Legal Documents Built for Content Creators

When you sell a course, a membership, a paid newsletter, or a download, the buyer gets a license to access your work while you keep ownership of it. Your terms have to say what that license covers, how long access lasts, what the buyer may do with the material, and what counts as a breach. A buyer who never agreed to those limits is hard to hold to them later.

Content businesses get into disputes over login sharing, refund requests after a download has already been delivered, and the reuse of paid material. A product the buyer can keep after a chargeback needs tighter refund rules than shipped goods, so your terms need specific language on access revocation, password sharing, and what happens to downloaded files when someone cancels.

Your content is copyrighted the moment you create it, and a copyright notice plus written use restrictions in your terms make enforcement easier when someone copies a course or reposts gated material. Registration with the U.S. Copyright Office puts you on stronger footing if you ever have to sue, while your terms of use carry the day-to-day rules that tell buyers what they can redistribute and what they can't.

If you run a membership or any recurring plan, the auto-renewal laws apply to you the same way they apply to software. California's amended Automatic Renewal Law, effective July 1, 2025, requires consent to the renewal terms, online cancellation, and a reminder before a free trial converts, and federal enforcement under the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act continues even after the FTC's click-to-cancel rule was vacated in 2025.

TermsBuilder builds the rules that fit your model, because a paid community, a download shop, and a cohort course each license access differently. Our questionnaire asks how access is granted, what's licensed, what happens after cancellation, and which tools collect buyer data, then assembles terms and a privacy policy that fit the product you sell.