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No. Neither original works nor reader-created branches are used to train AI. The AI providers we use also commit in their API terms not to use this data for training.

• Free credits are given out by the platform when users sign up or take part in promotions. Paid credits are purchased through a top-up.
• Free and paid credits have the same purchasing power when using AI to create story branches.
• Stories created with free credits must be public. Stories created with paid credits are private by default, but you can choose to publish them publicly.

• When a user spends paid credits to create a story branch, the original author receives 30% of the amount spent as royalties.
• When a user spends free credits to create a story branch, the original author receives 30% of the credits spent in free credits.
• For nested story branches, suppose author A writes a novel and reader B creates a branch. When reader C spends credits to create a further branch from B’s branch, B receives 10% of the credits spent as a reward. This reward is provided by the platform and does not reduce the original author’s share.

These platform revenue shares and rewards do not change branch ownership. A reward for an intermediate branch creator does not give them economic copyright in later branches. Assignment itself carries no separate assignment fee; see Section 7 of the Terms for exceptions.

Users can view their current accumulated earnings on the earnings page.

Earnings are settled at the end of each month and transferred in Japanese yen to the author’s Japanese bank account by the 5th of the following month. Payment is made when accumulated earnings reach ¥3,000; smaller balances carry over to the next month. The platform covers bank transfer fees. Your legal name and bank details are used only for payments and tax purposes and are not made public. If artificial activity or other abuse is detected, the platform reserves the right to suspend payments and recover revenue shares.

• Authors retain copyright in their originals. By submitting a work and enabling branches, an authorized author grants readers a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to create, save, read, publish and update branches through PubWiki, and accepts branch rights assigned under the Terms. The platform license is in Section 4; we still obtain consent before quoting a work in promotional material.
• Private creation, editing or saving does not trigger assignment. Readers retain only rights they actually hold in their new creative expression, not rights in the original, existing branches or third-party material. AI generation does not guarantee copyright protection. However, after validly accepting the Terms, readers must follow Section 7.1 even for branches that remain private: to the extent permitted by law, they may not assert economic copyright, moral or related rights in the branch to restrict the Original Rightsholder’s later creation or use of their later works.
• When you first make a branch available to the public yourself or expressly direct someone to do so, your lawfully assignable economic copyright in the new expression actually disclosed passes directly to the initial original’s rightsholder. This includes off-platform disclosure even if PubWiki labels the branch private. Further branch levels follow the same rule, not assignment to intermediate creators or PubWiki.
• Assignment covers all transferable economic rights worldwide for their remaining statutory term, including translation, adaptation and commercial exploitation, without a separate assignment fee or additional compensation or revenue share unless mandatory law or a separate agreement provides otherwise. To the extent permitted by law, branch creators agree not to exercise moral or other personal rights in relation to uses specified in the Terms; non-waivable rights and rights that cannot be subject to such an undertaking remain reserved.
• Undisclosed chapters and drafts are not assigned merely because another part is public. New expression in later updates follows the same rule on its first disclosure. A third party’s leak or repost without your consent does not trigger assignment. Deletion, making a branch private again or closing an account does not itself undo an effective assignment.
• The license still allows reading, updating and publishing branches within PubWiki, retaining on-platform attribution, provenance and license information. It does not automatically authorize off-platform use.

See Sections 6 and 7 of the Terms for scope, exceptions and affirmative acceptance requirements. Updating this FAQ or the Terms webpage does not itself assign existing content retroactively.

• Novel authors can remove any public branch under their work. They can also block users to prevent them from posting comments or creating story branches under their works.
• All branches must follow the platform’s content rules. The platform is responsible for moderation; authors are not responsible for content written by readers.
• When an author deletes a work, links into its branches are removed from that work, but public branches remain accessible through direct links. Authors may ask the platform to delete those branches.

Under Terms you have validly accepted, the Original Rightsholder may use assigned new expression from public branches within the assigned scope. Section 7.1 separately covers branches that remain private and have never been disclosed: to the extent permitted by law, creators may not assert economic copyright, moral or related rights in the branch or its new expression to restrict the Original Rightsholder’s subsequent creation or use of their later works. This includes demands to stop creation or use, take down or delete works, pay damages or additional remuneration, or share revenue. The undertaking also covers lawful successors and licensees using those later works and applies at every branch level.

Private branch copyright is not assigned by this undertaking, but retaining it is subject to this non-assertion commitment. The commitment does not depend on disclosure and grants no access to or permission for unauthorized publication of the private branch itself. Rights and remedies that law does not permit to be waived or made subject to such an undertaking remain reserved. Authors need not read every reader branch. See Sections 7.1, 7.3 and 7.6 of the Terms.

Yes, for an original work you have the right to publish. PubWiki does not require exclusivity for originals, but existing valid licenses and other agreements still apply.

A branch based on someone else’s original or an existing branch is different: off-platform public distribution requires separate authorization from the relevant rightsholder or a basis in applicable law. Even if PubWiki labels it private, your first off-platform public disclosure, personally or at your express direction, triggers assignment of the economic rights in the new expression actually disclosed under the Terms. Assignment does not authorize or ratify unauthorized off-platform publication. See Sections 6 and 7 of the Terms.