STEAMBOAT WILLIE: Using Famous Characters to Break-In!
This live webinar will describe in detail how a writer can now take beloved characters and their backstories from the past and repurpose them in a contemporary framework that will bring them back to life for a new generation.
Every year, famous pop-culture characters enter the public domain, and nothing is stopping them from catapulting a screenwriter's successful break into today's show business market.
This live webinar will demystify the process of utilizing pop-culture characters from the past to create brand new intellectual property. Participants will learn how to search public databases including from the U.S. Copyright Office, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, to find defunct brands and fictional characters they can populate their writing with – to increase the chances of their work attracting a buyer.
We’ve all grown up with characters from popular culture that have inspired us to create our own works of fiction. Some of us have even written “fan-fiction” for our favorite shows and movie franchises.
This live webinar will describe in detail how a writer can now take beloved characters and their backstories from the past and repurpose them in a contemporary framework that will bring them back to life for a new generation. By the end of this webinar, writers will learn how to search and acquire intellectual property from the past legally, by researching which characters and brands have fallen into the public domain.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
- How to search public databases to find public domain intellectual properties
- How to incorporate pop-culture characters of the past into your writing
- How to recapture the magic of a pop-culture character from the past
- How to recreate and old character’s backstory for a contemporary audience
- How to secure the rights to characters and brands everybody knows from the past
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Writers who want to take an old character or brand and make it new again
- Writers who want to market their work utilizing public domain properties from the past
- Writers who want to build a new franchise using old intellectual property, legally
- Screenwriters who want to recreate the magic of an old character from the past
- Writers who want to know how to search public information databases for new content
Learn from an expert instructor!
Jon James Miller started his Hollywood career as a script reader for producers at 20th Century Fox Studios, Paramount Pictures, and MGM Studios. Jon co-wrote Adapting Sideways: How To Turn Your Screenplay Into A Publishable Novel (Komenar Publishing), which chronicled the process of adapting his award-winning screenplay into a novel. Jon’s debut novel, Looking For Garbo, was published by Amphorae Publishing Group in 2019. Jon has been featured in Creative Screenwriting Magazine, and is a frequent contributor to SCRIPT Magazine. He is represented by Agent Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
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