If you're worried, don't put it up. Problem solved.
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No-one ever steals my stuff. 
Thanks guys for your help. As I say I have high hopes for this sketch and am both fearful of plagarism on BCG and production companies using my ideas or making me sign a contract that in the long term could prove financially detrimental. Sense is telling me to seek legal advice from my brother in law, who is a lawyer, before going ahead with this.
Quote: IT David @ November 15 2009, 7:10 PM GMTThanks guys for your help. As I say I have high hopes for this sketch and am both fearful of plagarism on BCG and production companies using my ideas or making me sign a contract that in the long term could prove financially detrimental. Sense is telling me to seek legal advice from my brother in law, who is a lawyer, before going ahead with this.
That sounds like a very wise move David.
I think so too! I am in the process of writing my second sketch which, and, as it is in it's development stages, I may risk in critique.
Quote: IT David @ November 15 2009, 7:10 PM GMTThanks guys for your help. As I say I have high hopes for this sketch and am both fearful of plagarism on BCG and production companies using my ideas or making me sign a contract that in the long term could prove financially detrimental. Sense is telling me to seek legal advice from my brother in law, who is a lawyer, before going ahead with this.
Very wise David, when you consider the amounts people get paid for sketches best seek legal representation.
Sketches are ten a penny, frankly. Given the hundreds of sketch writers out there, the chances of writing a truly original sketch are very small. Realising a good sketch idea is far more of a challenge than dreaming it up in the first place. Critique exists partly to get useful feedback in order to hone your sketch (or sitcom) to a better standard. 
Quote: Marc P @ November 15 2009, 7:19 PM GMTVery wise David, when you consider the amounts people get paid for sketches best seek legal representation.
Yep, don't want to get short-changed on one's full quota of peanuts.
Quote: IT David @ November 15 2009, 7:10 PM GMTSense is telling me to seek legal advice from my brother in law, who is a lawyer, before going ahead with this.
Are you sure you can trust him? Family or no, lawyers are not reknowned for being the most honest people in the world.
I personally keep my sketches in a high-security Swiss bank, which until recently stored illicit Nazi gold. You can't be too careful. 
i think the safest thing to do is just lock it in a safe, until someone comes along and offers you a suitcase full of money, sight unseen.
EDIT: Waits to be sued by Walker for stealing his material.
I always blindfold my agent and personally read the sketches to her, just in case she has a photographic memory. I also redact punchlines until my payment has cleared.
Quote: IT David @ November 15 2009, 12:25 PM GMTsuicide is a dreadful thing not only for the people who are so unease with the world that they have to take their lives but also their families too, and I question if therefore it is a suitable subject for a comedy sketch.
Quote: IT David @ November 15 2009, 7:15 PM GMTDads Army was both moving and funny and didn't at any time in it's long and illustrious tenure as Britains most popular comedy have to resort to this type of subject matter.
I'm with David (as opposed to 'I'm with stupid). Suicide is very naughty and should be punishable by death, eh, ITDave? 
Quote: Timbo @ November 15 2009, 7:48 PM GMTEDIT: Waits to be sued by Walker for stealing his material.
You'll be hearing from Susan N's lawyers (me and them have bonded over the years)!
Quote: Tim Walker @ November 15 2009, 7:53 PM GMT
I am not sure a restraining order counts as bonding...
Quote: Timbo @ November 15 2009, 8:05 PM GMTI am not sure a restraining order counts as bonding...
In a sense, I am a political martyr. Though try telling that to 'Amnesty', the uncaring bastards. 