Stolly - Copyright & DMCA Policy

Last updated: November 2025

This Copyright & DMCA Policy (“Policy”) explains how Stolly (“Stolly”, “we”, “us”, “our”) handles notices of alleged copyright infringement and related intellectual property issues in connection with our mobile applications, websites and related services (collectively, the “Service”).

This Policy forms part of, and is incorporated by reference into, our Terms of Service (“ToS”). Capitalised terms not defined in this Policy have the meaning given to them in the ToS.

Although the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512, “DMCA”) is a U.S. statute, we apply its core notice-and-counter-notice principles globally, alongside European Union copyright law, the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), and Swedish law, in the jurisdictions where we operate.

1. Scope and Relationship with Other Terms

1.1. User Content and hosting role. Stolly is a user-generated content platform. Most text, audio, images, video and other material available through the Service is created, uploaded or generated by our users (“User Content”), not by Stolly. We generally act as a hosting service provider for such User Content.

1.2. Interaction with ToS and Community Guidelines. This Policy supplements the ToS and our Community Guidelines. Where this Policy addresses specific copyright and related rights procedures (including DMCA-style notices and counter-notices), those provisions should be read consistently with the sections of our ToS dealing with intellectual property, user-generated content and reporting mechanisms, and with our DSA-compliant reporting and appeals procedures.

1.3. No legal advice. This Policy is for information and compliance purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Rights-holders and users are responsible for seeking their own legal advice about their rights and obligations.

2. Respect for Intellectual Property and User Responsibilities

2.1. Your representations. By uploading, generating, posting or otherwise making available any User Content on or through the Service, you represent and warrant that:

2.2. Prohibition of infringing content. Uploading, posting, streaming, generating, sharing or otherwise making available content that infringes third-party rights is strictly prohibited and may result in:

2.3. AI-generated and TTS content. Content created with Stolly’s AI tools (including AI-generated stories, text and text-to-speech audio) is treated as User Content. You remain solely responsible for ensuring that your prompts, inputs and resulting outputs do not infringe third-party copyright or other rights (for example, by reproducing protected works without permission or attempting to mimic a protected voice without rights). Use of Stolly’s AI and TTS tools does not transfer ownership of underlying models, voices, sound libraries or other Stolly or third-party intellectual property to you.

2.4. Indemnity. As set out in the ToS, you agree to indemnify and hold Stolly harmless from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in connection with your User Content, including alleged or actual infringement of third-party rights.

3. Stolly’s Role and Limitation of Responsibility

3.1. Hosting provider. Stolly does not generally pre-screen all User Content. We operate as a hosting provider: we store content at the direction of users and act expeditiously to remove or disable access to content when we obtain actual knowledge of illegal content or receive a valid notice of alleged infringement, in accordance with applicable law (including EU law and DMCA-style requirements).

3.2. No general monitoring obligation. Consistent with EU and Swedish law, we do not have a general obligation to monitor all User Content or to actively seek facts or circumstances indicating illegal activity. However, we may use automated tools and human moderation to detect obvious or systemic abuses, in line with our Community Guidelines and DSA obligations.

3.3. No guarantee of outcome. Handling a notice or counter-notice means we will review and make a reasonable decision based on the information provided. We do not guarantee any particular outcome. We may decline to act on notices that are incomplete, abusive, clearly unfounded or otherwise defective.

4. How to Report Alleged Copyright Infringement

4.1. Who may submit a notice. Notices may be submitted by:

4.2. Where to send notices.

You may submit notices using any in-app reporting tools provided for intellectual property complaints (where available) or by sending a written notice to our designated Copyright / DMCA Agent:

Copyright / DMCA Agent

Email: stolly@stolly.app

Postal address: [Insert full registered address in Sweden as used in the ToS]

4.3. Content of a copyright notice (DMCA-style and EU DSA-compliant).

To be effective, your notice must be sufficiently precise and adequately substantiated. At a minimum, it should include:

1. Your contact details: full name, organisation (if applicable), postal address, email address and telephone number.

2. Identification of the work: a clear and reasonably detailed description of the copyrighted work or rights you claim have been infringed (for example, title of the work, type of work, and any registration or catalogue numbers if available).

3. Location of the allegedly infringing material: a description of the allegedly infringing content and its location on the Service sufficient for us to locate it (for example, URLs, usernames, story IDs, timestamps or screenshots).

4. Nature of the infringement: a brief explanation of why you believe the use is not authorised (for example, “unauthorised reproduction of my story”, “unauthorised upload of a protected audiobook excerpt”).

5. Good faith statement: a statement that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the rights-holder, its agent or the law.

6. Accuracy and authority statement: a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.

7. Legal statement (for DMCA purposes): if you invoke the DMCA, a statement made under penalty of perjury that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner (or authorised representative) of the exclusive right allegedly infringed.

8. Signature: your physical or electronic signature (for example, typing your full name preceded by “/s/” or using a recognised electronic signature).

4.4. Insufficient notices. We may reject or request clarification of notices that are incomplete, vague or do not provide enough information to identify the allegedly infringing content. Notices that fail to meet these requirements may not be processed.

4.5. Use of information in the notice. You agree that we may share relevant parts of your notice (including your contact details) with:

to the extent required or permitted by law.

5. Our Response to Notices

5.1. Initial review. Upon receipt of a valid notice, we will review the information provided and, acting in good faith and with reasonable care:

5.2. Statements of reasons and transparency (EU / DSA). For Users in the EU/EEA, when we remove or restrict access to content based on alleged illegality or violation of our policies, we will generally provide a statement of reasons in line with the DSA, unless we are legally prevented from doing so or providing such information would compromise investigation or prevention of abuse or crime.

5.3. Escalation and legal proceedings. In appropriate cases, we may encourage the parties to resolve the dispute directly or through courts, arbitration or other dispute-resolution mechanisms. Stolly is not obliged to adjudicate complex ownership disputes or copyright questions beyond what is reasonably clear from the notice and counter-notice.

6. Counter-Notification (If Your Content Was Removed)

6.1. When you may submit a counter-notice. If we remove or disable access to your content following a copyright notice and you believe this removal was a mistake or that you are authorised to use the content (for example, you have a licence, you are the rights-holder, or the use qualifies under an exception or limitation), you may submit a counter-notification.

6.2. Where to send counter-notices.

Counter-notices should be sent to the same Copyright / DMCA Agent specified above, with the subject line “Counter-Notice - [Your Username / Content ID]”, using:

Email: stolly@stolly.app

6.3. Required content of a counter-notice. A valid counter-notice should include:

1. Your full name, postal address, telephone number and email address.

2. Identification of the content that was removed or disabled, including its previous location on the Service (e.g., URLs, story ID, username, approximate date/time of upload).

3. A statement that you believe in good faith that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.

4. For DMCA purposes (for users in or dealing with the U.S.), a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the courts in your place of residence, and, if your address is outside the EU/EEA or U.S., that you consent to jurisdiction in the competent courts of Stockholm, Sweden, and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original notice or their agent.

5. A statement that the information in the counter-notice is accurate.

6. Your physical or electronic signature.

6.4. Our handling of counter-notices.

Upon receipt of a valid counter-notice, we may:

Restoration of content does not constitute a legal determination that no infringement has occurred; it simply reflects our role as an intermediary applying notice-and-counter-notice procedures.

7. Repeat Infringers and Policy Abuse

7.1. Repeat infringer policy. Stolly operates a policy for repeat infringers. Without limiting our other rights under the ToS, we may, in appropriate circumstances and at our reasonable discretion:

7.2. Record-keeping. To apply a repeat infringer policy and comply with legal obligations, we may maintain internal records of notices and actions taken, subject to our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws.

7.3. Abuse of notice procedures. Knowingly submitting false, misleading or malicious notices or counter-notices is prohibited. Such behaviour may lead to:

We reserve the right to report abusive or fraudulent activity to relevant authorities where appropriate.

8. Other Intellectual Property Complaints

8.1. Non-copyright IP. While this Policy focuses on copyright and related rights, you may also contact us regarding other alleged IP infringements (for example, trade marks or personality rights) using the same contact details. We may ask for additional information tailored to the nature of those rights.

8.2. Overlap with Community Guidelines and DSA notices. Content that infringes IP rights may also violate our Community Guidelines or be considered “illegal content” under the DSA or other laws. We may handle such cases under both this Policy and our broader legal obligations, including cooperation with authorities and trusted flaggers.

9. Changes to this Policy

9.1. Updates. We may update, amend or replace this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in law, regulatory guidance, our Service, or our internal procedures.

9.2. Notification. Material changes will generally be notified via our website, in-app notices, or other appropriate channels. Your continued use of the Service after such changes take effect constitutes your acceptance of the updated Policy.

10. Contact Information

For all copyright- and IP-related inquiries, notices and counter-notices, please contact:

Copyright / DMCA Agent

Stolly

Email: stolly@stolly.app

Postal address: Korsvägen 3