Perspective
Apr. 17, 2012
Protecting your TV and film ideas revisited
A few corrections to Thomas Rubin's article on protecting your film ideas. By David Gerber
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN
Thomas S. Rubin's interesting article, "How to Protect Your Rights to Scripts and Film Ideas" (April 6), contains an error. It says, "Writers can - and should - include a copyright notice on their scripts, whether or not the scripts were registered with the Copyright Office."Â But under 17 U.S.C. Section 401(a) copyright notice is appropriate only on "publicly distributed copies." Under Section 401(b)(2), the date i...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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