Guide Commercial Use

Using Scholarly Content Commercially

You can use content you create on Scholarly for commercial projects. Flashcards, notes, slides, video lectures, podcasts, research reports, and AI chat responses you generate belong to you, and you are free to use them in your own work -- paid or otherwise.

Your rights to lawfully created outputs continue after you cancel a subscription or close your account. Ownership applies to the extent rights exist under applicable law; third-party material keeps its own rights and licenses.

What You Can Do

You are allowed to:

  • Turn an internal policy or SOP into onboarding material you use with paid staff or clients.
  • Include AI-generated slides or video lectures in a commercial course, workshop, or enablement programme.
  • Publish research reports, articles, or notes you created with Scholarly.
  • Use generated flashcards, summaries, or study guides in paid tutoring or certification prep.
  • Sell or distribute content you generated, as long as you have the right to use the underlying source material.

See Turning Work Documents into Training Material for the practical workflow.

Work Created in a Team Workspace

Content created inside a shared team workspace is governed by the same ownership terms, but access to it follows the workspace rather than the individual. Teammates can open what is shared with the team, and a team-owned project stays with the team if the person who created it leaves.

See the Commercial Use Policy for the exact terms, and Projects for how team-owned projects and transfers work day to day.

What You Still Need to Check

Scholarly does not own your generated content, but you are still responsible for making sure the underlying sources are legal to use. That means:

  • Copyrighted material -- If you uploaded a textbook, research paper, or other copyrighted source, you still need the right to redistribute derivative work. Check the permissions or legal exceptions that apply to your use; commercial redistribution may require additional rights.
  • Third-party content -- Images, quotes, and data pulled from the web (for example, during Deep Research) remain subject to their original licenses.
  • Connected sources -- Files you use through a Google Drive connection remain yours and keep their own permissions. Scholarly reads only the files you select. See Connections.
  • Accuracy -- AI output can contain mistakes. Review and verify generated content before using it in professional or academic work.

Attribution

Attribution is optional but appreciated. If you publish or share content made with Scholarly, a note like "Generated with Scholarly" is welcome but never required.

Full Policy

For the full legal terms, read the Commercial Use Policy. This help page is a plain-language summary -- the policy page is the authoritative version.

Questions

Not sure whether a specific use case is allowed? Email us at hello@scholarly.so and we will help you figure it out.

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