Your words. Your rights.

You own your work. Full stop.

You write it, you own it. The moment you type a word and hit publish, that story belongs to you — not to us. Fictionry never claims copyright over anything you create. There's no fine print hiding a rights grab, no clause that transfers ownership to us, and no gotchas buried in legalese. Your stories are yours, exactly as they were before you ever heard of Fictionry.

What that means in practice

• You keep 100% of your copyright — always.
• We can't sell, license, or sublicense your work to anyone.
• We can't claim your stories as ours — not in marketing, not legally, not ever.
• You can publish your work anywhere else at the same time. We're non-exclusive.
• You can delete your stories whenever you want. They're gone — we don't keep copies.

What Fictionry can do

To actually run the platform, we need a narrow, limited licence to display your work. Concretely: we show your chapters to readers, generate short preview snippets for discovery, and create share images (like Open Graph previews) when someone links to your story. That's it. We only do what's needed to operate the site, and that licence ends the moment you delete your content.

Taking your work with you

If you decide to leave Fictionry — for any reason, at any time — your words go with you. We have no claim on them. Delete your stories from your dashboard and they're gone. If Fictionry ever shut down, your copyright would be completely unaffected. We hold nothing over your work.

Your earnings are yours too

When readers choose to support you directly, that money is yours. Fictionry takes a small platform fee (you can always see the exact percentage in your author dashboard) — the rest goes straight to you via Stripe. We take a platform fee for running the infrastructure, not a cut of your creative rights.

The legal version

If you want the formal language, the relevant section is Section 4 (User Content) of our Terms of Service. It says the same things — just in lawyer-speak.