Terms for collectors
This is a plain-English summary of how nommo works for collectors, not a substitute for your own legal advice.
Last updated 26 October 2026
What's changed (9 versions)
- 26 October 2026Updated the wording of "Live events, live classes and tickets".
- 11 October 2026Updated the wording of "nommo is in beta".
- 10 October 2026Updated the wording of "Live events, live classes and tickets".
- 10 October 2026Added "What you collect is only on nommo".
- 9 October 2026Added "Sets, and changes to a work you own". Updated the wording of "Referrals".
- 6 October 2026Added "Referrals", "Tax" and "nommo is in beta".
- 2 October 2026Updated the wording of "Live events, live classes and tickets".
- 2 October 2026Added "Live events, live classes and tickets".
- 28 September 2026Added section 13, "Signed copies and autographs". Added a last-updated date and this record of changes.
1. What "buy once, own forever" means
When you buy a work on nommo, you get a permanent personal license to keep and enjoy that specific work, no subscription, no expiring access, no revoked license. It means you can listen, watch, read or view it whenever you like, for as long as nommo exists, and see our Continuity policy for what that means if it doesn't. It does not automatically transfer the underlying copyright to you, you're not buying the right to resell, redistribute, publicly perform, or commercially use the work unless the creator has explicitly said otherwise.
2. Free previews aren't the product
Before you buy, you can watch or listen to a short clip, read an excerpt, or take a measured glance at an image, free and without an account. That preview exists so you know what you're paying for, the full work only unlocks once you buy it.
3. Devices and account sharing
Your nommo account is for you. To help prevent casual password sharing (the exact thing that hollows out independent creators' income), streaming access is tied to a small set of devices registered to your account, capped at three. If you need to free up a slot, you can remove an old device from your account settings. Deliberately circumventing device limits or sharing login credentials so others can access your purchases without buying them themselves is a violation of these terms.
4. Lending and gifting
You can lend a work you own to someone else for a set period (7, 14, or 30 days), or gift it to them permanently. No file ever leaves nommo's systems, it's a transfer of access, not a copy. While a work is on loan, your own access to it pauses, exactly like handing over a physical copy; it returns automatically when the loan ends. A gift is permanent and can't be undone once the recipient claims it.
5. Heirloom (reselling what you own)
Once you've owned a work for a holding period (currently 256 days), you can list it for resale on nommo's Heirloom marketplace, a creator can also choose to make a given release ineligible for resale entirely. When it sells, the proceeds split three ways: 80% to you as the seller, 10% to nommo, and 10% back to the original creator as an ongoing royalty, automatically, every time. This only governs resales that happen on nommo itself; it isn't a claim over what you do with your own copy off-platform, though redistributing it elsewhere is still covered by Section 6 below.
6. Refunds
Because a purchase grants permanent access rather than a shippable good, refunds are handled case by case, generally available within 48 hours of purchase if you haven't meaningfully accessed the full work, at nommo's discretion. Contact support to request one.
7. No redistribution
Ripping, re-uploading, or otherwise redistributing a work you've bought (including the portion you access via lending or gifting) is a violation of these terms and of the creator's rights, and may result in account termination.
8. Raves and playlists
You can post a public "rave" (a short note of appreciation) and build playlists from works you actually own or created. This is meant to be a real signal of what's worth collecting, not a marketing feed, only owners and creators can rave about a given work.
9. nommo Radio
nommo Radio is a continuous, curated stream pulled from the catalog. It plays live rather than on demand, there's no pausing, skipping, seeking, or picking your own track once you've joined, that's deliberate, it's built to feel like a real station rather than a personal playlist. Listening to nommo Radio doesn't grant ownership of anything that plays on it; if you hear something you want to keep, you buy it the normal way, same as anything else on the shelf.
10. nommo Originals
Some of what's on nommo is produced directly by the nommo Institute for Creative Futures, nommo's own production arm, rather than uploaded by an independent creator. It carries its own "Originals" badge so it's clear where it came from. Buying an Originals release works exactly like buying anything else on nommo, buy once own forever, same refund and device rules, it's simply nommo itself standing in the creator's role rather than a third party.
11. AI-made work
Creators are required to disclose honestly whether AI was involved in a work, not at all, used as a tool, or primarily generated, see Section 3 of the Terms for creators for the full policy. That disclosure shows on the work itself before you buy. If a work is later found to have misrepresented its AI involvement, we may restrict access to it, but that doesn't on its own extend the refund window in Section 6 above.
12. Audio and video quality
The quality badge on a work, standard, lossless, hi-res, or a format like Dolby Atmos, is declared by the creator at upload, not independently verified by nommo. We rely on creators to describe their own files honestly, the same trust the age-rating and content standards in the Terms for creators depend on. If a work is materially misrepresented, contact support.
13. Signed copies and autographs
A creator can sign your copy of their work, either as a gift or because you bought one of their limited signed copies. An autograph is made for one specific copy: a signature the creator draws by hand, usually an inscription with your name, sometimes a short voice note, and a numbered nommo seal. It's recorded in that copy's ownership history and can't be edited afterwards. It belongs to the copy rather than to you personally, so if you gift or resell the copy, the autograph goes with it and its history still shows who it was first signed for. It stays private unless you choose to show it publicly, and whoever holds the copy next starts private and decides for themselves. If you buy a signed copy, the creator signs it personally after your purchase, so it can take a little while to appear. The number of signed copies and their price are fixed once the first one sells, so the edition you bought into never grows. If a signed copy you paid for still hasn't been signed after a reasonable wait, contact support and we'll follow it up with the creator, including refunding the difference between the signed and ordinary price if it can't be signed.
14. Live events, live classes and tickets
Some of what happens on nommo happens live, on video: a creator teaching a class, or hosting an event such as a music show or an interview. A live class is open to the people who own that course. A live event is either free to any signed-in member or ticketed, the host decides. A premiere is a creator playing one of their own works for everyone in the room at the same moment: it is for the people who own that work, unless the creator opens it to every member, in which case you can watch the whole work while the premiere is live, and it goes back to being for its owners when it ends. A premiere is not recorded. A ticket is admission to that one event, at its stated time, for the account that bought it. It isn't a work you own, so it can't be lent, gifted, resold on Heirloom, or moved to another account. A room holds a limited number of people (currently 200) and a host can be live for a limited time each day (currently 90 minutes), so a session can end when that time runs out. Tickets are final: there is no refund for changing your mind, for missing the event, or for trouble with your own device or connection. You are refunded in full, without having to ask, if the host cancels, or if the event still hasn't started 60 minutes after its stated time, which we treat as a cancellation. So that this promise can always be kept, nommo holds the money for a ticket until the event has taken place, and only then pays the host. Refunds go back the way you paid and can take a few working days to arrive. If an event starts but can't be watched, or is cut badly short, because of a fault on nommo's side, contact support and we'll look at it case by case. A live session is recorded from the host's own camera and microphone only; a question you send goes to the host alone and is never part of the recording. If you join live, the recording is yours to keep, free, once the host publishes it, on the same terms as anything else you own here. A host may choose not to publish one, and holding a ticket without joining doesn't earn it. While you watch, your name is shown faintly over the picture and the stream pauses when its tab is in the background. Recording or redistributing a live session is covered by Section 7. Sessions. Some creators offer paid one-to-one sessions: a lesson, a consultation, a reading. You choose one of the times they have listed and pay for it. The session takes place on nommo Live, privately, just you and the creator, on camera; it is never recorded. nommo holds your payment until the session has taken place. You can cancel up to 24 hours before its time from the session's page and be refunded in full. After that it is final: there is no refund for missing it or for trouble with your own device or connection. You are refunded in full, without having to ask, if the creator cancels or has not started within 60 minutes of the time. A session is for the account that booked it and cannot be passed to anyone else.
15. Referrals
Every nommo account has its own referral link, found in your settings. If someone joins nommo through your link, you earn a reward the first time they buy something or, if they are a creator, the first time their work is bought, whichever comes first. The reward is 20% of nommo's own fee on that one transaction, which works out at about 6% of the price. It comes out of nommo's share and nowhere else: the buyer pays the same price as anyone, and the creator still keeps their full 70%. It is paid once for each person you bring, never again on what they do afterwards. Buying a work, a whole album or course, or merch counts. Resales, broadcast licences, sync placements and live event tickets do not. There is no reward for referring yourself, or where the person you referred is buying from you or selling to you. Rewards are recorded as owed when they are earned and paid out by nommo by hand, so there can be a wait; nommo may withhold a reward it has reason to think was earned by abuse, such as accounts made only to collect it. If you recommend nommo to someone through your link, tell them you may earn from it. That is plain good manners, and in many places it is also the law. Being in someone's circle, or being invited to one, does not by itself make you their referral: that only counts if you were not on nommo before.
16. Tax
You are responsible for meeting your own tax obligations, whatever they are where you live. That covers anything you receive through nommo, such as the proceeds of reselling a work or a referral reward, and anything the law asks of you as a buyer. nommo does not work out, withhold or pay your taxes for you unless the law requires it to, and nothing on nommo is tax advice. If you are unsure what applies to you, ask a tax adviser or your tax authority. Where the law requires it, nommo may add tax to a price at checkout, and may have to give information about transactions to a tax authority.
17. What you collect is only on nommo
Every creator on nommo commits that a work they publish here is not for sale, streaming or free anywhere else for as long as it is here. That is part of what makes owning it mean something, and it is part of what you are buying. nommo does not search the internet for copies, so it cannot promise that no creator will ever break that commitment. What it does promise is to act when one does. The creator is given a short time to put it right. If they do not, the work is withdrawn from nommo: it can no longer be found, bought or resold here. It stays in your collection, and you are told what happened. If you paid for it through nommo, you then have a choice. You may keep it, and nommo returns to you part of what nommo itself earned on your purchase. Or you may give it back, within the time stated in the notice you are sent, and nommo returns to you everything it earned on your purchase. nommo never returns more than it earned, because the rest of what you paid went straight to the creator when you bought the work and nommo does not hold it. The creator owes you that part. nommo will ask them for it and pass on whatever it recovers, but cannot promise that it will be recovered. If you do nothing, you keep it. This choice is for the person who bought the work through nommo and still holds it; someone who was given the work, or bought it on resale, keeps it, and nothing is returned to them by nommo. If you find a work from nommo on sale, streaming or given away elsewhere, please tell nommo through the Contact page. A short preview, a creator's own announcement of the work, and a physical edition such as a record or a printed book are not a breach.
18. Sets, and changes to a work you own
A creator may sell several works together as a set, at one price. When you buy a set you own each work in it, on the same terms as any other work you buy. If you already own part of a set, you pay the difference between the price of the set and what you paid for the parts you hold. A creator may sometimes put right the file of a work you own: to fix a fault, supply a better copy, correct a mistake or bring a lesson up to date. Every such replacement is checked by nommo first, it must be the same work, and you will be told when it happens. What you own does not change: you keep the work for good. A creator may also add or change the words shown under the player, and subtitles, at any time.
19. nommo is in beta
nommo is in beta: a working platform being tried with real creators and collectors ahead of its full launch. During beta, nommo is operated by nommo Creative Lab, a business registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria. nommo Creative Lab is the party you are dealing with when you use nommo, and wherever these terms say "nommo", "we" or "us", that is who is meant. It is a registered business, not yet a company. Once the beta is over a company will be formed to run nommo, and nommo Technologies and the nommo Institute will be registered in their own right. These terms will name each of them when it exists. Everything you do here during beta is real. What you buy is yours, what you earn is paid to you, and payments are taken through nommo's payment processor on nommo's behalf. When the company is formed, your account and everything in it carries over to it: your collection, your works, your earnings and these terms. You will not have to do anything, and we will tell you when it happens. Because this is a beta, features can change, and things can go wrong more often than they will later. We will tell you about anything that affects what you own or what you are owed.
20. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as nommo grows. Material changes will be posted here with an updated date; continued use of nommo after a change means you accept the update.
Also read the Terms for creators and our Continuity policy.