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Found in the ToS of this site:

6. User Submissions and Conduct

A. As a FanFiction.Net account holder you may submit textual, audio, visual, or audiovisual content including but not limited to stories, poetry, polls, profile images, forum messages or instant messages. User submitted content are collectively referred to as "User Submissions." You understand that whether or not such User Submissions are published, FanFiction.Net does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any User Submissions.

B. You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with User Submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize FanFiction.Net to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Submissions and have all necessary consents to collect, use and disclose any personally identifiable information contained or displayed in any and all User Submissions to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service.

C. For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting User Submissions to FanFiction.Net, you hereby grant FanFiction.Net a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the FanFiction.Net Website. You also hereby waive any moral rights you may have in your User Submissions and grant each user of the FanFiction.Net Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Website. You understand and agree, however, that FanFiction.Net may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of User Submissions that have been removed or deleted.

D. In connection with User Submissions, you further agree that you will not submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner and the necessary consents from any individuals whose personally identifiable information is contained in such material to post the material and to grant FanFiction.Net all of the license rights granted herein.

E. You further agree that you will not, in connection with User Submissions, submit material that is contrary to the FanFiction.Net Community Guidelines, found at http://www.FanFiction.Net/guidelines/, which may be updated from time to time, or contrary to applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations.

F. FanFiction.Net does not endorse any User Submission or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and FanFiction.Net expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with User Submissions. FanFiction.Net does not permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of intellectual property rights on its Website, and FanFiction.Net will remove all Content and User Submissions if properly notified that such Content or User Submission infringes on another's intellectual property rights or contravenes any applicable privacy legislation. FanFiction.Net reserves the right to remove Content and User Submissions without prior notice.

FanFiction.Net Community Guidelines:

Entries not allowed:

Non-stories: lists, bloopers, polls, previews, challenges, author notes, and etc.One or two liners.MST: comments inserted in between the flow of a copied story.Stories with non-historical and non-fictional characters: actors, musicians, and etc.Any form of interactive entry: choose your adventure, second person/you based, Q&As, and etc.Chat/script format and keyboard dialogue based entries.

Actions not allowed:

Multiple entries of the same material. There can only be one copy of any unique story on the entire site. No exceptions.Rewriting names of characters/locations of one story in order to upload to multiple categories.Copying from a previously published work (including musical lyrics) not in the public domain.

General rules:

Entry title and summary must be rated K for all audience. No exceptions.Entry must be given the proper rating. No exceptions.Entry must be placed in proper category. No exceptions.Chapters of the same story are not allowed to be submitted as separate entries. All chapters/segments must be grouped together using the 'edit/upload chapter' feature in the left menu.