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. 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.
3. 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.
4. Quality 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Payouts
You keep 70% of every sale; nommo keeps 30% to run the platform. Payouts route directly to your connected Stripe account -- you'll need to complete Stripe's own onboarding (identity verification, bank details) before you can receive funds. nommo does not hold your payout in a delayed queue; Stripe's standard payout timing applies.
8. Removal and termination
We may remove a work or suspend an account for violating these terms -- most often, an unresolved rights issue 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.