Copyright, Database Rights & Takedown Policy

1. Not Affiliated & Not Endorsed

qiboo.ai is an independent evidence-aggregation and news platform. We are not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or otherwise connected to any of the journals, publishers, databases, indexes (such as PubMed/MEDLINE or the U.S. National Library of Medicine), news outlets, institutions or authors whose work we reference or link to. All trademarks, journal names, logos and product names are the property of their respective owners and are used here only for nominative, referential identification — to tell you where information came from. Their appearance does not imply any partnership, affiliation or endorsement in either direction.

2. What We Publish — and What We Don't

qiboo.ai is an aggregation, citation and educational platform. For each indexed study or news item we generally store and display:

• Bibliographic facts — title, author(s), journal/source name, year, DOI and PMID
• A short, original editorial summary and an evidence grade written in our own words
• A prominent link out to the original source, where the full text, abstract and any licensed copy live

We do not attempt to reproduce or host full third-party abstracts, full-text articles, figures, tables or PDFs at scale. Where you want the complete work, you follow our link to the publisher or index that holds the rights and the licence.

3. Facts, Citations & the Database Right

Individual bibliographic data — a title, an author name, a journal, a year, a DOI or a PMID — are facts, and facts are not protected by copyright (a principle long established in, for example, Feist v. Rural in the United States). qiboo.ai uses such facts on a per-item, citation basis to identify and point to the original source.

We also recognise that, separately from copyright, the European Union and Türkiye grant a sui generis database right to the maker of a database whose contents required substantial investment (EU Database Directive 96/9/EC, Article 7; Türkiye Law No. 5846 (FSEK) Ek Madde 8). This right can be infringed by extracting or re-utilising a substantial part of a single protected database, even where the individual items are mere facts. Our policy is therefore to (a) draw facts from multiple independent and openly available sources, (b) avoid extracting a substantial part of any one third-party database, and (c) link back to the source rather than substituting for it. If you are a database maker who believes our use has taken a substantial part of your database, contact us using Section 10 and we will review and, where appropriate, reduce or remove the material.

4. Abstracts & Snippets

Indexing services such as PubMed make abstracts visible, but they do not own or license away the copyright in those abstracts — that copyright typically remains with the publisher or the authors. For this reason qiboo.ai does not display full third-party abstracts at scale. Where some source text is shown, it is limited to a short snippet for identification, accompanied by a clear link to the original source where the full abstract can be read under the rights-holder's own terms. If you believe a snippet on qiboo.ai is too long or otherwise exceeds fair/lawful use, tell us (Section 10) and we will shorten or remove it.

5. Journal & Source Names

We identify sources by their plain-text name (for example, "Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies"). This is nominative, referential use intended only to attribute information to its origin. We do not present source names, badges or any logo wall in a way meant to suggest endorsement of, affiliation with, or approval by those sources — see Section 1.

6. AI Summaries & Appraisals

Some qiboo.ai features use AI to produce study summaries, plain-language explanations and critical appraisals. Facts and ideas are free to convey; what is protected is a source's particular expression. Our generation prompts are designed to summarise in our own words and not quote or reproduce source text, so that the output communicates facts in new, abstractive wording. Every AI-assisted item carries attribution and a link to the underlying source. AI output can contain errors; it is editorial and educational, not the original work, and is not a substitute for reading the source. If you believe an AI-generated item reproduces protected expression from your work, contact us (Section 10).

7. News & Very Short Extracts

For news we link out to the publisher and show only a very short extract (headline plus a brief lead) for identification — we do not frame, embed or reproduce full articles, and we respect press-publishers' rights under Article 15 of the EU DSM Directive (2019/790). Separately from copyright, we treat a site's robots.txt and Terms of Service as contractual/technical constraints and honour them (see Section 9). If you are a publisher who would prefer a different treatment — shorter extract, no extract, or removal — contact us (Section 10).

8. Our Own Content & Licensing

Our original material — editorial summaries, evidence grades, plain-language explanations, curated datasets, platform design, branding and software — is the property of qiboo.ai and is protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. You may freely link to our pages and cite us with attribution. You may not scrape, bulk-copy, re-host or republish our editorial content or datasets without a written licence. For licensing, syndication or data-partnership inquiries, email partnerships@qiboo.ai.

9. robots.txt & Text-and-Data-Mining (TDM) Opt-Outs

qiboo.ai honours machine-readable access rules. Specifically, we:

• Respect robots.txt directives and standard crawl-delay / disallow rules on the sites we reference;
• Honour machine-readable text-and-data-mining (TDM) reservations / opt-outs (the rights-reservation contemplated by Article 4 of the EU DSM Directive 2019/790);
• Do not attempt to bypass paywalls, logins, rate limits or other technical access controls; and
• Treat a site's Terms of Service as a contractual constraint independent of copyright.

If you operate a source and want qiboo.ai to stop accessing or referencing your site — whether by an updated robots.txt / TDM signal or by direct request — contact us (Section 10) and we will comply promptly.

10. How to File a Takedown / Removal Request

If you are a rights-holder (or their authorised agent) and you believe content on qiboo.ai infringes your copyright, your database right, or another right — or breaches your robots.txt / Terms — send a notice to copyright@qiboo.ai including:

• Your name, organisation, postal address, email and phone number;
• Identification of the work or database you say is infringed (for example, a DOI, URL or citation);
• The specific qiboo.ai URL(s) where the material appears, so we can locate it;
• The right you are asserting (copyright, EU/Türkiye database right, press-publisher right, robots.txt / TDM opt-out, trademark, etc.);
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the rights-holder, its agent, or the law;
• A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, where applicable, that you are authorised to act on the rights-holder's behalf; and
• Your physical or electronic signature.

We aim to acknowledge complete notices and to remove, shorten, or disable access to the affected material without undue delay — generally within a few business days. You may submit a notice in English. We may ask for clarification if a notice is incomplete.

11. Counter-Notice

If you posted material that was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to copyright@qiboo.ai with your contact details, identification of the removed material and its former location, and a good-faith statement that the material was removed in error. We will review counter-notices in good faith and may restore material where the law and the circumstances allow.

12. Repeat Infringers

In appropriate circumstances we will limit, suspend or terminate the access of users or contributors who repeatedly infringe the rights of others.

13. Contact

For copyright, database-right and takedown matters, the fastest route is email:

This page provides general information about how qiboo.ai handles third-party content; it is not legal advice.