Model 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.

One page, no fine print. This is the whole shape of the deal — the final text will be longer, but the deal will not change.

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

You keep every right you walked in with — copyright, print, audio, translation, film, all of it. Publishing on povesta limits nothing 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, on request. The license ends with it and your work comes down. No notice period, no penalty, no lock-in.

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. Economics

Our take on your earnings stays within the published band: 10–15%, never above. The exact number is published before payouts go live, and any change within the band is announced in advance, in the open.

8. No gag clause

Nothing in this agreement stops you from talking about it — the terms, your earnings, or your experience here. Public contract, public numbers, criticism included.

9. How this is agreed

There is no signing ceremony. This agreement is part of the terms of service: you accept it when you start publishing, and your acceptance is recorded with the version and language of the text you accepted, and the archive of every version stays public. 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 anything ever needs more than this page, such as a print edition or a commissioned work, it will be a separate document you actually sign — never a quiet edit to these terms.