I have applied multiple times to a site that uses online portfolios. I wonder if they use their site to get ideas and scam them from people who do not have a copyrighted animation/idea/flash/advertisement idea/concept. Certainly your only options are to get your stuff copyrighted or just don't give them the concepts/ideas. The bigger point is ... how much do you trust these companies. In particular, well, can't say for legal reasons, and I am sure there are many others. I hate cheaters.Creative artists, flash, animation, and online users, who find sites that require a portfolio scam your ideas?
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I'm sure some do. I have a multi-million dollar invention idea, but no idea who to trust.
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Well, first of all, in USA and probably UK, you have copyright the instant you create something. You can register with the government, but that only helps if you plan to defend in court or otherwise get very serious and just proves date, not ownership. One defence is to watermark the images or put a clear copyright notice in the corner, which you can do without registering.
Second, you can only copyright the exact image, you can't copyright the idea. A guy was all in an uproar because he took a picture of a bunch of people laying down with their heads together and feet in a circle with the people being of different colors and this was to show peaceful diversity. He wanted to sue someone who took a picture of married couples of various ages in the same pose, because they stole his idea. But long before he took that picture, Busby Berkeley arranged beautiful women dancers or swimmers in the same pose. You can't copyright an idea.
Are your ideas so great that someone else can't come up with them and they are worth stealing?
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