Draft author contract

Draft. This is a plain-language draft of the agreement we intend to offer authors. It is pending legal review, it is not a binding offer, and it is not legal advice. The reviewed version will be published here before it applies to anyone.

These are the terms we intend to offer authors. The final agreement will contain more detail, without changing the commitments below.

1. License

You grant povesta a non-exclusive license to host, display, and distribute your work on the platform. That is the entire grant: no ownership, no adaptation rights, no right to license your work to anyone else.

2. Your rights

Your rights stay yours: copyright, print, audio, translation, film, and every other right to your work. Publishing on povesta does not limit what you do with your work anywhere else.

3. No exclusivity

You may publish the same work anywhere else, at the same time, on any terms. We will never ask for exclusivity — not for money, not for promotion, not ever.

4. Termination and reversion

You can end this agreement at any time by asking us. The license ends with it and your work is taken off the platform. There is no notice period or penalty, and nothing prevents you from leaving.

5. Export

You can export everything you write, in open, standard formats, at any time — including on your way out.

6. No AI training

We do not use your writing to train AI models, ours or anyone else’s, and we do not sell or license it for training. Scraping protection is on by default.

7. Our commission

Paid features are off during the alpha. When payouts launch, our commission on your earnings will stay within the published 10–15% range, never above it. We will publish the exact rate before paid features launch and announce any change within that range publicly and in advance.

8. No gag clause

You are free to talk about this agreement, your earnings, and your experience on povesta, including criticism. Neither the contract nor the numbers are confidential.

9. How you accept the agreement

There is nothing to sign. This agreement is part of the terms of service, and you accept it when you start publishing. We record your acceptance, including the version and language of the text, and keep every version publicly available. The law we operate under requires a signature only for an exclusive license — exactly what §3 rules out, and that is not an accident. If a print edition, commissioned work, or other arrangement needs additional terms, we will put them in a separate document for you to sign, not quietly add them to this agreement.