RepresentingEnvy
En-Chan Queen Vampy!
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No, that would be the people who get contracted because they are suckers.Vampires
No, that would be the people who get contracted because they are suckers.Vampires
leeches?It will happen. Just wait for the WN recruiter peoples. I forgot what they are called.
Holy Inquisition, this is wild. I knew that WN isn't a good place (because of the community) but this is just on another level. Makes me feel good that I don't have any original stories on their site.Here are some updates:
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Holy shit. That's rough. I knew they were scummy; I read the warnings on other sites before, but they changed nothing, it seems. I am no lawyer, but hell, reading this is totally against the whole "you keep your copyright" shtick they try to catch you with. And it's not all:
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This made me chuckle. They can impersonate you. Yep. They can make a fake account essentially and post it in your name, saying it is a promotion. Oh, and you have to help with it and cooperate. Even better, if you are successful, they can send you out to promote it if they say so. Yes, the travel expenses are paid for, and by then, you will probably be pretty famous and whatnot, which is nice. But the part where they can say, to come and bring your own merch for the occasion, and there are no specifications if that merch is going to be paid by them (most likely not), is funny.
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They can also freely translate it. No questions asked. And the wording itself suggests to me that anything related to the work is theirs. My stories are interconnected and play in a shared universe. Signing over one book would probably mean I also give up my others... But I am not 100% on that, but that is what I feel like.
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Tl;dr - they calculate the expenses and how much you may get from the earnings. You can ask how they calculated it and what statistics they used for it, but they will say, as in the text you can read, by the same data you can access on the website. Yeah, sure, and I am going to believe that you paid me with Webnovel's gift data or something.
But, here comes the bestest, mostest, superest part:
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They can "ask," more like TELL you to rewrite parts if they don't like it. They can censor you, essentially. You don't like it? Get fucked; here are damages; pay us back, and this all is ours now. YOINK.
Read 9.4 in its entirety, this shit is wild.
I get that they need to defend their assets, but come on, the reasons why are so vague it is laughable. I get it if the author is plagiarizing or something, but they don't specify what breaching an agreement really means. It includes the fact that if they tell you to modify parts of your story, you refuse to do so.
They can take your whole story away and make it their own. They already have your account that they can use; they specify that they can finish the story if they want it or give it to someone else to pick it up. Either way, you are fucked; this is our story now. YOINK. Oh, and yeah, here are the damages; pay us back 100%. What, you were paid for two years? Pay two years back bitch; it was not payment; it was a loan!
There are still more:
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Even if they go bankrupt or just dissolve, the contract still holds. They can give it to someone else, and it will still be active. You don't get out, buddy; you signed it, and your soul is ours.
Welp, nah. I'm good. I remain a hobby writer instead. At least I am free.
Yep, saying it will be about how the stats come along is the easiest way to say we ain't payin' you shit.Nothing in that says we'll pay this much for so many words or so many views.
This is so brutal, it is just a bit short of slavery. Yet I still hear people saying, "It's a good contract if follow it". Where are they right now?Here are some updates:
View attachment 26296
View attachment 26297
Holy shit. That's rough. I knew they were scummy; I read the warnings on other sites before, but they changed nothing, it seems. I am no lawyer, but hell, reading this is totally against the whole "you keep your copyright" shtick they try to catch you with. And it's not all:
View attachment 26302
This made me chuckle. They can impersonate you. Yep. They can make a fake account essentially and post it in your name, saying it is a promotion. Oh, and you have to help with it and cooperate. Even better, if you are successful, they can send you out to promote it if they say so. Yes, the travel expenses are paid for, and by then, you will probably be pretty famous and whatnot, which is nice. But the part where they can say, to come and bring your own merch for the occasion, and there are no specifications if that merch is going to be paid by them (most likely not), is funny.
View attachment 26303
They can also freely translate it. No questions asked. And the wording itself suggests to me that anything related to the work is theirs. My stories are interconnected and play in a shared universe. Signing over one book would probably mean I also give up my others... But I am not 100% on that, but that is what I feel like.
View attachment 26307
Tl;dr - they calculate the expenses and how much you may get from the earnings. You can ask how they calculated it and what statistics they used for it, but they will say, as in the text you can read, by the same data you can access on the website. Yeah, sure, and I am going to believe that you paid me with Webnovel's gift data or something.
But, here comes the bestest, mostest, superest part:
View attachment 26310
They can "ask," more like TELL you to rewrite parts if they don't like it. They can censor you, essentially. You don't like it? Get fucked; here are damages; pay us back, and this all is ours now. YOINK.
Read 9.4 in its entirety, this shit is wild.
I get that they need to defend their assets, but come on, the reasons why are so vague it is laughable. I get it if the author is plagiarizing or something, but they don't specify what breaching an agreement really means. It includes the fact that if they tell you to modify parts of your story, you refuse to do so.
They can take your whole story away and make it their own. They already have your account that they can use; they specify that they can finish the story if they want it or give it to someone else to pick it up. Either way, you are fucked; this is our story now. YOINK. Oh, and yeah, here are the damages; pay us back 100%. What, you were paid for two years? Pay two years back bitch; it was not payment; it was a loan!
There are still more:
View attachment 26311
Even if they go bankrupt or just dissolve, the contract still holds. They can give it to someone else, and it will still be active. You don't get out, buddy; you signed it, and your soul is ours.
Welp, nah. I'm good. I remain a hobby writer instead. At least I am free.
How can they know it is a good contract if there are no numbers.This is so brutal, it is just a bit short of slavery. Yet I still hear people saying, "It's a good contract if follow it". Where are they right now?
Worse, they are Webnovel contractors.I've never heard of "A&D Entertainment" Are they WebNovel?