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How to Protect Your Screenplays
How to Protect Your Screenplays
How to Protect Your Screenplays
Breaking-In the Biz: How to Protect Your Intellectual Property
By Jon James Miller
Mar 17, 2021
How to Protect Your Screenplays
IT DEPENDS: Your Contract and the Force Majeure, a Force to Be Reckoned With
By Christopher Schiller
Mar 31, 2020
Screenwriting How-To Articles
LEGALLY SPEAKING, IT DEPENDS: Where's My Money? Part 2
By Christopher Schiller
Aug 2, 2016
Screenwriting How-To Articles
LEGALLY SPEAKING, IT DEPENDS: Where's My Money? Part 1
By Christopher Schiller
Jul 19, 2016
Screenwriting How-To Articles
WRITER'S EDGE: How to Protect Your Material
By Steve Kaire
Jul 1, 2016
Screenwriting How-To Articles
LEGAL: Protecting Your Stories - Borrowed Elements or Stolen Idea?
By Script Magazine
May 13, 2016
Screenwriting How-To Articles
BEHIND THE LINES WITH DR: Protecting Your Writing - Land Mines with Love
By Doug Richardson
Feb 29, 2016
Screenwriter Interviews
SHORT CIRCUIT: Production - Setting It All Up
By Dan Goforth
Apr 17, 2015
Screenwriting How-To Articles
SCRIPT GODS MUST DIE: Adaptation, Get It On Paper
By Paul Peditto
Apr 1, 2015
Screenwriting How-To Articles
LEGALLY SPEAKING, IT DEPENDS: Negotiation
By Christopher Schiller
Feb 17, 2015
Behind the Lines with DR by Doug Richardson
BEHIND THE LINES WITH DR: Extra Credit
By Doug Richardson
Jan 19, 2015
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Behind the Lines with DR: Residual Angst
By Doug Richardson
Oct 6, 2014
Screenwriting How-To Articles
What Screenwriters Need to Know About Submission Releases
By Script Magazine
Sep 11, 2014
Breaking & Entering by Barri Evins
Breaking & Entering: In Good We Trust - But Get It In Writing
By Barri Evins
Apr 17, 2014
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Behind the Lines with DR: Writing Credits... How Small Do You Go?
By Doug Richardson
Jan 27, 2014
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Screenwriter's Guidepost: How Can I Protect My Script from Theft?
By Mario O. Moreno
Jan 20, 2014
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Writers on the Verge: How to Succeed in Screenwriting - The DON'T List
By Lee Jessup
Nov 7, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Legally Speaking, It Depends: Script Registration?
By Christopher Schiller
Sep 17, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Behind the Lines with DR: Writers Guild Arbitration - Fight or Flight
By Doug Richardson
Sep 9, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Notes from the Margins: The Dollar Option - Another Viewpoint
By Danny Manus
Sep 3, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Legally Speaking, It Depends: What is Copyright, Anyway?
By Christopher Schiller
Sep 3, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Behind the Lines with DR: Turning Japanese - Attaching a Director, Part 4
By Doug Richardson
Aug 26, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Visual Mindscape: Never Do a Free Option Agreement
By Bill Boyle
Aug 19, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Producer's POV: Do's and Don't's of Reality Show Pitch Proposals
By Heather Hale
Aug 9, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Legally Speaking, It Depends: Script Consultants, Good, Bad?
By Christopher Schiller
Aug 6, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Legally Speaking, It Depends: Script Options and Sales
By Christopher Schiller
Jul 23, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Legally Speaking, It Depends: Representation - Who, What, Why?
By Christopher Schiller
Jul 9, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Legally Speaking, It Depends: Genres
By Christopher Schiller
Jun 25, 2013
Screenwriter Blogs
Legally Speaking, It Depends: Ins and Outs of a Novel Adaptation
By Christopher Schiller
Jun 11, 2013
Screenwriter Blogs
Legally Speaking, It Depends: Ripped From the Headlines
By Christopher Schiller
May 28, 2013
Screenwriter Blogs
Behind the Lines with DR: Writers, Directors & Writing Credits
By Doug Richardson
May 6, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Legally Speaking, It Depends: Ideas are Free to Steal?
By Christopher Schiller
Apr 30, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Legally Speaking, It Depends: They Stole My Movie Idea!
By Christopher Schiller
Apr 16, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Just Effing Ask Julie Gray: Idea Theft - Threat or Myth?
By Julie Gray
Mar 5, 2013
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Story Talk: Playwrights Have It Better Than Screenwriters—or Do They?
By Jeff Lyons
Oct 10, 2012
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Balls of Steel: Putting Your Script Out There
By Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
Jun 21, 2012
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Balls of Steel: Pitching Tips
By Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
May 30, 2012
Screenwriter Blogs
Balls of Steel: Writers in the Ring of Arbitration
By Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
May 24, 2012
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Balls of Steel: Is Our Work Safe?
By Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
Oct 6, 2011
How to Write a Screenplay
Legal Opinion: Is History Copyrightable?
By Mark A. Fischer Alicia Parmentier
Sep 7, 2011
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Balls of Steel: Managing Expectations of Pitching Events
By Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
Jun 10, 2011
Screenwriting How-To Articles
PrimeTime: The Truth About Protecting Your Work
By Chad Gervich
Jun 6, 2011
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Magic Bullet Quickie: Hollywood Loves My Script?! Oh #%&! Now what?
By Michael Ferris
May 19, 2011
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Magic Bullet Quickie: "Will Producers Steal My Work?"
By Michael Ferris
Mar 14, 2011
Screenwriting How-To Articles
PRIMETIME: Why Some TV Stars Get "Producer" Credits... and How Important is Life Experience?
By Chad Gervich
Jan 14, 2011
Screenwriting How-To Articles
PRIMETIME: Can I legally write a story based on another writer's character?
By Chad Gervich
Sep 10, 2010
Screenwriting How-To Articles
Ask Script Q&A: Rights, Royalties and Reselling
By Script Magazine
Mar 3, 2010
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