Protecting an idea
Protecting an idea
There is no way to protect your idea. You can only protect your execution of the idea. The means you have to take your idea and put it down on paper. Now you can do that as a script, novel, treatment, outline, or just a written version of your pitch. Once you have you idea on paper you can then copyright that with the Library of Congress and register it with the Writer's Guild.
Here is something else to keep in mind, if you copyright a pitch for an idea you have and then you tell someone just the log line there is nothing stopping from them from taking your log line and writing a script based on it. They only way they will be violating your copyright is if you tell them the pitch or show them the pitch and then they write something or create something that steals original and novel ideas from your pitch.
Rob