Advertising agencies have long asked prospective clients to pay pitch fees, to compensate them for the time and effort that goes into creating pitches - even if they end up unsuccessful. Singapore's Central Provident Fund is now offering such fees. In general, we don't advocate pitch fees because it could reduce your claim to compensation if you lose a pitch, but your ideas are used anyway.
T-shirt designs to support native Americans in the Dakota Access Pipeline dispute are themselves subject of dispute, with lots of rip offs jumping onto the bandwagon.
There are lessons for anyone with an idea in Google's suit against Uber over self-driving technology.
The fashion industry is particularly rife with idea theft. Better PitchMark your designs before you pitch them to a fashion design house.
How to protect your brilliant idea from being stolen? Technology writer Mehul Rajput has given the issue some thought, specifically as it relates to smart phone apps. He sees these as the latest virtual "picks and shovels" for Creators to mine the treasured seams of internet gold and quickly turn a dream into a fortune. But he has this warning.
"If you, too, are an entrepreneur in the area of m
Comedian Conan O'Brien is defending himself against claims by another comedian that he stole his jokes.
What the controversy over Donald Trump's inauguration cake tells us about idea theft.
You can find many articles online giving good advice on how to prevent idea theft. But how effective are they really?
Colonel Harland Sanders' nephew hands a newspaper reporter a scrap book, which includes a handwritten note of the 11 secret herbs and spices. If you were the creator of the next KFC, how would you prevent this happening to you?
Flossy P, an Australian artist who is known for drawing giant wombats, discovered her designs were ripped off by a US-based online company. The artist found out that the picture of the giant wombat she drew were printed in poor quality on art prints and t-shirts, and were being sold at higher prices and advertised with promotional photographs taken from her Flossy P Facebook page.
A Florida-based advertising agency creates a mock campaign for the Libertarian candidate in the US presidential election, and promptly saw Gary Johnson's campaign use it ...without compensation.
A suit against Warner Bros has taken another step forward, with a Los Angeles Court reportedly rejecting the studio's bid to evade a claim by artist Joe DeVito.
