Questions
The ones people actually ask
Including the ones with answers that do not flatter us. If yours is not here, hello@scriptlock.app.
The script
Who owns what I write?
You do. Every right stays yours — copyright, moral rights, adaptation. We take no licence to exploit it, and no model is trained, fine-tuned or evaluated on anything you write. In full: Your script, your copyright.
Does the AI write scenes or dialogue?
No, and there is no button for it. The moment a tool has one, “did a machine write this” becomes a question on every page of your script, and that question costs a writer work. Every AI action in the product, and the exact text each one sends: What the AI does.
Is the authorship certificate a copyright registration?
No. It records a SHA-256 hash of the text, the time and who issued it — which proves that this exact text was here, then, unchanged since, and is the sort of thing that settles an argument between collaborators. It is not a registration with any copyright office and not a WGA registration. Do one of those as well, not instead.
Can I get my work out?
Always. PDF in Letter and A4, Fountain, Final Draft, CSV for schedules and budgets, and the call sheets as they went out. Every export keeps working on a cancelled or read-only plan — we will not hold your work against an invoice.
Sharing it
What stops a script leaking?
One link per named person, watermarked visibly with their name and invisibly with a pattern tied to their copy, expiring, revocable, download off unless you turn it on. You see who opened it, which pages they reached and how long they stayed. And the honest limit: a watermark is not DRM — somebody determined can retype a script, and no tool stops that. The whole answer, including the parts that are not reassuring.
Does the person reading need an account?
No. It opens in a browser, no account and no app. That is the point: a producer on a phone will never make one, and a tool that insists is a tool that does not get read.
Can an artist see the whole script?
No. They see their own scenes and lines — never the script, never a download. Ask the engine to widen it and it refuses; ask the database and a constraint refuses; and the refusal is written to the audit log. Three layers for one promise. Who sees what.
Money
What does it cost?
Writers are free, for good — three projects, the full editor, every language, PDF and Final Draft export. Productions pay per production while they are shooting. The plans.
Is the free tier a trial?
No — it is a plan. No time limit, no card, and it does not stop working after a fortnight. Pay when a production needs the production features.
What happens when I stop paying?
At the end of the period you have paid for, the production goes read-only. Nothing is deleted, every export keeps working, and if you come back it is all still there. Plans, renewals and cancellation.
Us
Who is behind it?
It is built in Hyderabad by Naveen Kumar Davuluri, who is also shooting a Telugu web series — which is why the features are the ones that go wrong on a set. About.
Do you have SOC 2, a pen test, TPN?
Not yet — none of the three — and we will not claim one until it has happened. Security lists the gaps rather than hiding them. If you need one before you can sign, ask and we will tell you the date we can have it.
Where is my data kept?
India by default — PostgreSQL in ap-south-1, Cloudflare for compute and object storage. A Studio agreement can choose another region, and then every store moves together, including the backups, because a residency promise that forgets one store is a lie nobody notices until an auditor asks. Sub-processors.