Between [Legal Entity Name] ("Suno Novels", "we") and you, the creator. It applies from the moment your creator account is approved, and it incorporates the Terms of Service, Copyright and Rights Policy, Content Policy and Privacy Policy.
1. What you are
An independent creator. Not our employee, agent, or partner. You decide what you make; you carry the responsibility for it.
2. What you grant us
For each work you publish, a non-exclusive, worldwide licence, for as long as it is published plus the wind-down period in clause 11, to:
- host, store, encode, re-encode, segment, and encrypt it for delivery;
- stream it and allow downloads within our apps to listeners you have authorised through your pricing;
- use its title, cover art, synopsis, and short excerpts (up to 60 seconds) to promote it and the service;
- allow other creators to sell it only if you list it in the shared library, on the split you agree, and only for as long as that listing stands.
You keep ownership. We claim no rights in your work beyond this licence. You can unpublish at any time, subject to clause 11.
3. What you promise us (rights warranty)
For every work you upload, you warrant that:
- You own it, or you hold a written licence that permits commercial audio distribution of it in every territory where we make it available.
- It does not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, personality rights, or privacy.
- If it is a translation, an adaptation, a retelling, or is otherwise derived from someone else's work, you hold a licence from the owner of that underlying work, and you have uploaded that licence to us before selling it. Translating a novel does not create a new work you own. This is the most common way creators get themselves and us sued, so we are explicit about it.
- If it is generated wholly or partly by AI, you have declared that on upload, and the prompts, sources, and inputs you used did not require anyone else's permission.
- If it names, voices, or depicts a real person, you have the consent you need.
- You will keep the licences and consents on file and produce them within 7 days of our asking.
You must declare each work's origin at upload — original, licensed (with the document), or public domain (with the basis). A false declaration is a material breach.
4. Money
- You set the price of your packages and bundles, within any floor or ceiling we publish.
- We deduct payment-gateway fees and taxes, then take the platform commission for your tier, currently: [Free 30% · Growth 20% · Pro 12%]. The rest is yours. Your rate is shown in your dashboard and changes only with 30 days' notice.
- Platform all-access revenue is pooled and shared out in proportion to validated listening minutes in the period, after our commission. Plays that fail our validity checks — bots, impossible listening times, manipulated devices — do not count and may be clawed back.
- Coupons you issue are funded from your share, not ours. Issuing one reserves its maximum cost against your balance; you cannot issue a coupon you cannot fund.
- Shared library: when someone else sells your work, the split you agreed in the listing — uploader / seller / platform — is applied to every sale, in one accounting transaction.
- Refunds and chargebacks are reversed out of your earnings, including after they have accrued.
5. Payouts
- Paid monthly, for amounts above ₹[500], after a [7]-day hold from accrual to cover refunds and chargebacks.
- KYC (PAN, bank or UPI details) must be complete and verified first. Tax is withheld where the law requires it, and you are given the certificate.
- Statements reconcile to the paisa and are downloadable. If you think one is wrong, tell us within 60 days and we will investigate.
- Amounts in escrow under clause 8, or subject to an unresolved dispute, are not payable and do not count towards your threshold.
6. Storage and usage
Your tier includes storage of [5 / 50 / 250] GB. Uploads that would exceed it are refused before they start. We may charge for overage, with notice. Abandoned drafts may be cleaned up after [12] months' notice to you.
7. What you must not publish
The Content Policy. Also: no work you do not have the rights to, no impersonation of another creator or narrator, no artificially inflated plays, and nothing that would put our payment partners in breach of their rules.
8. Copyright complaints — freeze, escrow, and resolution
Read this clause before you upload anything. It is the whole point of the rights warranty in clause 3.
If a substantiated copyright complaint is made about a work on your account — meaning one that comes from a verified rights-holder account, carries Class A evidence, and survives our machine comparison against the accused audio — then, as set out in the Copyright and Rights Policy:
- The disputed work is actioned first, not your whole account. It is taken down (removal notice) or stays up with its revenue diverted to escrow (rights claim), within 36 hours. If you are in good standing — verified identity, no live strike, licence documents on file for everything you declared as licensed — your other works stay live, keep earning, and keep paying out while the facts are established.
- Your account is frozen at the point the complaint is upheld, or you fail to answer within 10 days, or you cannot produce a licence you declared within 7 days of our asking, or a second work on your account draws an upheld complaint, or a court order names you. A frozen account cannot publish, withdraw earnings, or issue coupons; scheduled publishes are cancelled; earnings keep being recorded; you keep read access to your dashboard, your statements, and the full dispute record including the evidence filed against you.
- Money stops. Everything connected to the disputed work — already accrued and not yet paid, in the hold period, and earned from that moment on — is moved into a ring-fenced escrow for the dispute. It is not paid to the complainant on an allegation; it is held.
- You may contest within 10 days, with evidence — your licence, your assignment, proof the work is original or in the public domain. We forward your counter-notice, including your legal name and contact details, to the complainant. If they do not produce a court order within 21 days, we may restore the work and release the escrow to you.
- The dispute ends only on a written settlement agreement signed by both parties and given to us, an order of a court or competent authority, your acceptance of the claim, withdrawal of the complaint, or the 21-day period passing with no order. We will not lift a freeze on a verbal assurance, an apology, or a promise to sort it out later.
- On resolution against you, the escrowed money is paid to the rightful owner, net of gateway fees, taxes, refunds already made to listeners, and platform commission — with a statement reconciling every rupee. On resolution in your favour, it is released to you.
- Whether the work stays on Suno Novels afterwards is the rights holder's decision, not yours: they may have it removed, have it transferred to their own account, licence it to you on agreed terms, or leave it available free. We implement their choice.
- Strikes: an uncontested removal notice is one strike; a strike expires after 90 days; three live strikes terminate this agreement and remove all your works. A strike reversed on appeal or by the 21-day rule is erased, not merely expired. Circumventing a termination with a new account is itself a breach.
- What we owe you against baseless claims. Anyone can allege anything; that is not enough to touch your account. A complaint is closed at intake unless it comes from a verified rights-holder account and carries Class A evidence, including the original work, which we machine-compare against your audio before anything automatic happens. A complaint that shows no meaningful similarity cannot take your work down. Complainants file under penalty of perjury and are liable to you for a false claim; two baseless complaints cost them their verification, three cost them the ability to file at all. Complaints arriving in a burst, from linked accounts, or within 24 hours of your work trending are reviewed by a human before they can do anything. If you can produce your licence within 48 hours, the freeze is suspended and your work restored pending review. And if a complainant contacts you demanding money to withdraw, send it to [copyright@sunonovels.top] — we treat pay-to-withdraw as abuse of the process, and we will act against them, not you.
You indemnify us against every claim, damage, and cost — including reasonable legal fees and any amount we pay a rights holder — arising from content you uploaded without the rights. This survives termination, and it is not limited by any cap elsewhere in our terms.
9. Confidentiality and data
Aggregate analytics about your works are yours to see and use. Listener identities, contact details, and individual listening histories are not, and we will never give them to you.
10. Changes
We may change this agreement with 30 days' notice. Commission changes never apply retroactively to sales already made. If you do not accept a change, you may unpublish and close your account under clause 11, and we will pay out everything undisputed.
11. Ending it
- You may unpublish a work or close your account at any time. Listeners who already bought access keep it until their entitlement expires — we will not strand a paying listener — and the work stays available to those listeners only, for that period.
- We may suspend or end this agreement for a material breach, for fraud or manipulation, for three live copyright strikes, or where the law requires it. Where we can give notice and a chance to fix it, we will.
- On termination, undisputed earnings are paid after the hold period. Escrowed and disputed amounts follow clause 8.
- Clauses 3, 8, 9 and this clause survive.
12. Law
Governed by the laws of India; the courts at [city] have exclusive jurisdiction. Talk to our Grievance Officer first: [Name], [grievance@sunonovels.top], [phone].
Acknowledged on account approval. Your dashboard records the version you accepted and the date. We keep every version.