Author Agreement

1.1 Cavua operates an invitation-only author model. Access to author publishing capabilities is granted exclusively to individuals, organisations, and educational institutions who have been personally selected and invited by Cavua following an assessment of their credentials, reputation, and the authenticity of their published works. There is no open public registration for authors.

1.2 Onboarding is completed through a managed process coordinated directly by the Cavua team, during which your identity, credentials, and content rights will be verified prior to your account being activated for publishing.

1.3 You represent and warrant that all information provided during and following onboarding is accurate, complete, and not misleading.

2.1 By submitting any book, manuscript, or educational material (Source Material) to the Platform, you represent and warrant that: you are the sole and original author of the Source Material, or are fully authorised by the rights holder(s) to licence it to Cavua under this Agreement; the Source Material does not infringe any third-party copyright, trademark, privacy right, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; the Source Material does not contain defamatory, obscene, unlawful, or otherwise prohibited content; and you have full legal capacity to enter into this Agreement.

2.2 You grant Cavua a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, process, reproduce, adapt, and distribute your Source Material for the purpose of creating and delivering AI-generated course content on the Platform.

2.3 You retain ownership of your Source Material. This licence does not constitute a transfer of copyright or any other intellectual property rights.

3.1 Upon submission of your Source Material, Cavua will process it through a proprietary AI-powered pipeline that extracts structure (chapters, lessons, topics) and generates corresponding course content.

3.2 You will be required to review and confirm the AI-generated course outline before content generation proceeds. You will have full ability to edit, reorder, and approve all course content, assessments, and supporting materials before the course is made available to students.

3.3 You may set each course as free or paid and configure the course price in your author dashboard.

4.1 Author Sale Revenue. For each paid course purchase, Cavua will remit to you the net revenue after deduction of the platform commission. The current platform commission is 30% of the gross purchase amount, and the remaining 70% constitutes your Author Sale Earning.

4.2 Referral Earnings. Where you have referred users who make qualifying purchases, you may additionally earn referral commissions in accordance with the current rates displayed in your dashboard.

4.3 Payout via Tipalti. All payouts are processed through Tipalti. You are required to complete payee onboarding and all applicable tax and banking verification through the Tipalti portal before any payout can be issued. Payout disbursements occur on a weekly automated schedule triggered through AWS EventBridge.

4.4 Refund Reversals. If a student receives a refund for a course purchase, the corresponding Author Sale Earning will be reversed.

5.1 You agree that all Source Material and published courses comply with Cavua's content standards, which prohibit content that is adult, violent, defamatory, discriminatory, unlawful, or otherwise harmful.

5.2 Cavua reserves the right to review any published course and to flag, temporarily remove, or permanently remove any course that violates these standards or applicable law. You may submit a formal appeal through your dashboard.

5.3 In the event of account suspension or termination due to a breach of this Agreement, pending unpaid earnings attributable to eligible transactions will be honoured subject to applicable thresholds.

6.1 This Agreement commences on the date of your onboarding acceptance and continues until terminated. Either party may terminate by providing thirty (30) days' written notice. Cavua may terminate immediately and without notice in the event of a material breach, fraudulent conduct, or serious violation of platform standards.

6.2 Upon termination, Cavua will endeavour to complete any pending payout of confirmed earnings within sixty (60) days, subject to applicable deductions.

6.3 This Agreement is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which Cavua is incorporated. Disputes shall be resolved first through good-faith negotiation, and if unresolved, through the competent courts of that jurisdiction.