Protecting your work

You own everything you write on Inkbreaker, and you decide who can find it and who can read it. The controls below are free for every writer.

Where each control lives

Every per-piece control gathers in one place called Sharing & privacy: search visibility, reader comments, reader protection, your rights line, and private share links. You can open it from wherever you happen to be:

• From your notebook. Open a piece’s actions menu (the Actions button on its card) and choose Sharing & privacy.
• In the editor. Open the Share menu next to publishing and choose Sharing & privacy.
• While reading your own piece. Open the author menu in the top corner. Alongside Sharing & privacy you get one-tap Copy private link and Download authorship evidence, and a badge showing whether the piece is listed in search.

Profile-wide privacy lives in Preferences › Writer Profile › Spotlight, under “Privacy and discoverability.” The Sharing & privacy panel links straight to it.

A series has the same actions menu in Manage › Notebook › Series, where you can set it public or private and export it.

You never set any of this on the public page itself. The public pages only reflect your choices.

Three levels of visibility for a piece

Every piece is one of three things:

• Public. On the community feed and, while “List in the Library” is on, in the browsable Library and in search engines.
• Unlisted. Published and readable by direct link, but kept out of the Library and out of search engines. Turn off Show in search & Library in Sharing & privacy. Hand the link to anyone you like. Search engines will not index it.
• Private draft. Visible only to you, plus anyone you explicitly invite (a Chapter, a beta reader, or a private share link).

Keep your profile out of search, or make it private

In Preferences › Writer Profile › Spotlight:

• Let search engines find me. On by default. Turn it off to keep your profile and your pieces out of Google and other search engines. Your direct links still work.
• Public profile. On by default. Turn it off and visitors see only that the profile is private. Pieces you share by direct link still open, so you stay in control of what you hand out.

Private share links for drafts

You do not have to publish to share. Open Sharing & privacy and create a private share link. Anyone with that link can read the draft, no account required. Create more than one if you want to tell readers apart, and revoke any link the moment you want to cut off access. When you are reading your own piece, Copy private link in the author menu makes one and copies it in a single tap.

This is the way to send a work in progress to a beta reader, an editor, or an agent without putting it on the feed.

Reader protection

In Sharing & privacy, turn on Reader protection for a published piece. It does two things:

• Discourages casual copying by turning off text selection and the right-click menu on the reading page.
• Adds a short credit line to anything a reader does copy, so an excerpt carries your name and a link back to the source.

Your own editor is never affected.

What protection can and cannot do

Nothing on the open web can stop a screenshot or someone determined to copy, because the words have to load in the reader’s browser to be read. Reader protection raises the friction for casual copying and makes a copied excerpt traceable back to you. It is a deterrent and a credit, not a lock.

Your rights line

Also in Sharing & privacy, set the rights line shown beneath your piece. Leave it blank for the default, “All rights reserved,” or write your own (for example, ”© Your Name. Do not repost.”). Readers always see who owns the work.

If your work is stolen

If your writing shows up somewhere it should not, use Report on the offending piece and choose the Copyright or stolen work reason, or file a report from Support. Our team reviews copyright reports and acts on them.