The topic of intellectual property can be difficult to navigate, and the last thing anyone wants is to find themselves on the wrong end of a lawsuit. Here at Chapterly, we abide by the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It is important to remember that while Chapterly is a US-based company, users located in other countries are responsible for knowing and complying with all applicable copyright laws.

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Chapterly makes no claim on anything written or shared on our platform. If you wrote it, you own it. Your content will always belong to you! Period.

By the same logic, if you use an AI tool to generate all or most of your book, you cannot claim any legal rights to it. You can sell it, but you can't stop anyone else from putting their name on it and selling it too. The legalities of selling content created by AI can be tricky, and it is your responsibility as an author to research the current laws and avoid breaking them.

As a writer, you have exclusive rights over your creative work (intellectual property). This gives every copyright owner the ability to prevent others from copying, distributing, and most especially profiting from their work. As a content creator on Chapterly, you have a responsibility to safeguard your own copyrights and avoid infringing on the copyrights of others.

Maintaining control over your creative works can be difficult in the digital age, and every content creator must accept a certain degree of risk when they share their work on the internet. It's important to control what you can--not only what you share but where and how you share it.

Quite simply, if you didn't write it, it doesn't belong to you. Attempting to profit from content that has been copied or adapted from someone else's creative work will result in the prompt removal of both the content and the offending party from Chapterly. In the worst case scenario, it could lead to an intellectual property lawsuit.

The most important limitation on copyrights is the 'fair use' principle. Writers can make fair use of copyrighted work without obtaining a license or permission from the owner. But even this limitation has its caveats. Legal decisions based on Fair Use are always case-specific, and as such, there is no universal definition of what qualifies. Read more about Fair Use.