Has any Authors here ever completed a Contract for Webnovel?

If so what happens afterwards legally speaking?

Is there anything you are not allowed to do after submitting your obligations?

    What do you mean by "complete a contract"? You mean, after authors mark the contracted stories as complete?

    Nothing, you're done, you can't update except with side chapters (a new function) and that's about it. I think you still receive income for it if people continue to unlock your chapters with coins. I don't think there's technically anything you're not allowed to do.

      Tomoyuki

      So I can make a Spin-Off Book and a Sequel Book afterwards without being bound to Webnovel's Contracts yeah?

          Hackata_48 The spin-off chapters or side chapters can be addded to the contracted book itself. But I guess you can make a sequel that's separate if you want, though I'm not sure why you wouldn't just continue the story itself, given the webnovel format is technically meant to last for thousands of chapters.

              Hackata_48
              If you're non-exclusive then its fine, you can do whatever you want with it because that IP is yours. But if you're exclusive then wn will want that 50% cut. Its written in the contract

                  Tomoyuki You technically do, but with the 50% cut for WN. As an author, you are the copyright holder, and WN is taking care of all legal measures in your stead, thus essentially making them copyright holders. And I think the contract has a bit about sequels, where you'd need to publish them on WN, instead of a third party site/company, unless it's an affiliate company of WN. For example, if you wanna go over to say RoyalRoad after finishing one book here, and you wanna start a sequel there, you're technically not allowed to do that. You'd have to go to a company that's a property of Cloudary Holdings Lmtd., or Tencent Pictures. So you could technically get a movie sequel done at Tencent, and that'd be allowed, but not with say Netflix (unless they offer it, e.g.: If you win Spirity)

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