Neovella: Instantly co-author stories with your friends

Re:Neovella: Instantly co-author stories with your friends by jiffylu on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @02:52AM (#2220522)

So... they own the stories we create? I was going to say, this would be a great way to write open source text books but not if Neovella owns the content.

"2. Copyright. The content, organization, graphics, design, and other matters related to and created in Neovella are protected under applicable copyrights and other proprietary laws, including but not limited to intellectual property laws. The copying, reproduction, use, modification or publication by you of any such matters or any part of Neovella is strictly prohibited, without our express prior written permission."

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Re:Neovella: Instantly co-author stories with your friends by neoveller on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @03:02AM (#2220540)

Well we won't sue anyone, but the idea is that once the site becomes competitive, we can start pushing the top neovellas through Amazon Singles and then use the percent share calculation we have to distribute a share (more than our own) of royalties back to the authors in proportion to their contributions to the entire collection of short stories.

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Re:Neovella: Instantly co-author stories with your friends by wccrawford on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @06:31AM (#2220866)

Yup. This prevents me from considering using the site.

Also, it's probably not enforceable. You can't sign away your rights. Anything you write is YOUR copyright, not some machine's. They can say that have unrevokable rights to publish and distribute, but they can't take your rights away.

And under that, I -still- wouldn't use it.

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