So I was wondering. There some stories ideas I'd like to get copyrighted so I could talk about them without worrying that somebody would steal the idea. What I was wondering is if a simple plot outline explaining the main characters and situations was good enough. Like if I had a movie idea could I copyright an outline/treatment or would I have to write the whole screenplay for it to count. Also, can you send in multiple stories under one copyright or does each one have to be seperate?
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Only a product can be copyrighted, not ideas. You can write a script and then mail it to yourself and never open it. This creates a legal document, but it's not really tight or offical.
Who's going to be stealing your ideas anyway? I hope your not going to show them to any people who would want to steal them before they're ready, and they're not going to be ready before you have created a product out of them anyway.
This is assuming that your ideas are so new and unique that they're stealable too. Unless it's something so amazing and creative that it would revolutionize the industry (game, movies, fiction, whatever. You havn't even told us what your ideas are for) I wouldn't worry about anyone stealing it.
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I'm not talking about patents for product/invention ideas. I'm talking about literary copyrights. Like for short stories, novels, screenplays, etc. The mailing to yourself thing isn't at all legally binding or usable.I want that Mulan McNugget sauce, Morty!Comment
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I was too.I'm not talking about patents for product/invention ideas. I'm talking about literary copyrights. Like for short stories, novels, screenplays, etc.
The mailing to yourself thing isn't at all legally binding or usable.This creates a legal document, but it's not really tight or offical.Comment
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Ideas can be copyrighted. It's called "Intellectual Property".
This may help you: http://creativecommons.org/AIM: JeremyLaCroix
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No. They can't. I couldn't sue the creators of Lost because I "totaly thought of it first," for example. If I had written a screenplay about a group of plane crash survivers on a mystery island then I might have a case.
You have to put your ideas into a tangable form. A product.Last edited by Loki; 02-08-2006, 06:07 PM.Comment
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You just have to have your idea "out there" in some form to prove such a case, but it's totally tangible.
For example, put it on a website. It's (usually) more than enough evidence to back you up.AIM: JeremyLaCroix
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Make a cheap copy of all your stuff and staple it together. Slap a title on there. Now you can say it's a comic, a magazine, a graphic novel, whatever.
Dave has some sort of copyright on his sketchbook island stuff. When I see him again, I'll ask.Eat Smello.Comment
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That's what I'm saying. You're making a product. In your example, it's a website.You just have to have your idea "out there" in some form to prove such a case, but it's totally tangible.Comment
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Yeah, I guess we're in agreement, then. If you have an idea you shouldn't just leave it on paper. Put it somewhere. That's the moral for today.
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In order to sue ABC for Lost, Loki would have to have a script of his own and a script of the Pilot and then shows that over 51% of the Pilot was stolen from his script.
That's all I know.
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So basically, all of the video games Im designing and scripts IM writing I should just make a website for them?
also how do you copyright or trademark company names?
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I invented the Stephen King. That doesn't make it right or viable to go to his house and steal his pet scorpion.
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That would be pretty pathetic if actual video game companies stole ideas from RPGM games.Comment
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Actually I'd feel quite honored if a video game company stole one of my games. That would mean I was really on to something when I made it.
Besides, wasn't there that Legends game?"What if like...there was an exact copy of you somewhere, except they're the opposite gender, like you guys could literally have a freaky friday moment and nothing would change. Imagine the best friendship that could be found there."Comment
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