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How to copyright a script Page 2
Me and my friend set up a private forum to post our stuff in.
Quote: bushbaby @ May 8 2008, 1:35 PM BSTRoyal Mail Special delivery items have to be sealed or they won't be accepted.
At the point where the flap meets the env, you sign your name across it several times and get the Post office to datestamp across the 'seam' too. That way it would show if anyone opened it.
When it's delivered to yourself and you sign for it, you then store it.
If someone then nicks your work you take the env to a solicitor and he opens it. The proof is the datestamp on the item.
I think that may have been a joke!
you'd laugh at anything
Quote: Paul W @ April 18 2008, 2:36 PM BSTLee's right mailing it to yourself is the easiest way to copyright it.
It will have a stamp of the date you recieved it. (Just don't open the envolope)
Most letters that I receive have illegible timestamps.
only Royal Mail Special Delivery will do.
Personally, I video myself holding that day's newspaper next to the script, with a demand that I'll send the next ten pages on receipt of unused banknotes in a brown paper bag. Sadly, I've never needed to use it but the plus side is, I made an appearance on America's Most Wanted.
Quote: Robin Kelly @ May 8 2008, 1:31 PM BSTDon't tell anyone but I posted lots of empty envelopes to myself in 1998 and when something is big at the box office I copy the script and seal it in one of those envelopes and then sue. It works every time.
so you're saying you take the credit for someone else's work?
Quote: Zuhaib @ May 19 2008, 10:38 AM BSTso you're saying you take the credit for someone else's work?
Don't knock it. The guy's a millionaire.
Or, he could have been expressing scepticism regarding the much-suggested envelope trick. Has it ever held up in court?
Similarly, posts on forums. These can be silently changed by administrators. Even server file system date-stamps are unreliable. File system meta-data is easily changed by those in the know.
My method. Print out your script and take a 'high-definition' photo of yourself, the scripts and the current Daily Mirror.
Quote: JohnnyD @ May 19 2008, 1:58 PM BSTtake a 'high-definition' photo of yourself, the scripts and the current Daily Mirror.
You're right, cos it's difficult to take a picture of yesterday's (or even a ten-year-old Mirror)!
Dan
Damn!
Gonna have to fall back on: 'If you're any good, there's plenty more where that came from'.
The other option is to self-publish it (somewhere like lulu.com) and obtain an ISBN number for it, then they'll keep a copy at the British Library for you.
Quote: JohnnyD @ May 19 2008, 1:58 PM BSTDon't knock it. The guy's a millionaire.
I just wouldn't feel comfortable taking someone else's work. If you have confidence in your own abilities then you shouldn't need to really. That's just my opinion.
Quote: JohnnyD @ May 19 2008, 1:58 PM BSTMy method. Print out your script and take a 'high-definition' photo of yourself, the scripts and the current Daily Mirror.
I refer the learned gentleman to the post a few above his own...
Quote: SlagA @ May 8 2008, 10:03 PM BSTPersonally, I video myself holding that day's newspaper next to the script, with a demand that I'll send the next ten pages on receipt of unused banknotes in a brown paper bag.
If it was a sandwich I would.