SOVABOO

Copyright Policy

Effective date: April 28, 2026

This Copyright Policy explains how Sovaboo Digital OÜ, registry code 17150442, a company incorporated in the Republic of Estonia (“Sovaboo Digital”, “Sovaboo”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), handles copyright, intellectual property rights, author-published content, licensed commercial content, copyright complaints, and notice-and-takedown requests on our website and digital publishing platform.

This Copyright Policy applies to https://sovaboo.com, its subdomains, and related digital services operated by Sovaboo Digital (the “Services”). It should be read together with our Terms of Use and Digital Content Purchase Terms, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and any author agreements or publishing agreements applicable to specific content.

1. General Principle

Sovaboo Digital respects copyright, neighbouring rights, moral rights, trademark rights, and other intellectual property rights.

We require all authors, contributors, users, licensors, and rightsholders who submit, publish, license, or distribute content through the Services to respect the intellectual property rights of others.

Content may be made available on the Services under different legal models, including:

  1. free author-published content made available by independent authors through the platform;
  2. commercial digital content published, licensed, sold, distributed, or otherwise made available by Sovaboo Digital under a licence agreement or other legal arrangement;
  3. promotional excerpts, samples, metadata, covers, illustrations, editorial materials, or other related material.

2. Types of Content on the Platform

2.1 Author-Published Content

The Services may allow independent authors to submit and publish literary works, excerpts, chapters, posts, profile information, images, avatars, covers, illustrations, and other author-related materials (“Author Materials”) on the platform.

Author-published content may be made available free of charge, in open access, or under other access conditions determined by Sovaboo Digital. Such content is made available only within the Sovaboo Digital platform and remains subject to our moderation, technical processing, content rules, and platform requirements.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, author-published content is provided by the relevant author and is not necessarily a commercial edition formally published by Sovaboo Digital.

The author who submits Author Materials remains responsible for ensuring that they have all rights, permissions, consents, and legal authority required to submit, display, publish, and make such materials available through the Services.

2.2 Commercial or Licensed Content

Some content available through the Services may be commercially published, distributed, sold, promoted, or otherwise made available by Sovaboo Digital with the authorisation of the relevant author or rightsholder.

Such content may be subject to separate commercial, publishing, licensing, distribution, or cooperation terms between Sovaboo Digital and the relevant author or rightsholder. These arrangements are handled privately between the parties and are not described in detail in this Copyright Policy.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, the availability of content through the Services does not transfer any intellectual property rights to users. Users receive only the access and use rights expressly granted under our Terms of Use and Digital Content Purchase Terms.

3. Author Responsibilities

By submitting content to Sovaboo Digital, the author, contributor, or rightsholder represents and warrants that:

  1. they are the author, owner, licensee, or otherwise legally authorised person entitled to submit the content;
  2. the content does not infringe copyright, neighbouring rights, trademark rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, contractual rights, or any other rights of third parties;
  3. all necessary permissions have been obtained for any third-party materials included in the content or Author Materials, including text, excerpts, translations, images, avatars, profile photos, covers, illustrations, fonts, photographs, songs, lyrics, quotes, epigraphs, blog post materials, datasets, or other protected materials;
  4. the content is not plagiarised and was not submitted under a false authorship claim;
  5. the content does not unlawfully copy, adapt, translate, reproduce, or derive from another protected work;
  6. the content complies with applicable law, platform rules, content guidelines, and any applicable agreement with Sovaboo Digital;
  7. any information provided to Sovaboo Digital regarding authorship, rights ownership, publication history, translation status, licences, restrictions, and third-party permissions is accurate and complete.

Authors remain responsible for the legality and rights clearance of content they submit, even if Sovaboo Digital moderates, reviews, formats, processes, or publishes the content on the platform.

4. Moderation and Review

Sovaboo Digital may review, moderate, process, edit, format, classify, or otherwise assess submitted content before publication or at any time after publication.

Moderation may include, where appropriate:

  1. basic review of authorship and rights information;
  2. review for obvious copyright issues, plagiarism indicators, or suspicious materials;
  3. checking content against platform rules and content policies;
  4. verifying whether additional documentation, permissions, or declarations are required;
  5. requesting corrections, clarifications, or supporting materials from the author;
  6. refusing publication or restricting access where risks are identified.

Moderation does not constitute legal verification of ownership, legal clearance, copyright registration, or a guarantee that the content does not infringe third-party rights.

Sovaboo Digital may refuse, delay, suspend, restrict, remove, or disable access to content if we reasonably believe that the content may infringe rights, violate law, breach platform rules, create legal risk, or expose Sovaboo Digital, users, authors, or rightsholders to potential liability.

5. Copyright Complaints and Notices

If you believe that content available through the Services infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, you may send a copyright complaint to Sovaboo Digital.

Copyright complaints may be submitted by:

  1. using a “Report”, “Complain”, or similar button available near the relevant content, where such functionality is available; or
  2. contacting us by email at [email protected].

The reporting functionality may be available only to authorised or registered users. Email remains available for rightsholders and other persons who cannot use the in-platform reporting tool.

Your complaint should include:

  1. your full name and contact details;
  2. information confirming that you are the rightsholder or are authorised to act on behalf of the rightsholder;
  3. a clear identification of the protected work that you claim has been infringed;
  4. a clear identification of the allegedly infringing content on the Services, including URL or other location information;
  5. a description of how the content allegedly infringes your rights;
  6. copies or references to relevant evidence, where available;
  7. a statement that the information in your notice is accurate;
  8. your physical or electronic signature, where applicable.

Incomplete, unclear, or unsupported notices may delay processing.

6. Handling of Copyright Complaints

After receiving a copyright complaint, Sovaboo Digital may take steps that we consider appropriate under the circumstances, including:

  1. acknowledging receipt of the complaint;
  2. requesting additional information from the complainant;
  3. temporarily restricting access to the disputed content;
  4. forwarding the complaint to the author, contributor, publisher, licensor, or relevant rightsholder;
  5. requesting an explanation, counter-notice, licence documents, permissions, or other supporting evidence from the author;
  6. removing or disabling access to the disputed content;
  7. restoring content where the complaint is withdrawn, disproven, or otherwise resolved;
  8. suspending or terminating an author account in case of repeated, serious, or intentional infringement;
  9. preserving relevant records for legal, compliance, or dispute purposes.

Where content was submitted by an independent author, Sovaboo Digital may forward the complaint to that author and require the author to respond directly or provide evidence of rights clearance.

Where content is commercial or licensed content, Sovaboo Digital may review the relevant internal records, rights confirmations, warranties, supporting materials, and communications, and may contact the author, licensor, rightsholder, or other relevant party.

Sovaboo Digital is not required to adjudicate complex copyright ownership disputes between third parties. Where a dispute cannot be reasonably resolved based on available information, we may restrict or remove access to the disputed content until the parties resolve the matter or provide sufficient legal documentation.

7. Counter-Notice by Author or Publisher

If your content has been removed, restricted, or disabled because of a copyright complaint, you may submit a counter-notice to [email protected].

A counter-notice should include:

  1. your full name and contact details;
  2. identification of the removed or restricted content;
  3. an explanation of why you believe the complaint is incorrect;
  4. evidence that you own or control the relevant rights, or that your use is lawful;
  5. copies of relevant agreements, licences, permissions, publication records, or other supporting documents, where available;
  6. a statement that the information in your counter-notice is accurate;
  7. your physical or electronic signature.

Sovaboo Digital may decide, at its reasonable discretion and subject to applicable law, whether to restore, keep restricted, permanently remove, or further investigate the disputed content.

8. Repeat Infringers and Account Restrictions

Sovaboo Digital may restrict, suspend, or terminate access for authors, users, contributors, or accounts that:

  1. repeatedly submit infringing or suspicious content;
  2. submit content under false authorship claims;
  3. fail to provide adequate rights documentation when requested;
  4. knowingly submit plagiarised, unauthorised, or unlawfully adapted content;
  5. attempt to evade moderation, takedown measures, account restrictions, or copyright controls;
  6. misuse the complaint or counter-notice process.

Where appropriate, Sovaboo Digital may also remove content, cancel author status, terminate cooperation, withhold publication, suspend monetisation, or take other measures permitted by applicable terms and law.

9. User Restrictions Regarding Digital Content

Users who access content through the Services must respect all copyright and licence restrictions.

Unless expressly permitted by Sovaboo Digital or applicable law, users must not:

  1. copy, distribute, publish, upload, transmit, sell, resell, lend, rent, or share Digital Content with third parties;
  2. upload books or files obtained through the Services to third-party websites, pirate libraries, file-sharing services, cloud folders intended for sharing, social networks, forums, or messaging channels;
  3. remove or alter copyright notices, watermarks, publication identifiers, metadata, author information, publisher information, or other rights-management information;
  4. bypass DRM, watermarking, access restrictions, download restrictions, or other technical protection measures;
  5. use Digital Content for commercial purposes, public performance, public display, training of artificial intelligence systems, machine learning datasets, or automated content generation systems without prior written permission.

These restrictions apply to both free author-published content and commercial licensed content, unless specific terms expressly state otherwise.

10. No Legal Advice or Copyright Registration

Sovaboo Digital does not provide legal advice, copyright registration, authorship certification, legal clearance, or official verification of ownership.

Publication, moderation, acceptance, sale, distribution, or display of content through the Services does not by itself prove authorship, copyright ownership, non-infringement, or legal clearance.

Authors and rightsholders are responsible for obtaining independent legal advice where needed and for maintaining records proving their rights.

11. False or Abusive Claims

Sovaboo Digital may reject or disregard copyright complaints or counter-notices that appear to be fraudulent, abusive, incomplete, misleading, made in bad faith, or unrelated to intellectual property rights.

Submitting false claims, false counter-notices, forged documents, or misleading rights information may result in content removal, account suspension, termination of cooperation, legal claims, or disclosure to competent authorities where permitted by law.

12. Privacy and Disclosure of Information

When handling copyright complaints, Sovaboo Digital may process personal data relating to complainants, authors, users, licensors, and other parties.

We may share relevant information between the complainant and the author or rightsholder where reasonably necessary to handle the dispute, verify rights, process the complaint, comply with legal obligations, or protect legitimate interests.

More information about personal data processing is available in our Privacy Policy.

13. Changes to This Copyright Policy

Sovaboo Digital may update this Copyright Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our Services, moderation practices, legal requirements, content models, or rights-management procedures.

The updated version will be published on the Website with a revised effective date.

Rights-related questions may also be sent to [email protected].

This document is originally written in English. Translations into other languages are provided for convenience only. In case of discrepancies, the English version shall prevail unless mandatory law requires otherwise.