The fine print
Contributor agreement
You own what you write
Every chapter you publish on Forklore stays yours. The original author of a story owns the canon branch; if you fork from any chapter, you own everything you write from that point onward.
Forks are encouraged, not contested
By publishing a chapter on a public story, you grant every other reader the right to fork from it and continue the story in their own direction. You cannot revoke a fork after it exists — that's the whole point.
Attribution travels with the words
Forklore tracks who wrote which chapter on which branch. If a story ever gets adapted — audiobook, film, series — those records are how contributors get credited and, when we launch payouts, paid.
Platform license
You grant Forklore a non-exclusive, worldwide license to host your work, render it for readers, and showcase it for adaptation discussions. You can take your work down at any time; existing forks of it remain owned by their fork authors.
Be a decent neighbor
No copyrighted characters, no harassment, no doxxing. Reports go to a human. Repeated violations end the account.