Acceptable Use Policy
aitubenotes reads a video you point it at. That means somebody else's work usually passes through it, so this page is about what you are asking us to do on your behalf, and what you need to be entitled to ask.
What is aitubenotes for?
Making a written record of a video so you can read, search and refer back to it. Lectures, conference talks, coding walkthroughs, training material, chart-heavy analysis. It is a note-taking tool for a person studying something, and the whole policy below follows from that one sentence.
What do I need the right to do before submitting a video?
You need to be lawfully entitled to watch the video, and to make a written record of it for the purpose you have in mind. When you submit a URL you are confirming to us that you are.
For most people, most of the time, this is uncomplicated: a public talk you would otherwise sit through with a notepad. Note-taking for private study or research is treated generously by copyright law in many countries. Republishing somebody else's material is not, and the line between those two is yours to stay on the right side of.
You are also responsible for your own position with the platform the video is hosted on. Video platforms set their own rules about how their content may be accessed and recorded, and those rules apply to you as their user. We cannot give you permission you do not have, and nothing on this page should be read as telling you that you have it.
What must I not submit?
- Anything you cannot reach without defeating a restriction. Private videos, unlisted videos you were not given, members-only or paid-for content you have not paid for, or anything behind a sign-in that is not yours. We only process material that is openly available.
- Material that is unlawful where you are or where we are. That includes content that sexualises children, incites violence, or exists to harass a named person.
- Recordings of private conversations made without the consent that the law where they were recorded requires.
- Someone else's confidential material that you are not allowed to copy, including internal recordings from an employer.
- A whole catalogue. The service is for reading videos, not for systematically transcribing a channel, a course or a library in order to reproduce it elsewhere.
What must I not do with the notes?
- Publish them as if they were an original work of your own without saying where they came from. They are a record of somebody else's video, written by a machine.
- Republish them in a way that substitutes for the video itself, or that competes with the person who made it.
- Present them as a verified or authoritative account. They are not. See the AI disclosure for what the machine actually did and did not check.
- Strip out the marking that says the notes were machine-generated, where one is present, before passing them to somebody else.
What must I not do to the service?
- Share your sign-in link, or let other people submit jobs through your account.
- Automate submissions, resell access, or drive the service from a script rather than the app.
- Probe, scan or attempt to reach parts of the system that are not yours, or interfere with anyone else's use of it.
- Create additional accounts to get more than one trial allowance.
I own a video that was processed. How do I get it removed?
Write to the address printed above with the video URL and enough detail to identify what you are asking about, and tell us what you would like removed. We will act on a well-founded request promptly, delete the stored output, and tell you when it is done.
You do not need a lawyer to write that email and we will not ask you for one. If you would rather send a formal notice under the copyright law of your country, that is fine too, and the same address receives it.
What happens if somebody breaks this policy?
We refuse the job, or stop it if it has started. For something serious or repeated we suspend or close the account, and where a plan is cancelled for a breach we do not refund the period in progress. Where the law requires us to report something, we report it.
We would much rather ask you about it first, and for anything that looks like a misunderstanding rather than a deliberate act, that is what we will do.
Does this policy change?
Yes, as the service grows and as we learn what actually causes problems. The date it last changed is printed above. A change that makes this policy meaningfully stricter is notified the same way a change to the Terms of Service is, and this policy forms part of those terms.