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How to submit ideas to companies for commercials without getting screwed?
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anyone know how and they dont just rip me off?
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well, date your shit and put a C with a circle around it when you show it to them. its illegal for them to copy your shit, you could probably sue them pretty easly.
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you cant just put a coppyright logo on it, they can do what ever they want if it isnt actually copy righted.. soo i guess i gotta copy right it first..
does that cost money
(notice im so good at buisness?)
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tell me your idea...i can keep a secret
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just make sure that you have a contract so that they have to give you royalties. the companies wont screw you because they have a reputation to keep up
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you should really be talking to a lawyer about this. not some boneheads on newschoolers
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ok son heres the way to do it the paupers way: copy your proposal written down in detail (and i mean DETAIL) and then put that shit in an envelope and send it to yourself...you need to ensure its a heavy duty envelope and that you get some kind of security seal on the opening - you can get this done at your post office or w/e you yanks have. Then send it to your home address - thus ensuring a copy which is officialy dated (the post stamp) and so proves that you had this idea before them so you can sue them to shit
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I used to think that too... but I guess that actually doesnt hold up in court anymore. Then again, thats all heresay, so who knows.
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no theres no question it works mate
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You don't have to register for copyright, it exists as soon as you create the work. You don't have to put the C on the work for copyright to exist either but most people do it to alert people that might be thinking of copying/stealing it. The hard part is proving that they stole/used your idea. So you jsut need to document it and copy it well before sending it off.
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I'm sure a brief talk with a lawyer friend( of family, father of a friend etc.) can't be bad either.
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No way! if you put all the skills together you basicly get a lawer
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i have an invention for cell phone companies. like a standard feature. i want to tell them, but i want money and i dont know which one to tell.
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