Usage of content
Please don’t steal our stories.
Read all you like — that’s what this is for. Just don’t take the words and put them somewhere else, sell them, or feed them to a model. Link to us instead. It’s the difference between a fan and a thief, and we can tell which is which.
Free to read — personal use
Reading on Scroll is completely free, with no account and no subscription. That access is a limited, revocable permission granted for your personal, non-commercial enjoyment only — it is not a sale, and it transfers no ownership or licence in the work. Reading is free; copying is not.
Ownership
Every story, chapter, episode, title, plot, character, character name, cover, illustration, translation, and the arrangement of the catalogue is the original intellectual property of Sky Scrawl Publishing and/or its authors, protected under the Copyright Act, 1957 (India), the Berne Convention, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (United States) where applicable, and other applicable laws and treaties. All rights reserved.
You may not
Whether for commercial or non-commercial purposes, in whole or in part, you may not — and may not authorise, enable, or assist anyone else to:
- Use bots, crawlers, spiders, scrapers, or headless browsers to access, download, index, or bulk-collect our chapters or catalogue
- Copy, reproduce, re-post, re-host, mirror, syndicate, or redistribute our stories on any other site, app, feed, or channel
- Frame, inline, embed, or hotlink our content so it appears as, or within, another service
- Sell, rent, sublicense, translate, adapt, abridge, narrate, or make derivative works from our content
- Remove, obscure, or alter any author credit, copyright notice, metadata, or watermark
- Circumvent access controls, rate limits, bot detection, or other protections
- Use our content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, benchmark, ground, or otherwise build any machine-learning, large-language, or generative-AI system, dataset, or embedding
AI & text-and-data-mining
We expressly reserve all text-and-data-mining rights in our content and opt out of, and deny, any text-and-data-mining exception that might otherwise apply. No part of Scroll may be mined, scraped, or ingested for AI or dataset purposes. Any such use requires a separate written licence from us — treat this page as a machine-readable and human-readable statement of that reservation.
Sharing the right way
Please do share links to Scroll and our built-in quote cards — that’s encouraged. What isn’t allowed is copying the text itself. When in doubt, link, don’t lift.
Enforcement
Unauthorised use is copyright infringement. We monitor for it and will pursue all available legal and equitable remedies — takedown and de-indexing notices to hosts and search engines, revocation of access and IP-level blocking, injunctive relief, and statutory and actual damages, account of profits, and legal costs — to the fullest extent permitted by law, under the governing law and jurisdiction set out in our Legal Notice. To request a licence or permission, use the Sky Scrawl contact page.