Stealing ideas for TV shows - that’s reality!
Good ideas can make or break a TV show - especially in reality TV. So it's no wonder writers are tempted to copy ideas from already successful shows. But does that make it right?
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After 25 years, a fly in U2’s anointment
Rock band U2 is being sued by guitarist Paul Rose for ripping off his sound for their hit track The Fly.
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Pitch fees: don’t bank on them
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.
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Standing Rock a sitting duck for intellectual property thieves
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.
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Google-Uber stoush shows the importance of being in the driver’s seat of your ideas
There are lessons for anyone with an idea in Google's suit against Uber over self-driving technology.
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Stitched up: The fashion industry's culture of appropriation
The fashion industry is particularly rife with idea theft. Better PitchMark your designs before you pitch them to a fashion design house.
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Seven ways to protect your ideas. Or is it eight?
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.
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Borrowed jokes: Idea theft is no laughing matter
Comedian Conan O'Brien is defending himself against claims by another comedian that he stole his jokes.
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How to avoid a bun fight over your original ideas
What the controversy over Donald Trump's inauguration cake tells us about idea theft.
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Do idea theft prevention measures you read about online really work?
You can find many articles online giving good advice on how to prevent idea theft. But how effective are they really?
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Is it idea theft when the keeper of KFC's secret recipe actually reveals it?
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?
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Keep calm…and take action
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.
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