Manuscript Ownership Policy

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Authors trust Gold Prints with unpublished work. This policy explains, in plain English, who owns what.

1. Your work is yours

You own your content. This includes your manuscripts, chapters, outlines, Story and Series Bibles, notes, research, uploaded files and anything else you create or upload ("your content"). Gold Prints Publishing does not claim ownership of it.

2. What you allow us to do

So that the Service can work, you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission (licence) to host, store, copy, process, back up, display and transmit your content, only for the purpose of providing the Service to you and to the people you choose to share it with. This includes:

• saving your chapters and version history, and keeping daily backups;
• showing your content to members of your workspace according to the access you or the workspace owner give them;
• sending the relevant text to our AI provider when you use an AI feature;
• creating exports and downloads when you ask for them.

This permission ends when your content is deleted, except for copies kept for the limited periods described in our Data Retention Policy (for example in backups being rotated out).

We will not: sell your content, publish it, share it with anyone you have not shared it with, use it for marketing, or use it to train AI models.

3. AI-assisted and AI-generated text

When you use an AI feature, the text the AI produces for you ("AI output") is provided to you, and as between you and Gold Prints, you own the AI output and may use it as you wish, subject to the law and our AI provider's usage policies.

However, please understand:

• Copyright in AI-generated material is uncertain. In the UK, copyright law includes special rules for "computer-generated works", and in other countries (for example the United States) material produced without enough human creative input may not be protected by copyright at all. We do not guarantee that AI output is protected by copyright, is original, or is free from third-party rights.
• Your own creative choices, selection, arrangement and editing of AI output generally strengthen your position. Many authors use AI suggestions as a starting point and revise them substantially.
• Some publishing platforms ask you to disclose AI-generated or AI-assisted content. Check the current rules of each platform you publish on. Gold Prints marks AI proposals clearly and keeps a record in Version History when you accept one.
• AI output can resemble existing material by coincidence. Review it, especially before publication.

4. Team workspaces

When several people work on a book in a team workspace:

• the workspace owner controls the book within Gold Prints (who can see and edit it, and whether it is kept or deleted);
• ownership of the copyright in the book is a matter between the team members and any contracts between them (for example an author's agreement with a publisher). Gold Prints does not decide it;
• if a member leaves or deletes their account, their contributions stay in the team's books so that the team's work is not damaged.

If you are a publisher or team owner, make sure your agreements with authors, editors and other contributors cover ownership and rights.

5. Gold Prints' own materials

The Service itself (its software, design, templates, instructions, text and branding) belongs to Gold Prints Publishing or its licensors. You may use the templates and features to create your own work, and you own what you create with them. You may not copy, resell or redistribute the Service itself.

6. Taking your work with you

You can download your work at any time: export a manuscript (DOCX, PDF or EPUB), download a book backup, or use Settings → "Download my data" to receive your account details and a backup of every book you own or created.

7. Questions

Contact goldprintspublishing@gmail.com.