Don’t panic; people are not usually out to steal your screenplay writing.
Screenplay writers will have heard of the need to copyright their work, often because they’re paranoid that unscrupulous individuals may wish to steal their work. It does happen, but it’s rare. Go and Google copyright theft and you won’t find too many live and proved cases. The real problem is after your screenplay has been produced into a movie on DVD or via internet download; that’s when the real copyright theft hurts you the most, because you won’t get paid a cent on illegal bootlegging scams.
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