Sorkia

Sorkia Contribution and Copyright Assignment

Version: 2026-10-04-v1 Effective: 2026-10-04

This is an agreement between you and Need More Truth ("NMT"), who owns Sorkia. You accept it with its own checkbox when you apply for citizenship. It is separate from the Terms of Citizenship so that you can read it on its own.

1. What you give NMT

1.1 You transfer to NMT all copyright and related rights in your contributions, worldwide, for the full term of those rights.

1.2 This includes the right to make, use and transfer adaptations, translations and other derivative works of your contributions (in Korean law, 2차적저작물작성권).

1.3 The transfer takes effect for each contribution when you contribute (post) it. NMT may use your contributions in any way, including to reproduce, distribute, make available online, adapt, translate, print, publish, license, sublicense and transfer them, without paying you and without naming you.

1.4 You receive no payment. You make this transfer in return for your citizenship in Sorkia.

1.5 NMT gives you back a licence to use your own contributions for personal, non-commercial purposes, for example to repost them on your own blog. This licence is non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, royalty-free and perpetual. NMT keeps ownership.

1.6 You may not:

  • sell your contributions;
  • give or license them to another organisation;
  • demand the rights back;
  • demand that Sorkia remove or stop showing your contributions because you no longer want them shown;
  • start charging for them.

1.7 Where data-protection law gives you rights over personal data contained in a contribution, such as erasure, this agreement does not affect those rights. This also does not affect any right to remuneration, revocation or rescission that the law of your country gives you and that cannot be waived.

2. What counts as a contribution

2.1 A contribution is anything you post, upload or submit in Sorkia's shared spaces: rooms, channels, spaces, territories and bodies of Sorkia, and anything you submit to the state or to a Sorkia body. Examples are messages, files, images, research, proposed laws, translations, words for the Atren language and code.

2.2 These are not contributions under this agreement:

  • messages and files in direct chats and in your personal desk room;
  • your citizenship application, survey answers and message to the state, which the Privacy Policy covers.

3. If the law does not allow a transfer

If the law that applies to you does not allow copyright, or any part of it, to be transferred, you instead give NMT an exclusive, worldwide, free, perpetual and irrevocable licence to use your contributions in every way, including the right to adapt them and to grant this licence to others. The same applies to any other economic right in your contributions that cannot be transferred.

4. Moral rights

Some rights, such as the right to be named as author and to object to changes (moral rights, 저작인격권), stay with you by law. To the extent the law allows, you agree not to assert them against NMT or anyone NMT authorises.

5. Your promises

5.1 You promise that, for each contribution, you hold the rights you transfer or license under this agreement, or have permission to do so.

5.2 You may use AI tools. You are responsible for making sure that what you post with them does not copy another person's work without permission. Where no copyright exists in a contribution, nothing is transferred, and NMT may still use the contribution freely.

5.3 If you post someone else's work without the right to do so, that is your responsibility. You are responsible for the loss this causes NMT, to the extent the law allows.

6. Signature and record

6.1 By checking the box for this agreement you sign it electronically. You intend your check to be your signature.

6.2 The state keeps a record of the version you accepted, your account and the time. Each version stays published at its own address, and the approval message links the version you accepted.

7. Other terms

7.1 This agreement continues after your citizenship ends, for contributions made before it ended.

7.2 NMT may transfer the rights it receives under this agreement.

7.3 The law of the Republic of Korea governs this agreement, without taking away the protection of the mandatory law of the country or state where you live.

7.4 This agreement is written in English. The Korean text is a full translation. If they differ, the English text prevails.

7.5 Contact: contact@sorkia.org