Content and copyright policy

Publishing on ataa is reviewed first: you submit your course, we review it, and it goes live once it is approved. This page sets out what we accept, what we refuse, and what happens when somebody tells us a course is not its publisher's to sell.

Last updated12 September 2026

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Quality standards

Every paid course is measured against these. A course that misses one goes back to its author with the reasons — it is not deleted.

At least 30 minutes of video
Total across the course's video lessons. Shorter material belongs in a free lesson or merged into a fuller course.
720p or better
Screen or camera capture at no less than 720p, in a steady frame that does not clip the text on your slides.
Original, intelligible audio
The teacher's own voice, without background noise that swallows the words and without a synthetic voice reading a script.
No watermarked third-party material
No clips lifted from other courses, films or channels, and no stock decks carrying somebody else's logo.
A description that matches the course
Title, description and learning outcomes describe what is actually in the course — not what you intend to add later.

Prohibited content

These are refused at review and hidden if already published. Editing does not make them admissible.

Hate speech, or incitement against a person, a group or a religion.
Sexual content or graphic violence, or anything unsuitable for the stated audience.
Medical or pharmaceutical advice from anyone without a licence to give it.
Financial, investment or tax advice from anyone unlicensed, and promises of guaranteed returns.
Gambling, and high-risk speculation marketed as dependable income.
Hacking, stalking, or any material that trains people to harm others technically.
Counterfeit goods, circumvention of digital protection, and the sale of accounts or licence keys.
Anything unlawful under the laws of the United Arab Emirates or of the GCC countries we serve.

The ownership warranty in the teacher agreement

Every teacher warrants in the teacher agreement — accepted electronically, with the acceptance recorded with its timestamp and the network address it came from — that they own their content outright or hold the licences needed to sell it, and bears sole liability for any infringement of somebody else's rights. That signed warranty, together with the course record itself, is what we answer a complaint from.

The warranty is part of the teacher agreement, not a setting to be toggled.
A change to its wording requires a new version of the agreement, put to every teacher for acceptance.
The acceptance record and the course itself are read internally whenever a complaint is reviewed.

How we handle a copyright complaint

If you see your material on ataa without your permission, file it through the form or write to copyright@ataa.ai. This is what happens next:

Received
You get a reference immediately. The complaint is recorded with its time and enters the review queue.
Reviewed within 72 hours
Our team reads the complaint and compares it against the ownership warranty in the teacher agreement and the course itself.
Temporarily hidden
If the complaint is complete, the course leaves the marketplace immediately while we investigate. Nothing is deleted, everyone who bought it keeps access, and the earnings attached to it are frozen.
Counter-notice within 10 days
We write to the publisher at their registered email address and tell them the counter-notice path; they may file one with evidence of their ownership or licence inside that window.
Decided
Either the course returns to exactly the state it was in, or it stays hidden permanently with a separate decision on refunds. Both parties are told the outcome at their registered email address.

Repeat infringers

A teacher's account is suspended and their payouts held at 2 upheld complaints. The same rule appears in the teacher agreement.

Complaints made in bad faith

A complaint carries an affirmation that its information is accurate. Filing one you know to be false exposes you to liability and ends our acceptance of your complaints.

Uploaded files

We check the type of every file uploaded for a course — an image or an attachment — from its own contents rather than from its name or extension, and refuse anything outside the allowed list. Video lessons are never handed over as files at all: they are streamed from our delivery provider over short-lived signed links.

No automated malware scan runs on the platform today. If we are told a file is malicious we withhold it from delivery, have a person review it, and tell its publisher.

Seen your material on ataa?

The form takes two minutes and reaches the review team directly. Write to us by email instead if you have large attachments.