Who has more claim to a story?
If a person gives you a basic concept for a movie and you toil to produce a script, who would have claim to the finished product?
Let's say that you not only poured in your creative soul to complete the script, but by the time you finished, very little of the original concept remained.
Example:
Someone tells you - I have an idea for a movie about a family in Thailand who's only hope to survive is kickboxing, but that doesn't work because of corruptiion in the business, so the mom marries a GI and they come to the states where they live happily ever after.
You change it to - The women of a family, in war torn Southeast Asia, struggle to survive by entering prostitution. Most die from ill treatment and war, one survives. She falls in love with a GI, they marry and come to the states.
Would you give the person that sparked the Idea any Money?
If a person gives you a basic concept for a movie and you toil to produce a script, who would have claim to the finished product?
Let's say that you not only poured in your creative soul to complete the script, but by the time you finished, very little of the original concept remained.
Example:
Someone tells you - I have an idea for a movie about a family in Thailand who's only hope to survive is kickboxing, but that doesn't work because of corruptiion in the business, so the mom marries a GI and they come to the states where they live happily ever after.
You change it to - The women of a family, in war torn Southeast Asia, struggle to survive by entering prostitution. Most die from ill treatment and war, one survives. She falls in love with a GI, they marry and come to the states.
Would you give the person that sparked the Idea any Money?
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