Legal

Content & Copyright Policy

Ownership, licences and the procedure for reporting content that infringes your rights.

Effective date: March 2, 2026
Last updated: May 9, 2026

Ownership and License

Users retain ownership of content they upload.
License grants to Readlink are described in detail in Section 3 of the Terms of Service.
Users must only contribute content they own or have rights to share.
Public sharing and social media reposting are permitted under the licenses described in the Terms.

Third-Party Content

Cover images, book descriptions, and other content surfaced via APIs may be subject to third-party rights.
Readlink displays such content on a good-faith basis under principles of fair use, fair dealing, quotation, and equivalent doctrines.
We act expeditiously on valid takedown requests.

Copyright Takedown Procedure

If you believe content available through Readlink infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, send a Takedown Notice to legal@readlink.app including:

Your contact information (name, address, email, phone).
Identification of the work you claim is infringed (title, author, ISBN where relevant).
The exact location of the allegedly infringing material on Readlink (URL, profile, post, or precise description).
A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the rights holder, an agent, or the law.
A statement, made under penalty of perjury or its civil-law equivalent, that the information is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorized to act on the rights holder's behalf.
Your physical or electronic signature.

Readlink operates a notice-and-action procedure under Article 16 of the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065), Swiss intermediary-liability principles, and equivalent doctrines in other jurisdictions where we offer the Service. We are a Swiss-established service and do not rely on the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act safe harbor, although our procedure is designed to be compatible with DMCA-style notices submitted by U.S. rights holders.

We will:

Acknowledge receipt of valid notices without undue delay.
Process notices in a timely, diligent, non-arbitrary, and objective manner.
Where the notice is sufficiently substantiated, remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material expeditiously and provide a clear statement of reasons to the user who posted the content, including the legal basis for the action and information about available redress.
Notify the affected user and provide them an opportunity to file a counter-notice through the procedure described below.
Maintain a record of all notices and actions for the period required by applicable law.
Track repeat infringers and suspend or terminate accounts associated with repeated, manifestly illegal content per Article 23 of the Digital Services Act.

Counter-Notice

If you believe content you posted was wrongly removed, you may submit a counter-notice to legal@readlink.app including: your contact information, identification of the removed content, a statement under penalty of perjury or civil-law equivalent that you believe the content was removed in error, and your consent to legal jurisdiction in the courts of Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland.

Repeat Infringers