I’ve got a great idea for a screenplay! I haven’t written or copyrighted it yet, but I think I’ll post it on one of the popular internet sites on the planet, where the whole Goddamn world can read it. I’m sure nobody will steal it. I’m so clever. :rolleyes:
andrewdt85, there doesn’t seem to be much of a movement in your favor (on the facts, I confess, there probably won’t be), but the sheer volume of responses repeating endlessly the same themes should itself be assurance that neither the Chicago Reader nor SCMB subscribers have any interest in developing new ideas from old material (stay with me here, son). Variations on a familiar theme are a different matter, but then they always have been. Take heart: those who scorn you wouldn’t be caught dead borrowing your words, and those who dismiss your concerns will be your sudden allies should your worst fears come true. Artists and assholes are notoriously hard to get along with: on the chance that you’re the former rather than the latter, welcome. Otherwise, on the evidence, I guess I should say Welcome, also. So much for instilling civility among the newcomers.