Register your work and your script
Certify the authorship and date of the script and the finished audiovisual work before disclosing it.
A short film, a video or an animation combines script, image and music from several people. Register the work and its authorship with a certain date before presenting it to festivals, platforms or distributors.
Protect every layer of your work and make clear who contributed what, before you reveal it.
Certify the authorship and date of the script and the finished audiovisual work before disclosing it.
Script, direction, music, animation... Invite co-authors and record each contribution.
Register the work before sending it to festivals, platforms or production companies, without losing control.
Use an electronic signature to formalise co-production, distribution or music agreements.
In audiovisual work, script, direction, music and animation coexist... and with them, many possible authorship disputes. Registering the work before sending it to a festival or a distributor records what existed, when, and with what split among the co-authors.
Provide the video file or the script as a PDF.
State the split and whether there's AI assistance.
You get permanent proof of authorship with a date.
Ideal if you want to register a specific work on a one-off basis. You receive the certificate by email.
For those who create audiovisual work regularly and want to register without limits, solo or as a team.
The usual approach is to register the script before shooting and, later on, the finished audiovisual work. But those aren't the only important elements. We also recommend registering other key materials to protect the development and commercialisation of your project, such as the treatment, the storyboard and the sales documents (dossier, pitch deck or format bible).
By inviting the co-authors to the registration, so that each person's contribution is recorded (script, direction, music, animation...).
Before disclosing the work: presenting it to festivals, platforms or distributors. That's when proof of authorship with a date is most valuable.
No. Copyright does not protect ideas, but their concrete development. To protect a format, you should register it in as much detail as possible: exhaustive rundowns (with mechanics, timings, sections, lighting, music), the project bible or the recording of a pilot. In addition, backing this up with the registration of the associated trademarks and trade names will considerably strengthen your protection.
Yes. The evidence is recognised in the countries of the Berne Convention and by WIPO.
Before that festival or that distributor, get your authorship registered with solid proof.
Safe Creative, intellectual property registry and trusted third party since 2007. Registration is voluntary; copyright exists by creation (Berne Convention). The proof is based on technological evidence (three fingerprints and eIDAS timestamping, auditing on Ethereum), the assessment of which is up to the court. It does not protect ideas or formats, but the finished work. Information provided without the character of legal advice.