Pulsely Stories - Author Guidelines

Article 5 – Intellectual Property & Authors' Rights

5.1 Authors' Rights

Authors retain full intellectual property rights over the original works they publish on the Platform, whether texts, audio content or podcasts.

5.2 Licence Granted to the Platform

By publishing content on Pulsely Stories, the author grants the Platform a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and revocable licence, for the duration the content remains online, for the following strictly defined purposes:

Hosting and displaying the content on the Platform;
Distributing the content to registered users;
Technical reproduction for backup and Platform operation purposes;
Promoting the content within the Platform (featured stories, internal sharing);
Automatic translation of content for international accessibility purposes.

This licence terminates automatically when the content is deleted by the author or when their account is closed, subject to technical deletion timeframes.

5.3 What the Platform May NOT Do

Pulsely Stories formally undertakes never to:

Sell or transfer authors' works to third parties;
Commercially exploit works outside the Platform without prior written consent from the author;
Pulsely stories will never use published works for training AI models;
Substantially modify a work without the author's consent.

5.4 Anti-Plagiarism & Anti-AI Protection

The Platform strictly prohibits:

Any form of plagiarism or unauthorised copying of works published on the Platform;
Automated extraction of content for AI training purposes (scraping, crawling, etc.);
AI-generated reproduction or imitation of a work without the author's consent;
Republication of translated content outside the Platform without authorisation.

Article 6 – Automatic Translation Disclaimer

Pulsely Stories integrates an automatic translation system designed to allow users worldwide to access works in their language. By publishing content on the Platform, the author acknowledges and expressly accepts that their work may be automatically translated by the systems integrated into the Platform.

It is specified that:

Automatic translations are provided for indicative and accessibility purposes only;
They may contain inaccuracies, contextual errors or approximations;
They do not replace the original version of the work, which remains the legally binding reference version;
In the event of dispute or contradictory interpretation, the original version prevails over any automatic translation;
The author retains full intellectual property rights over their original work and the translated versions generated by the Platform.

Article 7 – Audio Content & Podcasts

Pulsely Stories includes a podcast feature subject to prior validation by the Platform administrator before any public publication.

Obligations of users publishing audio content

Users wishing to publish audio content (podcast, narration, voice recording) warrant that they:

Own or control all necessary rights over the published audio content;
Are authorised to use the voices, sound effects, music or recordings included in their publications;
Do not infringe the intellectual property rights, image rights or personality rights of third parties.

The following are strictly prohibited:

Unauthorised vocal imitation of real persons;
AI-based voice cloning without express consent;
Unauthorised use of music or recordings protected by copyright;
Any harmful, illegal or abusive audio content.

Article 14 – Authors' Responsibilities

Authors publishing content on Pulsely Stories agree to:

Publish only original content or content for which they hold the necessary rights;
Comply with these Terms and the Community Rules;
Interact respectfully and constructively with other members;
Not impersonate another author or a real public figure;
Report any inappropriate content they encounter on the Platform.

Author Guidelines