TEXTORITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY
Last Updated: September 30, 2026
This Intellectual Property Policy applies to textority.com, text.me, text.to, lets.talk, the Textority web platform, and related websites and online services made available by Textority Inc. (collectively, the “Services”).
This Policy supplements the Textority Terms of Service and explains ownership, licenses, copyright, trademarks, counterfeiting, usernames and handles, publicity and personality rights, intellectual-property complaints, and related enforcement. Capitalized terms not defined here have the meanings given in the Terms of Service.
1. PURPOSE, SCOPE, AND RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER TERMS
1.1 Purpose. Textority enables Users to create, upload, communicate, sell, deliver, access, and interact with content and services. This Policy is intended to protect legitimate intellectual-property rights while preserving lawful expression, authorized uses, and the rights Users retain in their own content.
1.2 Additional Term. This Policy is an Additional Term under the Terms of Service and governs its specific intellectual-property subject matter. The Terms of Service continue to apply in full.
1.3 Related policies. Copyright notices intended to invoke the Digital Millennium Copyright Act are governed by Textority’s DMCA Policy and the designated-agent information made available in the Legal Center. The Acceptable Use Policy, Community and Content Rules, Prohibited Products and Services Policy, Creator Terms, Digital Content Delivery and Access Policy, and other applicable Textority terms may also apply to infringing, counterfeit, deceptive, or unauthorized material.
1.4 No expansion of statutory rights. This Policy does not create intellectual-property rights that do not exist under applicable law, eliminate lawful limitations or exceptions, or convert Textority into a court or administrative tribunal for private rights disputes.
2. CORE PRINCIPLES
2.1 Users keep their rights. As between a User and Textority, the User retains ownership of User Content and Creator Content, subject to third-party rights and the licenses the User grants under the Terms of Service, this Policy, Transaction Terms, or other applicable agreements.
2.2 No ownership transfer by hosting. Textority does not acquire ownership of Creator Content merely because the content is uploaded, hosted, stored, transmitted, processed, displayed, sold, licensed, or delivered through the Services.
2.3 Necessary rights only. A User must have the rights, permissions, licenses, consents, or legal basis necessary for the User’s use of content, names, marks, images, recordings, software, data, and other protected material through the Services.
2.4 Lawful uses preserved. Copyright, trademark, publicity, and related rights are subject to limitations, exceptions, defenses, territorial limits, and other rules under applicable law. Textority does not treat every unauthorized reference, quotation, criticism, parody, nominative use, comparative statement, or similar use as infringement merely because a rights holder objects to it.
2.5 No legal advice. Textority may make platform decisions based on the information reasonably available to it, but does not provide legal advice or finally determine the ownership, validity, scope, priority, infringement, fair use, or enforceability of private rights.
3. USER CONTENT AND CREATOR CONTENT OWNERSHIP
3.1 Ownership as between User and Textority. Subject to third-party rights, a User retains the copyright and other intellectual-property rights the User lawfully holds in User Content. A Creator likewise retains the rights the Creator lawfully holds in Creator Content.
3.2 Third-party material. A User may include third-party material only when the User has permission, a license, another valid legal basis, or a lawful limitation or exception that permits the use. Attribution alone does not create permission when permission is otherwise required.
3.3 Joint, commissioned, employment, and entity-owned works. Textority does not determine whether a work is jointly owned, created within employment, commissioned, assigned, licensed, or owned by an entity. The User is responsible for confirming the chain of title necessary for the User’s activity on the Services.
3.4 Moral rights and similar non-waivable rights. Nothing in this Policy is intended to require a waiver of moral rights, attribution rights, integrity rights, or similar author rights to the extent those rights cannot lawfully be waived. Any consent or license granted to Textority is interpreted only to the extent permitted by applicable law and reasonably necessary for the purposes stated in the governing Textority terms.
4. LICENSES NECESSARY TO OPERATE THE SERVICES
4.1 Operating license. The license a User grants Textority in User Content is the limited operating license described in Section 17 of the Terms of Service. It permits Textority to host, store, reproduce, process, transmit, display, format, technically adapt, and otherwise use User Content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, maintain, support, improve, and enforce the Services; fulfill transactions and purchased access; comply with User instructions; prevent fraud or abuse; comply with law; and perform Textority’s obligations or exercise its rights under applicable terms.
4.2 Service providers. Textority may sublicense or permit service providers to exercise only those rights reasonably necessary for the provider to perform services for Textority for the permitted purposes. This does not give a provider ownership of User Content.
4.3 Creator Offering delivery. A Creator authorizes Textority to make Creator Content available to End Users to the extent necessary to deliver or provide access to the applicable Creator Offering and honor purchased access, subject to the applicable license, Transaction Terms, Digital Content Delivery and Access Policy, and law.
4.4 Public Content. Content intentionally made public may be visible, linked, indexed, shared, embedded, or cached according to the nature of the Services, applicable settings, and third-party systems. The User must not make content public if the User lacks the necessary rights or authority.
4.5 Duration and retained copies. The operating license continues only as long as reasonably necessary for the permitted purposes, subject to backups, completed transactions, purchased access, legal holds, dispute evidence, safety preservation, and other lawful retention obligations. Deletion of an account or content does not necessarily erase every retained copy immediately where lawful retention is required or technically necessary under the applicable retention rules.
5. CREATOR OFFERINGS, SALES, AND END-USER LICENSES
5.1 No automatic transfer of copyright. Purchasing, subscribing to, downloading, viewing, or receiving Digital Content or another Creator Offering does not by itself transfer ownership of the underlying copyright or other intellectual property.
5.2 Transaction-specific license. The rights an End User receives in a Creator Offering are determined by the description, Transaction Terms, Creator Policies, applicable license terms, and mandatory law. Unless those terms expressly state otherwise, access to a Creator Offering is generally a limited right to use or access the offering for its stated purpose rather than an assignment of ownership.
5.3 Creator responsibility. A Creator must accurately describe material license limitations that affect the buyer’s expected use, including material restrictions on downloading, copying, redistribution, commercial reuse, sublicensing, or access duration when those restrictions are part of the offering.
5.4 No unauthorized resale or redistribution. An End User may not reproduce, redistribute, publicly perform, publicly display, resell, sublicense, remove rights-management information from, or otherwise exploit Creator Content beyond the rights granted by the applicable terms or law.
5.5 Mandatory exceptions preserved. Nothing in this Section eliminates a statutory limitation, exception, exhaustion principle, fair use right, quotation right, educational exception, accessibility exception, or other non-waivable right that applies to the particular use.
6. TEXTORITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
6.1 Textority property. The Services, Textority software, user interfaces, designs, branding, logos, original site content, and other materials provided by Textority are owned by or licensed to Textority and may be protected by copyright, trademark, trade dress, patent, database, unfair-competition, and other applicable laws.
6.2 Service license. The limited license to use the Services is governed by the Terms of Service. It does not transfer ownership of Textority software, source code, domains, branding, interfaces, documentation, or other Textority intellectual property.
6.3 Restrictions. Except as expressly permitted by Textority or applicable law, a User may not copy, reproduce, distribute, sell, sublicense, modify, create derivative services from, reverse engineer, extract source code from, remove proprietary notices from, or commercially exploit Textority proprietary materials.
6.4 Lawful interoperability and exceptions. Section 6.3 does not restrict activity that applicable law expressly permits notwithstanding a contractual restriction, including a non-waivable right of interoperability, security research performed under an authorization Textority has provided, or another legally protected activity.
6.5 Third-party and open-source components. A component identified as third-party or open-source material is governed by the license applicable to that component. This Policy does not enlarge or reduce rights granted under an applicable third-party or open-source license.
7. TEXTORITY MARKS, BRANDING, AND REFERENCES
7.1 Textority Marks. Textority names, logos, service names, product names, trade dress, domains, and other source identifiers are Textority property or licensed to Textority. No right to use them is granted except as expressly stated in applicable Textority terms or written authorization.
7.2 Truthful references. A User may truthfully identify that the User uses Textority or link to a Textority page in a manner permitted by law, provided the use does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement, certification, partnership, or affiliation.
7.3 Logos and branded assets. A User may not use Textority logos, stylized marks, badges, or branded assets in advertising, product branding, domain names, app names, merchandise, or other source-identifying uses unless Textority authorizes that use or applicable law permits it.
7.4 No confusing affiliation. A User may not design a Channel, page, listing, communication, or external property to make a reasonable person believe it is operated, endorsed, certified, or officially affiliated with Textority when it is not.
8. USERNAMES, HANDLES, PERSONALIZED URLS, AND NAMESPACE RIGHTS
8.1 Limited identifier license. A username, handle, personalized URL, Channel identifier, subdirectory, or similar identifier within the Textority ecosystem is a limited, revocable, non-exclusive permission to use an identifier within Textority. It is not owned property and does not create ownership of a domain, URL, namespace, directory, or Textority intellectual property.
8.2 Rights of others. A User may not select or use an identifier in a manner that infringes another person’s rights, constitutes deceptive impersonation, creates unlawful confusion, or is used primarily for abusive squatting, fraud, or extortion.
8.3 Rejection, restriction, or reassignment. Textority may reject, reserve, suspend, remove, reclaim, rename, or reassign an identifier where reasonably necessary for legal compliance, infringement disputes, impersonation, fraud, abuse, security, misleading identity, inactivity where separately disclosed, or platform integrity.
8.4 No automatic transfer to complainant. If Textority removes or reclaims an identifier because of a rights dispute, Textority is not required to transfer that identifier to the complainant. Any transfer or reassignment remains subject to Textority’s namespace rules, the evidence available, applicable law, and platform integrity.
8.5 No ownership adjudication. An identifier decision is a platform administration decision and does not finally determine trademark priority, ownership, infringement, or another private legal right.
9. RESPECT FOR THIRD-PARTY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
9.1 Required rights. A User must not upload, publish, communicate, sell, license, deliver, link to for an infringing purpose, or otherwise use material through the Services in a way that infringes or misappropriates another person’s copyright, trademark, trade dress, patent, trade secret, publicity right, or other legally protected right.
9.2 No counterfeit or passing off. A User may not offer counterfeit material, falsely label goods or services as authentic or authorized, misuse protected branding to deceive users about source, or engage in passing off or materially misleading affiliation.
9.3 Credentials and authority. A User may not falsely claim to be the rights owner, authorized licensee, official distributor, representative, agent, publisher, label, studio, institution, professional body, or other rights-authorized party.
9.4 External content. Textority generally cannot remove content hosted solely on a third-party website that Textority does not control. Textority may, however, restrict a Textority link, Channel, listing, transaction, or account where the use of third-party content through the Services violates applicable Textority terms or law.
10. COPYRIGHT REPORTS AND THE DMCA
10.1 Copyright complaints. A copyright owner or authorized representative may report material on the Services that the complainant reasonably believes infringes copyright. The report should identify the copyrighted work, the allegedly infringing material and its location, the complainant’s authority, and sufficient information for Textority to evaluate and respond to the report.
10.2 Formal DMCA notices. A copyright notice intended to invoke 17 U.S.C. § 512 must comply with the requirements of applicable U.S. law and must be sent through the method and to the designated agent identified in Textority’s DMCA Policy and Legal Center. A general abuse or support report does not automatically satisfy the statutory elements of a DMCA notice.
10.3 Counter-notices and restoration. DMCA counter-notices, restoration timing, forwarding of notices, and related procedures are governed by Textority’s DMCA Policy and applicable law, not by this general Intellectual Property Policy.
10.4 No safe-harbor representation. Publication of this Policy does not by itself state or guarantee that Textority satisfies every requirement for a limitation on liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512 or another safe-harbor regime. Eligibility depends on the facts, Textority’s actual practices, and satisfaction of the applicable statutory requirements.
11. TRADEMARK, TRADE DRESS, AND COUNTERFEIT COMPLAINTS
11.1 Trademark complaints. A rights holder or authorized representative may report use of a trademark, service mark, trade dress, trade name, or other source identifier that the complainant reasonably believes infringes or violates applicable rights.
11.2 Information to provide. A trademark complaint should identify the rights holder, the mark or protected identifier, the jurisdiction and basis of the claimed rights, registration information if applicable, the goods or services associated with the right, the challenged material and location, and the basis for the claimed confusion, deception, counterfeiting, passing off, or other violation.
11.3 Registered and other legally recognized rights. Textority may consider evidence of registered rights and other legally recognized rights where applicable law provides protection. Textority may request additional evidence sufficient to evaluate ownership, priority, geographic scope, goods or services, authorization, or likely confusion.
11.4 Referential and non-source uses. A report should distinguish allegedly infringing source-identifying use from lawful reference, commentary, criticism, comparison, parody, resale identification, nominative use, or another use that applicable law permits.
11.5 Counterfeit claims. Textority may take action against listings, content, identifiers, or transactions reasonably believed to involve counterfeit branding or deceptive claims of authenticity, even when physical goods are not a supported Textority offering.
12. IMPERSONATION, NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS, VOICE, AND PERSONALITY RIGHTS
12.1 Impersonation. A User may not deceptively impersonate another person, brand, business, government entity, institution, Creator, professional, or other organization.
12.2 Protected indicia. A User may not commercially or unlawfully use another person’s protected name, image, likeness, voice, signature, persona, or other legally protected indicia without the rights, authorization, or legal basis required by applicable law.
12.3 Lawful expressive uses. This Section does not prohibit lawful journalism, commentary, criticism, parody, satire, documentary uses, biographical discussion, or other protected expression merely because it refers to or depicts another person.
12.4 Synthetic media. Use of AI-generated or digitally altered material remains subject to this Policy, the Community and Content Rules, the Acceptable Use Policy, and applicable rights relating to copyright, trademark, impersonation, publicity, privacy, fraud, and non-consensual intimate imagery.
13. TEXTORITY AI AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
13.1 Inputs. A User must have the rights and permissions necessary to submit third-party content, trademarks, confidential material, copyrighted works, or other protected material to Textority AI or another AI-assisted feature.
13.2 Outputs. Textority does not guarantee that AI-generated or AI-assisted output is unique, eligible for copyright or other protection, non-infringing, accurate as to ownership, or free from similarity to third-party material. The User is responsible for evaluating the rights and intended use of output before publishing, selling, or relying on it.
13.3 No ownership expansion. This Section does not determine ownership of AI inputs or outputs beyond what applicable law, the Terms of Service, and applicable AI Additional Terms provide.
14. LIMITATIONS, EXCEPTIONS, PUBLIC DOMAIN, AND LICENSED MATERIAL
14.1 Lawful limitations and exceptions. Textority recognizes that intellectual-property laws contain limitations, exceptions, defenses, and permitted uses. Depending on the jurisdiction and facts, these may include fair use, fair dealing, quotation, criticism, commentary, parody, news reporting, educational uses, accessibility uses, interoperability, exhaustion, or other lawful uses.
14.2 Public domain and permissive licenses. Material may be used where it is in the public domain or where an applicable license authorizes the use, subject to the terms of that license. A User is responsible for satisfying attribution, notice, share-alike, noncommercial, source-code, or other license conditions that apply.
14.3 No presumption from availability. The fact that material is publicly accessible online, appears in search results, can be downloaded, or can technically be copied does not by itself mean the material is in the public domain or licensed for the User’s intended purpose.
15. SUBMITTING A GENERAL INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY REPORT
15.1 Reporting routes. Reports may be submitted through textority.com/legal/report or another intellectual-property reporting route Textority makes available. Copyright notices intended to invoke the DMCA should use the DMCA-specific process identified in Section 10.
15.2 Minimum useful information. A report should include enough information to identify the complainant and authority to act, the right asserted, the material or identifier at issue, its location on the Services, the legal or factual basis of the complaint, and a reliable method for Textority to contact the complainant.
15.3 Evidence. Textority may request registrations, licenses, assignments, chain-of-title documents, screenshots, transaction information, source files, identity information, declarations, court orders, or other evidence reasonably relevant to the particular claim. Textority will not require the same evidence for every type of right or jurisdiction.
15.4 Specificity. A complainant should identify the specific material, URL, username, Channel, listing, file, or other location at issue when reasonably possible. Broad assertions that an entire account is unlawful without identifying the basis may delay or prevent meaningful review.
15.5 Authorized representatives. A representative may submit a report for a rights holder, but Textority may request reasonable evidence of the representative’s authority.
16. TEXTORITY REVIEW AND RESPONSE
16.1 Contextual review. Textority may consider the nature of the right asserted, the jurisdiction, registration or ownership evidence, the challenged use, applicable exceptions, public-interest context, prior reports, counter-evidence, user history, transaction context, and other information reasonably relevant to the issue.
16.2 Available actions. Depending on the circumstances, Textority may request more information, take no action, restrict visibility, remove or disable access to content, restrict a listing or transaction, rename or reclaim an identifier, limit features, suspend or terminate an account, preserve evidence, or take another proportionate action permitted by applicable terms and law.
16.3 No automatic removal. Except where applicable law or a binding legal process requires otherwise, receipt of a complaint does not automatically establish infringement or require Textority to grant every requested remedy.
16.4 Notice to affected User. Where appropriate and legally permitted, Textority may notify the affected User of the substance of a complaint and may provide information reasonably necessary for the User to understand or respond to the claim. Textority may withhold information where disclosure would create a legal, privacy, security, fraud, safety, or retaliation risk.
16.5 Information sharing. A complainant should understand that information submitted in an intellectual-property report may be disclosed to the affected User, service providers, legal advisers, authorities, courts, or others when reasonably necessary to process the report, resolve the dispute, enforce Textority terms, protect rights, or comply with law, subject to applicable privacy requirements.
17. REPEAT INFRINGEMENT AND ACCOUNT-LEVEL ENFORCEMENT
17.1 Repeat infringement. Textority may suspend or terminate Users who repeatedly infringe intellectual-property rights in appropriate circumstances, consistent with the Terms of Service, applicable law, and any Repeat Infringer Policy Textority makes available.
17.2 No automatic numeric rule in this Policy. This Policy does not establish a universal number of reports or removals that automatically determines repeat-infringer status. A detailed operational policy may consider the reliability and status of notices, counter-notices, retractions, court orders, account conduct, repeated unauthorized use, and other relevant circumstances.
17.3 Evasion. A User may not create replacement accounts, use team members, move content between Channels, alter identifiers, or use another person’s account primarily to evade an intellectual-property enforcement action.
17.4 Separate violations. Trademark abuse, counterfeiting, impersonation, fraud, or other rights violations may support account-level enforcement independently of a copyright repeat-infringer analysis.
18. COUNTER-REPORTS, DISPUTES, AND RESTORATION OUTSIDE THE DMCA
18.1 Response opportunity. Where Textority offers a response or appeal for a non-DMCA intellectual-property action, the affected User may be asked to provide evidence of ownership, authorization, priority, lawful use, license, consent, geographic scope, fair use, nominative use, or another relevant basis.
18.2 Restoration. Textority may restore content, an identifier, or account access when the available information no longer supports the action, the complainant withdraws the claim, the parties resolve the dispute, a competent authority resolves the issue, or Textority otherwise determines restoration is appropriate and lawful.
18.3 Private disputes. Textority may decline to resolve a complex ownership, contractual, partnership, authorship, employment, succession, or trademark-priority dispute that cannot reasonably be determined through platform records and the evidence provided. The parties may need to resolve such disputes directly or through a court, arbitrator, agency, or other competent authority.
18.4 DMCA process controls for DMCA matters. Nothing in this Section replaces the statutory counter-notice and restoration procedures applicable to a valid DMCA matter.
19. FALSE, FRAUDULENT, OR ABUSIVE REPORTS
19.1 Accuracy. A person submitting a report or response must provide information that the person reasonably believes is accurate and must not knowingly misrepresent ownership, authorization, infringement, non-infringement, registration status, identity, evidence, or material facts.
19.2 Abuse prohibited. A person may not use Textority’s reporting process to harass, extort, censor lawful criticism, suppress competition, seize an identifier without a legitimate rights basis, retaliate against a User, or interfere with lawful activity through knowingly false or abusive claims.
19.3 Consequences. Textority may reject abusive reports, restrict access to reporting tools, take account action, preserve evidence, or refer a matter to appropriate authorities or legal processes where permitted or required. Nothing in this Policy limits liability that applicable law may impose for a materially false or fraudulent notice.
20. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND TRADE SECRETS
20.1 User responsibility. A User must not upload, disclose, sell, or distribute another person’s trade secrets or confidential information without authorization or another valid legal basis.
20.2 Confidentiality is not guaranteed by copyright status. Information may be confidential even when it is not protected by copyright, and information may be copyrighted even when it is not confidential. Users are responsible for applying appropriate confidentiality and access controls to material they submit to the Services.
20.3 Disputes. Trade-secret and confidential-information disputes often depend on contractual duties, secrecy measures, authorization, and fact-specific law. Textority may require formal legal process or other reliable evidence before taking action on a complex claim.
21. PATENTS AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY
21.1 Patent claims. Patent disputes generally require claim construction, technical analysis, validity questions, and other issues not suitable for ordinary content moderation. A patent owner may contact Textority at hello@textority.com with sufficient information to identify the patent, the challenged Textority-hosted activity, the jurisdiction, and the basis of the claim.
21.2 No patent adjudication. Textority may request additional information, restrict activity where clearly necessary, or require a court order or other competent determination before acting on a disputed patent claim. This does not limit any legal obligation Textority independently has.
21.3 Other protected rights. Design rights, database rights, geographical indications, industrial designs, and other intellectual or industrial property may be considered when the claimant identifies a legally recognized right and provides information sufficient for Textority to evaluate the issue.
22. COLOMBIA AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS
22.1 Local rights remain effective. This Policy does not limit copyright, moral rights, trademark, unfair-competition, industrial-property, personality, or other rights available under Colombian law or another applicable jurisdiction.
22.2 Digital environment. A work or other protected subject matter does not lose protection merely because it is distributed, displayed, stored, communicated, or made available digitally. Users remain responsible for rights required for online reproduction, communication, distribution, adaptation, or other acts governed by applicable law.
22.3 Territorial scope. Intellectual-property rights may differ by jurisdiction, territory, registration status, class of goods or services, and type of right. A right that exists in one country does not automatically establish the same scope or remedy everywhere.
22.4 DMCA is U.S.-specific. The DMCA process is a United States statutory mechanism. Use of a DMCA process does not eliminate rights or remedies available under Colombian law or another applicable legal system.
23. RECORDS, PRIVACY, AND PRESERVATION
23.1 Report records. Textority may retain notices, reports, counter-reports, evidence, correspondence, enforcement records, and related metadata as reasonably necessary to process claims, detect abuse, operate a repeat-infringer process, defend legal claims, comply with law, and maintain platform integrity, subject to applicable privacy and retention requirements.
23.2 Legal holds and preservation. Textority may preserve relevant records when required by law, valid legal process, litigation obligations, safety obligations, or a lawful preservation requirement.
23.3 Data minimization. Intellectual-property reporting should not be used to request or collect unrelated sensitive personal information. Textority may redact or limit information where reasonably necessary to protect privacy, security, minors, witnesses, or confidential information.
24. CHANGES, ENFORCEMENT, AND ORDER OF PRECEDENCE
24.1 Changes. Textority may update this Policy prospectively in accordance with the Terms of Service. Material changes will receive the notice or renewed acceptance required by applicable law or governing Textority terms.
24.2 Enforcement. Textority may enforce this Policy through the proportionate measures available under the Terms of Service and applicable law. An intellectual-property action does not eliminate a buyer’s non-waivable refund, access, chargeback, or consumer rights relating to a completed transaction.
24.3 Order of precedence. The order-of-precedence rules in the Terms of Service govern conflicts among this Policy and other applicable Textority documents. For a formal DMCA matter, the DMCA Policy controls the DMCA-specific notice, counter-notice, designated-agent, and restoration procedures.
24.4 No retroactive transfer of ownership. A change to this Policy does not retroactively transfer ownership of User Content, Creator Content, or other intellectual property to Textority.
25. CONTACT AND REPORTING
25.1 General intellectual-property reports. Submit reports through textority.com/legal/report or another reporting route identified in the Textority Legal Center.
25.2 DMCA notices. Notices intended to invoke 17 U.S.C. § 512 must be submitted to the designated agent and through the method identified in Textority’s DMCA Policy and Legal Center.
25.3 General legal questions. Questions about this Policy may be submitted to:
Textority Inc.10101 SW 27th TerMiami, FL 33165United StatesEmail: hello@textority.comLegal Center: textority.com/legal
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