Terms for creators
This is a plain-English summary of how nommo works for creators, not a substitute for your own legal advice.
1. What you can sell
You may only upload work you own outright or have full rights to sell, your own compositions, recordings, writing, art, photography, film or video. If a work contains someone else's contribution (a co-writer, a sample, licensed footage, a session musician), you're confirming you've actually cleared it before it goes on nommo. Uploading work you don't have the rights to is a violation of these terms and may result in removal and account termination.
2. Exclusivity: nommo is where it lives
A work you list on nommo must be listed on nommo only. This is not a bureaucratic formality, it is the foundation of the whole model. Value comes from where a thing can be found: when a work is available everywhere, it is scarce nowhere, and scarcity is what gives a collector's purchase real meaning. By publishing a work on nommo you are committing that the same work, in the same or substantially similar form, will not be concurrently listed for sale, streaming, or free distribution on any other platform (including your own site, another marketplace, or a streaming service) for as long as it remains on nommo. If you'd like to sell a work elsewhere too, remove it from nommo first. Violating exclusivity is treated as a material breach of these terms and may result in the work and your account being removed.
3. Responsible use of AI
nommo is not against AI. Plenty of great independent work today involves it somewhere in the process. What we ask is honesty: when you upload, you'll tell us whether AI was not involved, used as a tool (editing, mastering, upscaling, etc.), or primarily generated the work. Misrepresenting AI-generated work as fully human-made is a violation of these terms. Work flagged as AI-generated without an adequate disclosure is held from the public shelf pending a quick review, this isn't a judgment on the work itself, just a check that collectors know what they're buying. This cuts both ways: nommo does not use the creative work you upload, or your fans' data, to train AI models, ours or any third party's. Your catalog is not a training set.
4. Registering the right category
When you upload, we'll ask you to pick a rights category (music/sound recording, literary work, visual art, audiovisual work, or other) and we'll show you plain-English guidance on what that means for protecting your work, for example, registering a song with a copyright office and joining a PRO, or registering a finished film as an audiovisual work rather than just its script. This guidance is provided to help you protect your own economic interests as an independent artist. It is not legal advice, and nommo is not a law firm; for anything high-value, talk to your local copyright office or an intellectual property attorney.
5. Quality, age-rating and content standards
Uploads go through a light, fast QA check, not a gatekeeper. Work is published immediately unless it's flagged (most commonly for an AI disclosure issue) or otherwise found to violate these terms, in which case it's held or removed and you'll be notified why. We don't allow illegal content, content that infringes someone else's rights, or content that violates our child-safety and hate-speech policies, regardless of format. nommo is not, and will never become, a platform for hardcore or sexually explicit adult content; it is not a substitute for dedicated adult platforms or messaging apps built for that purpose. Every work must be appropriately age-rated and labeled for its actual content, and creators are responsible for rating their own work honestly at upload.
6. What collectors get when they buy
"Buy once, own forever" means the collector gets a personal license to keep and enjoy the specific work they bought, permanently, without a subscription. Unless you explicitly grant more (for example, a commercial license sold separately), you retain the underlying copyright and any rights beyond personal enjoyment, collectors are not buying the right to resell, redistribute, broadcast, or commercially exploit your work.
7. Broadcast licensing
This is the "explicitly grant more" mentioned above. From your dashboard you can opt a specific work into broadcast licensing, a permission for a verified DJ, radio station, or TV station to publicly perform that work, entirely separate from a collector's purchase. It's off by default, work is only licensable if you turn it on, and it never affects that work's edition size, resale eligibility, or ownership history, a broadcast license is not a Purchase and doesn't create one. Self-serve licenses (you set a flat price, a verified broadcaster pays it directly) carry nommo's standard 30% platform fee, the same rate and the same costs as an ordinary sale. A bespoke, negotiated license carries either the standard 30% (when nommo is the one who found and brought in the broadcaster) or a lower 15% facilitation fee (when the broadcaster or you brought the deal to nommo directly), depending on who actually sourced it. Either way, the fee is shown up front before anything is confirmed. Verifying a broadcaster is a real, human review, not an automated identity check, we look at every application ourselves.
8. Lending and gifting
Collectors who buy your work can lend it temporarily (their access pauses while it's out on loan, and it returns to them automatically when the loan ends) or gift it permanently to someone else on nommo. No file ever changes hands in either case, it's a transfer of access on nommo's systems. nommo is not a party to disputes between a lender and a recipient.
9. Payouts
You keep 70% of every sale; nommo keeps 30% to run the platform. This split is calculated on what's left after your payment processor's own transaction fee, a standard charge (typically 2 to 5%, depending on the card and region) that any processor takes to move money securely, whether that's Flutterwave or card payouts. That fee applies once, to that specific sale. It is not a recurring charge, a listing fee, or anything you pay just to be on nommo. Payouts route directly to your connected payout account, card payouts or Flutterwave depending on what's available in your region and what's active at the time (card payouts are currently paused platform-wide for an account review, Flutterwave is the live rail in the meantime). Either way you'll need to complete that processor's own onboarding (identity verification, bank details) before you can receive funds. nommo does not hold your payout in a delayed queue; your processor's standard payout timing applies.
10. Resale royalties
When a collector resells a work they bought (see Heirloom in the Terms for collectors), you earn a 10% royalty on that resale, automatically, for as long as the work keeps changing hands on nommo, no action needed on your part. This only applies to resales that happen on nommo itself: it's how nommo splits proceeds on its own marketplace, not a legal claim over what a collector does with a copy outside nommo. A newly-acquired work has a holding period before its owner can resell it (currently 256 days), so resale is a deliberate, occasional event, not a way to flip a purchase for a quick markup.
11. Copyright notices
If someone believes a work you've uploaded infringes their copyright, they can file a notice through our copyright notice form. We'll review it and may remove or restrict access to the work while we do. If you believe a notice filed against your own work is mistaken or made in bad faith, contact us and explain why, we look at both sides before taking permanent action.
12. Removal and termination
We may remove a work or suspend an account for violating these terms, most often, an unresolved rights issue, a broken exclusivity commitment, or a misrepresented AI disclosure. Where possible we'll tell you why and give you a chance to fix it. Purchases already completed before a removal are not automatically refunded to collectors unless the removal was due to your own violation of these terms.
13. No warranty on the platform
nommo is provided "as is." We work to keep the shelf running and your payouts flowing, but we don't guarantee uninterrupted availability, and we're not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from platform downtime.
14. How your manuscript becomes a book
The reader doesn't print your manuscript, it reflows it. Every reader sees pages sized to their own screen, font size, and line spacing, so "page 47" means something different to two different people reading the same book, and neither of those page numbers will match the page numbers in your original manuscript file. Format with that in mind: use real headings and paragraph breaks to structure your book rather than manual page breaks or blank lines meant to force a new page, and don't design around a specific line landing at the top or bottom of a page, it won't, not for every reader. Chapter breaks are the one division the reader always honors exactly as you set them; everything inside a chapter reflows. This isn't a limitation we're apologizing for, it's the same trade every serious e-reader (Kindle, Apple Books) makes in exchange for text that's actually comfortable to read on whatever device someone opens it on, and we'd rather tell you that before you publish than have you discover it after.
15. What we do with your manuscript file
Your manuscript is used for one thing: rendering the book you uploaded, on the reader, for people who've bought it or are previewing it. It is not used to train AI models, ours or anyone else's (see above), and we don't repurpose it for anything beyond showing it back to the people you've chosen to show it to.
16. 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 collectors, which apply to you too whenever you buy on nommo.