"webnovel" isn't copyrighted

Welcome back to the tutorial 101 when you are too lazy to Google it yourself.

Today's episode is the word "webnovel"

Webnovel is a type of novel that was written, created, and released in the world wide web.

So, the simple name and term is webnovel

And, what's up with this platform name you ask? It's Qidian.

They changed it into webnovel in later after successfully getting more rights to publish some famed webnovel from (China mostly, out of nowhere KR novel too)

That's it.