Copyright

Class Speedrun lets students upload their own course materials to study from, like lecture slides, notes and study guides. Each upload is stored privately for the student who added it.

We respect copyright. We follow the notice-and-takedown process in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512).

We never pass uploads on. Other students can't see them, and they are never on a public page. Only topic-level facts (like which topics a course's exams covered) are ever combined across students, never a file or its text.

We don't train AI on your files. Anthropic's business terms say it won't train its AI on what we send unless we allow it, and we haven't. Anthropic is the AI provider that reads uploads for us.

Send copyright notices and counter-notices to our designated agent, or use the forms on this page.

We're registering a designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office. Until that's done, send notices with the forms on this page or through the Contact page.

Your notice must be in writing (the form below counts) and include all of these:

1. Your physical or electronic signature. Typing your full name counts as an electronic signature.
2. Which copyrighted work you think was infringed. If it's several works, a list of them.
3. What in Class Speedrun you think infringes it, with enough detail for us to find it. Because uploads are private, you usually won't have a link: describe the material (for example, "my week 3 lecture slides titled ...") and the school and course it's for. If a student shared an app link or file id with you, include it.
4. How to reach you: your name, email, and a postal address or phone number.
5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use isn't authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for them.

If a notice is missing something, we'll write back to ask for it before we act.

We check that the notice is complete. For a complete, valid notice, we aim to remove or disable the material within 2 business days.

1. We remove the file and everything we made from it (its text, and the questions, cards and study items made from that text). We keep a short record of what was removed and why.
2. We tell the student who uploaded it, in the app, and give them the notice's reference so they can send a counter-notice.
3. We may share a copy of your notice, including your name and contact details, with the student who uploaded the material, so they can respond.
4. We keep the removed file in a locked place no student can open, only so we can put it back if a valid counter-notice requires it. After 120 days with no counter-notice open, we delete it for good.

If you think material you uploaded was removed by mistake or because it was misidentified (for example, you made it yourself, or you have permission), you can send a counter-notice. It must include all of these:

1. Your physical or electronic signature (typing your full name counts).
2. What was removed and where it was before (the file's name, and the class it was in). Include the notice's reference if you have it.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith the material was removed by mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, postal address and phone number.
5. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, if you live outside the United States, any judicial district where we can be found), and that you'll accept service of legal papers from the person who sent the notice or their agent.

When we get a valid counter-notice, we promptly send a copy to the person who sent the original notice. We tell them we'll put the material back in 10 business days. That copy includes your name and contact details.

We then put the material back no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after we received your counter-notice. The exception: the person who sent the notice tells us first that they've gone to court to stop the infringement. Business days are Monday to Friday, not counting U.S. federal holidays.

A counter-notice is a legal statement. If you're not sure, talk to someone you trust or a lawyer first.

We close the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe copyright. Here's how it works:

1. Each valid notice that leads us to remove material from an account gives that account one strike, however many files the notice covers.
2. Strikes count for 12 months.
3. At 2 strikes, adding new files is paused for 30 days. Everything already in the account keeps working.
4. At 3 strikes, we close the account and turn off sign-in.
5. These don't count as strikes: a notice that was withdrawn, a notice we found invalid or incomplete, a strike whose material was put back after a counter-notice, and a strike while a counter-notice is still being handled.
6. We may also close an account sooner for clear, deliberate infringement. A person checks every strike and every closure; nothing is closed automatically.

Lying in a notice or counter-notice can cost you. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, can be liable for damages, including costs and lawyers' fees.

Before you send a notice, think about whether the use could be fair use (for example, a student studying from their own course materials). If you're not sure, ask a lawyer.

To protect instructors' work, Class Speedrun refuses these: answer keys and solution sets for graded work, publishers' solution manuals, instructors' manuals and other instructor-only resources, test banks, and exams marked as secured (for example "must be returned" or "do not distribute").

Our AI reads a file's text to decide what kind of file it is. If it's one of these, we delete the stored file right away and don't use it for anything.

A student's own returned quizzes and exams, and practice exams their instructor released for study, are fine.

The practice questions we write are our own. We don't copy exam or quiz questions from uploaded materials into quizzes we make.

We keep notices, counter-notices, what was removed and every step we took. The law expects us to be able to show how we handled each one.

Records about a student's account (strikes and in-app notices) are deleted when that student deletes their account. The notice itself and the record of what was removed are kept, without the link to the deleted account.

This policy may change. Each version has a number and a date at the top of this page, and the Legal page lists what changed.