statutory waiting period unless the original reporter files suit.

Accounts that accumulate repeated valid copyright notices are terminated. Publishing, hosting, and payout privileges end with the account.

Knowingly filing a false notice carries liability under the law. Using a notice to silence a review, a criticism, or a competitor is a violation of these policies in its own right.

Quotation, criticism, commentary, teaching, and scholarship may be lawful without permission. readerxo does not decide fair use for you. If your use depends on it, be prepared to defend it in your counter-notice.