Question 1

What exactly does EARNIN TRACKER track?

Accepted Answer

Every fingerprintable creation: songs, stems, films, clips, photographs, illustrations, paintings, sculptures, books, articles, theses, datasets, code, product designs, brand assets, recipes, choreography, lesson plans, voice, likeness — and ordinary social posts, comments and captions. Each gets a Universal Work ID, and we watch for its use across digital, software, hardware, broadcast, retail and physical surfaces.

Question 2

Can academics earn from theses, dissertations and papers?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and it is one of the fastest-growing categories on the platform. Graduate and faculty work is cited, downloaded, syllabused, reprinted in course packs, quoted in commercial reports and used to train models. We collect citation royalties, reprography and collective-licensing income, dataset licence fees, lecture-recording royalties, textbook royalties, peer-review honoraria and downstream grant residuals.

Question 3

I have no copyright, trademark or patent. Can I still be paid?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Registration is never a condition of earning. We pay on evidence of authorship plus evidence of use. No copyright registration, trademark, patent, design right, ISRC, ISBN, DOI, collecting-society membership, publisher, label, agency, business registration or monetisation eligibility is required. Formal rights only widen our enforcement options — they never gate your income.

Question 4

How does the 90-day guarantee work?

Accepted Answer

From the moment you sign up, your first remittance is guaranteed within 90 days. Your dashboard shows a live countdown and every milestone notification. If we miss the deadline, we waive our commission on that payout entirely.

Question 5

What does the platform charge?

Accepted Answer

Nothing upfront and no subscription. We take a commission only on money we actually recover and remit — starting at 12% and stepping down to 4% as your recovered income grows. We only earn when you get paid, so our incentive is to recover more for you.

Question 6

Does it work if my account is demonetised, suspended or deleted?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Detection happens off-platform, against the work itself rather than your account. Demonetised, shadow-banned, age-restricted, suspended and deleted accounts keep accruing income because reuse of your work elsewhere is what generates the payment.

Question 7

Billions of creators are already indexed — how?

Accepted Answer

We pre-enlist the world's creators by fingerprinting publicly observable works and building a provisional ledger against the authorship signals attached to them. Nothing is paid out until a human verifies identity, so your ledger simply waits for you. Search your name, handle or profile link to see what is being held.

Question 8

How do I claim what is being held for me?

Accepted Answer

Three steps: verify your identity, link your gfinos.app account as the settlement destination, then release the claim. Verification runs identity checks with fraud rate limiting, and every action is written to a tamper-evident history you can inspect and integrity-check yourself.

Question 9

Why gfinos.app?

Accepted Answer

GFinOS is the settlement rail we remit to — it handles multi-currency payout in 180+ countries, so we can pay creators without asking for local bank plumbing. Link it once and payments arrive automatically as they clear.

Question 10

My creator category is not listed. What do I do?

Accepted Answer

Suggest it. Any signed-in creator can submit a new category with a description and example works; an admin reviews every submission and you get a notification with the decision. Approved categories are wired into detection across all our surfaces.

Question 11

Can I hide how much I earn?

Accepted Answer

You can hide the exact figure, your streams, country, networks and payout status from your public page at any time, and every change is written to a privacy audit log. What you cannot do is remove yourself from the rankings — placement on the top-earners list is not optional, only the numbers are.

Question 12

How are collaborators and co-authors paid?

Accepted Answer

Set up split rules once. Each rule matches by work title, platform or payment type, and every tracked event is divided by contributor percentage before settlement — so co-writers, producers, co-authors, research collaborators, editors and crew are paid from the same event automatically.

Question 13

Am I compensated when AI systems use my work?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Model training, retrieval, fine-tuning and generated-output similarity are tracked as their own payment types through our AI consent layer. You can price, permit or refuse AI use per work, and refusal still produces an enforceable record.

Question 14

What about offline and non-digital use?

Accepted Answer

Tracking is not limited to the internet. Retail floors, hospitality and in-store audio, broadcast, cinema, print, packaging, transport and airline media, gyms, events, signage, embedded firmware and hardware bundles are all monitored surfaces.

Question 15

How do earnings appear in my dashboard automatically?

Accepted Answer

Connect your sources — platforms, marketplaces, repositories, distributors and payment providers — and imported earnings events flow into your ledger continuously, broken down by payment type, platform, territory and status, with commission and net settlement calculated on every event.

Question 16

Is my identity data safe?

Accepted Answer

Identity checks are risk-scored and rate-limited against takeover attempts, every verification action is hash-chained into an append-only history that cannot be edited or deleted, and access to your records is scoped to you and reviewing staff only.

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