Contributor Agreement

Version 1.0 · effective on the date you sign · PlainSight — Insightful Actions

PlainSight Comedy sells written comedy material. This is the agreement between us and the comedian who wrote it. It is meant to be read, not survived: plain sentences, no traps, and every number in it matches what the software actually does.

1. Who this is between

This agreement is between PlainSight — Insightful Actions ("PlainSight", "we") and the writer who submits material and signs below ("you"). It covers only the specific bits you submit and we accept. It does not make you an employee, a partner, or an agent of ours, and it does not give us any claim on anything else you write.

2. What you keep

• You own your material. Copyright stays yours. We are a licensee and a seller, never an owner.
• You keep performing it — on stage, on tape, in a special — for as long as you like. The one exception is a bit you personally elect to sell exclusive under §4(b), and that election is yours alone to make.
• You can take a bit off the shelf. Ask, and we stop selling it within five business days. Licenses already sold survive — a person who paid to perform it keeps that right — but nothing new is sold from that moment.

3. What you grant us

For each bit we accept, you grant PlainSight a non-exclusive, worldwide right to reproduce, display, and license that bit to buyers on the terms in §4, and to show excerpts of it in ordinary promotion of the catalog. You keep every other right, including the right to sell or license the same material elsewhere — subject only to an exclusive election under §4(b).

4. How a bit is sold

(a) Shared licenses — the default. Unless you say otherwise, every bit sells as a shared license: each buyer may perform the bit, and so may you, forever. The number of licenses is capped by what the bit is for, and the counter on the page is live and enforced in code:

What the bit is for	Licenses sold, then it closes
Speeches, toasts, roasts — material a buyer uses once	25
Stage material — written for a comedian's own mic	5
Exclusive, only under §4(b)	1
Either — both ways, under §4(b)(ii)	5, or 1 if the exclusive sells first

When the cap is reached the bit closes permanently. A closed bit stays closed; we do not reopen, re-cap, or re-issue it.

(b) Exclusive — your election, per bit, in writing. You may choose to sell a specific bit exclusively. If you do, and only if you do:

• the bit sells once, to one buyer, who owns it outright;
• it retires from the catalog permanently on that sale;
• you stop performing it from the date of that sale — that is what the buyer is paying for;
• your share is unchanged at 60% of net.

We cannot list a bit of yours exclusively without that election recorded for that bit. Silence, a general willingness, or an exclusive election on a different bit is never enough. If you never elect, no bit of yours is ever sold exclusive.

(b)(ii) Either — both ways, whichever sells first. You may instead elect that a bit be offered both ways at once. This is how PlainSight sells its own material, and it is available to you on the same terms:

• both a shared licence and the exclusive are on sale from the day it lists;
• the first sale decides. If a shared licence sells first, the exclusive comes off the table permanently — nobody can buy the bit outright after that, and you keep performing it under §4(a);
• if the exclusive sells first, §4(b) applies in full: one buyer, retired, and you stop performing it from that date;
• your share is 60% of net either way.

This election requires the same per-bit written record as §4(b), and for the same reason: it can end your use of the bit. Choosing it is choosing to accept whichever outcome arrives first. You will not be asked again once a sale has decided, and we will tell you which way it went.

(c) Price. We set the listed price. You may suggest one when you submit, and we will tell you the number before the bit goes live. Exclusive listings of contributor material carry a floor price precisely because they end your use of the bit.

5. Money

• You receive 60% of net on every sale. "Net" means the buyer's payment minus payment-processing fees and refunds — nothing else. No marketing costs, no platform overhead, no deductions we invent later.
• Stripe pays you directly. You connect your own Stripe account; Stripe collects your bank and tax details, and we never see or hold them. Payouts are automatic on each sale once your account is live. Sales that happen before it is live are held for you and paid when it is.
• Statements. You can see units, gross, deductions and your share, line by line, any time. Balances under $25 roll forward to the next payout rather than being lost or expired.
• Refunds and chargebacks are netted against your share for the sale they relate to, and never against unrelated sales.

6. Editing, and the AI punch-up

Your words are your words. When you submit, you choose one of two things, and we honour it:

• As written — we list it in your words or we decline it. No AI touches it, and neither do we.
• AI punch-up — you ask us to run the bit through PlainSight's own AI punch-up desk. You read the punched-up version and approve it before anything is listed. If you don't approve it, we list the original or nothing.

Either way your share is 60%: an edit is a service we provide, not a claim of co-authorship, and it gives PlainSight no ownership of your bit. Listings that were AI-punched-up are recorded as such.

7. What you promise us

• The material is yours and original, and you have the right to license it.
• It is not already sold, promised, or exclusively licensed to anyone else.
• It does not knowingly defame a real person or infringe someone else's work.

If a claim arises from a breach of those promises, you are responsible for it. That is the ordinary risk of selling your own writing, and it is the only liability this agreement puts on you.

8. What we promise you

• We will not sell your material in any way this agreement doesn't describe.
• We will not present your bit as house material or as anyone else's work.
• We will not use your submission to train a model or generate other material for sale. Your bit is sold, not mined.
• We will pay you what §5 says, when it says, without you having to ask.

9. Ending it

Either of us may end this agreement at any time, in writing. On termination we stop selling your bits within five business days. Licenses already sold survive, because a buyer paid for them; your right to be paid on those sales survives too, and so does §8. Nothing else continues.

10. The rest

This is the entire agreement about the material you submit, and it replaces any earlier conversation about it. Changes have to be in writing and agreed by both of us — including any change to §4(b). If one clause turns out to be unenforceable, the others stand. This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States.

Signed by the writer named on the submission, on the date recorded with it.