The laws of copyright protect the digital content (“Content”) that is made available by OverDrive’s services. Copyrights in the Content are held by their respective owners. The Content embodies the intellectual property of a third party and is protected by law.
You shall use the Content only for your personal, non-commercial use. You shall use the Content in accordance with permissions granted by its rights holders or licensors (e.g., publishers and suppliers) and/or as supported by the Digital Rights Management (“DRM”) that may be applied to the Content. You are prohibited in any way from disabling or circumventing the DRM.
The Content and any other copyrighted materials shall not be modified, copied, distributed, repackaged, shared, displayed, revealed, extracted, emailed, transmitted, sold or otherwise transferred, conveyed or used, in a manner inconsistent with the rights of the copyright owner. You shall not redistribute, repackage, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, extract, reveal, adapt, edit, sub-license or otherwise transfer the Content. You are not granted any synchronization, public performance, promotional use, commercial sale, resale, reproduction or distribution rights for the Content.
Any and all Content that you use or access is provided on an “as-is” basis without any warranty of any kind, including, without limitation, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or completeness.
For Content accessed or downloaded from a library service, at the end of the lending period, your license to the Content terminates, and you may no longer use or access the Content. At the end of the lending period, you shall delete and/or destroy any and all borrowed copies of the Content. The rights holder(s), library/institution, and/or OverDrive reserve the right to suspend or terminate your ability to use or access the Content or an OverDrive service.
Please direct all questions about this Important Notice about Copyrighted Materials to: OverDrive, Inc., One OverDrive Way, Cleveland, Ohio 44125 USA, Attention: General Counsel.
Last updated February 2025.