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Q. I’ve just finished a short script and now planning on emailing it onto a few websites (mainly the ones suggested on your messages), but need to know if I should go through any copyrighting process? I realise I am unlikely to get payment for a short script but if it got made I would like the recognition, so wouldn't want my idea stolen or reused. A. Opinion differs. Inside the industry, people seem never to bother with any form of copyrighting. I certainly wouldn't. Outside, when you are knocking on the door, everyone seems to worry about it, to the slight bemusement of the people inside the studios. E-mailing your work does allow for an electronic ‘paper-trail’ giving you some recourse and the Writers’ Guild of America allows writers, whether a member or not, to register their work www.wga.org/subpage_register.aspx?id=1183. Personally I wouldn't bother - but then again that is ABSOLUTELY NOT legal advice :-) |
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