Last updated: September 19, 2026
If you upload a comic, cover, or any other content to Komikus, you keep full ownership and copyright of it. Publishing on Komikus does not transfer ownership to us, and we don't claim any rights to your work beyond what's described below.
To actually show your comic to readers, we need permission to host and display it. By uploading content to Komikus, you grant us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, reproduce, display, and distribute that content solely for operating, maintaining, and promoting the Komikus platform — for example: showing your pages to readers, generating thumbnails and preview images, and using your cover or a page as the preview image when a link to your comic is shared on social media.
This license does not let us sell your content, license it to a third party for their own use, or use it anywhere outside of operating and promoting Komikus itself.
This license ends when you delete the content or delete your account. Once deleted, we stop distributing it going forward — though a copy that was already shared, cached, or downloaded elsewhere (for example, a link preview cached by a third-party site before deletion) may take time to disappear from places outside our control, or may not disappear at all if someone saved a copy in violation of Section 4 below.
By uploading content, you confirm that you own it or otherwise have the right to publish it, and that it doesn't infringe anyone else's copyright, trademark, or other rights. You're solely responsible for your own content — see our Disclaimer for how we handle infringement reports.
From the Edit panel on your comic's page, you can optionally choose a specific content license for that series instead of leaving it at the default. The options are "All Rights Reserved" (the default — Section 5 below is what governs) or one of the standard Creative Commons licenses (Attribution, ShareAlike, NoDerivs, and/or NonCommercial variants) or CC0 (public domain dedication).
If you choose a Creative Commons license or CC0 for a series, that license — not Section 5 — governs what readers and visitors may do with that specific series, on top of whatever rights that license grants; Komikus shows the chosen license, and a link to its full legal terms, on the comic's page. Choosing a more permissive license for a series is your decision alone, applies only to that series, and doesn't change the more limited license you've granted to Komikus itself under Section 2.
Comics on Komikus are published for reading on the platform. For a series still set to the default "All Rights Reserved" (see Section 4), viewing it on Komikus does not give you any further license to its content, and without the creator's explicit permission you may not:
If a series carries a Creative Commons license or CC0 instead (Section 4), that license's own terms take over for that series — check the license shown on the comic's page before relying on the list above. Some of the restrictions above are also backed by technical measures — see Section 7 — but the rule itself applies whether or not a technical measure happens to be in place for a given page.
If you believe someone has copied, redistributed, or otherwise used content from Komikus in a way that violates the applicable license or infringes a creator's rights, please use the Report button on the relevant comic's page, or email us at support@komikus.fun. See our Disclaimer for what to include in a copyright report.
To help enforce Section 5, Komikus applies some technical friction to comic pages and covers: the reader and comic pages discourage right-click/drag-and-drop saving, uploaded images are protected against being embedded or hotlinked from other websites, and comic reader pages are excluded from search engine indexing and image search. These measures apply the same way regardless of a series' chosen license — they're about where and how the pixels can be grabbed, not about what a valid license then permits you to do with them. None of these measures are a perfect technical guarantee against copying — they exist to raise the bar against casual scraping and reposting, not to claim the content is technically un-copyable. The legal terms in Sections 4–5 are what actually govern what's allowed, independent of whether a given technical measure can be bypassed.
The Komikus name, logo, and site design are owned by Komikus and are not covered by the license you grant us in Section 2, or by any Creative Commons license a creator chooses under Section 4 — those are both about creator content, not ours.
Questions about this Content License can be sent to support@komikus.fun.