Version 5 · 15 October 2026
What changed since version 4: section 3 no longer asks you to promise your work “doesn’t depict anything illegal”. It was the wrong test and it was never what we meant. Fiction portrays unlawful things all the time, and consent play is the obvious example. What matters is what was real in the making and what is presented as real, so that is what the promise now says, with the prohibited depictions named instead of left to a word. The tickbox on the upload form says the same. Nothing you are allowed to upload has changed.
This is the agreement between you and the person who runs Ferality. You accept it once when you create your account, and again if it materially changes. It is written to be read, not to be survived. If a line doesn’t make sense, ask before you accept it.
Ferality is an early, invite-only project. You are here because you were invited personally. Right now it costs nothing, it pays nothing, and nothing you upload becomes public unless it passes review and is explicitly published.
The three things that actually matter:
Everything below is the long version of those three things, plus the honest position on money.
You must be 18 or older, and you must be old enough under the law where you live to agree to a contract and to work with adult material. If either is untrue, stop here.
Every person whose voice, performance, or likeness appears in anything you upload must also have been 18 or older at the time of recording, and must have agreed to that recording being used this way. You are the one who knows this. The platform cannot verify it for you, which is why it is a promise you make rather than a box we tick.
If you cannot honestly make that promise about a piece of audio, do not upload it. There is no version of this where it turns out fine.
You keep the copyright and every other right in everything you upload. Nothing here transfers ownership.
What you grant instead is a licence: permission for Ferality to do the specific things it has to do in order to be a platform at all:
This licence is non-exclusive, so you can post the same work anywhere else, sell it anywhere else, and do anything you like with it elsewhere. Ferality is never your only outlet and will never ask to be.
The licence lasts as long as the work is on the platform. Unpublish it and the public licence ends. Delete your account and it ends entirely, subject to the record-keeping in section 7.
Each time you upload, you confirm:
If a piece breaks one of these, it gets removed. If it turns out you knew, that’s the end of the account.
Filling a script somebody else wrote is normal, it’s most of what this scene is, and it’s welcome here. It just comes with two obligations, and the upload form asks about both.
Credit the writer the way they asked to be credited. If their post says to use a particular name, use that name. If they asked for a link back, give the link. Ferality shows the credit on the work’s public page, so you don’t have to remember to put it in a description.
Stay inside the writer’s terms, especially about money. A lot of writers are happy to be filled but say plainly that their script isn’t to be sold or put behind a paywall. That matters here even though nothing on Ferality costs anything yet, because it won’t always be that way. So the upload asks you one question, does the writer allow this to be sold?, and you can answer yes, no, or I’m not sure.
Answer it honestly, including “I’m not sure”. Nothing bad happens to a work marked unknown: it stays up, it stays free, it just isn’t in the pile that could ever be sold when selling exists. A guess recorded as a yes is the thing that causes harm later, to the writer and to you.
If a writer asks for a fill of their script to come down, it comes down. No argument, no waiting to hear your side. If you think they’re wrong, tell me afterwards and we’ll sort it out, but the piece comes down first, because that’s the only version of this where writers keep sharing scripts with voices at all.
If you wrote the script yourself, none of this applies. Just say so on the upload.
A little music or sound dressing is normal in this kind of work, and it’s fine here, as long as you’re allowed to use it. “Fair use” won’t cover you: it’s an American idea, Ireland and the EU don’t have it, and there’s no rule that a few seconds of something is automatically fine.
So every piece of music, sample or sound effect in your work has to be one of these:
Keep whatever shows that, the licence, the receipt, the message saying yes, because the operator may ask to see it, before publishing or after.
Never, whatever permission you think you have:
If you’re not sure whether something you want to use clears this, ask before you upload it.
Every audio work you upload goes through the same pipeline: an automated policy screen, an automated transcription checked against the script you submitted, and then a human listening to it before anything can go live. That human is currently the platform operator.
Two consequences worth being clear about:
Review decisions, and the reasons for them, are recorded and kept. If something of yours is rejected you’ll be told why.
This section is the one that binds both of us, and it runs in both directions.
What you agree to keep confidential:
You can talk about the fact that you’re part of an early creator group and that you’re making work for it. You can talk about your own work freely. It’s yours. What you can’t do is describe the internals, screenshot the tooling publicly, or pass access to someone else.
What the operator agrees to keep confidential, in return:
This does not cover anything already public, anything you knew before, anything you work out independently, or anything a court or regulator requires be disclosed. It lasts three years from the day your account closes.
There’s no penalty clause here and no lawyer on retainer to enforce it. It’s written down because writing it down is how two people who like each other stay clear about what was meant.
Read this bit properly, because it’s the part most likely to surprise you later.
Right now: the platform takes no payments, holds no payment details, and pays out nothing. There is no card on file for you and no way to add one. The tools are free because charging for them isn’t built.
Where this is meant to go is a hope, not a plan with a date on it. Running this costs money (servers, storage, the AI tooling, the domains) and right now that comes out of one person’s pocket. The dream is that everyone who makes something here gets some kind of compensation for work they currently do for love: the voice, the writer, the person who built the haptics. That is genuinely the point of building it.
But nobody knows whether it arrives. It depends on payment processors who may say no, on an audience that may never turn up, and on money that does not exist yet. The working idea is that listeners would pay for access to work and that revenue would be split, and the figure being worked to is 80% to the creator, 20% to the platform. But that is a hope being aimed at, not a rate you are owed. Treat every sentence about future earnings as something wished for, not something promised.
If it never happens, this stays exactly what it is today: a free place to put your work, for as long as it can be kept running.
If it does happen, here is what is promised about how it happens:
Nothing you upload during this phase earns you money, and nothing you do here obliges you to pay anything. It’s a friendship-phase arrangement, said out loud.
You can leave at any time. Ask, and your account is closed, your works unpublished, and your files deleted.
Two things survive that, and you should know why:
The operator can suspend or remove an account where something breaks section 3, where a report needs acting on, or where continuing would put the platform at legal risk. You get told what happened and why, unless the law prevents it.
If the platform shuts down, you get reasonable notice and a chance to take your files.
No guarantees. This is early software running on a small budget. It will break. Data loss is unlikely but possible, so keep your own masters, always. Nothing here promises uptime, and nobody is liable to anyone for lost earnings or lost files.
Not employment. You’re not employed by, partnered with, or an agent of the platform. You’re a creator using it.
You’re responsible for your own tax on anything you eventually earn, wherever you live.
Governing law is Ireland, where the operator is based. If a court finds one clause unenforceable, the rest still stands.
Changes. Small corrections (typos, clearer wording) happen without ceremony. Changes that alter what you’re agreeing to bump the version, and you’ll be asked to accept the new version before you upload again. Your old acceptances stay on record so it’s always clear what you agreed to and when.
This agreement has not been reviewed by a solicitor. It was written in plain language by the person running the platform so that a small group of invited creators could start working without waiting for money that doesn’t exist yet.
That is a deliberate, disclosed choice, and it is why this phase has no payments in it. Before any money moves, in either direction, this gets replaced by something a qualified adult-industry solicitor has actually read.
If you’d rather wait for that version, that’s a completely reasonable thing to want. Say so and nothing is lost.
Questions about any of this go to the operator directly, before you accept. That is what the invite is for.
2026-10-15.v5 · this is the text you accept when you create a Ferality account. What is stored about you →