Viacom doesn't respond well to solicitation. Your best bet is to find a company already licensed to create SpongeBob toys, ideally using similar materials to what your idea would use, and approach them with it.
Ideas cannot be protected by copyright, only the expression of those ideas. If you have proof that your original work has been used without your permission, contact an experienced copyright attorney about sending a cease and desist notice.
A Copyright would protect an authors idea.
You cannot copyright an idea, only the expression of it. Printed instructions, for example, could be protected.
No; copyright protects specific expressions of ideas, not the ideas themselves.
Copyright does not protect ideas, only the expression of those ideas.
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i have no idea what so ever:)
Ideas cannot be protected by copyright: only the expression of the ideas.
Ideas cannot be protected by copyright; only the expression of the ideas.
Ideas cannot be protected by copyright. If your idea is a new process, you may wish to seek patent protection for it.
First off, you need a business license if you are planning to operate as a company. Then, you need to copyright your idea and get a certificate, after which the product will have to be tested at government laboratories. If it is certified safe, you will get a license to sell it.
A patent or trademark is applied for directly to the US Patent and Trademark office. You must submit drawings, descriptions, and other paperwork proving you have an idea or change to an existing idea that would make the product or item uniquely your own. You are then given a patent number that forbids anyone to use your idea without your permission for a specific period of time, depending on the item. There are also fees involved. A copyright can be issued one of two ways. You can apply for an ISBN number through the Library of Congress or you can simply publish your work. Even putting the copyright symbol on a picture or text is your mark that you are forbidding anyone else to use it without your express permission. But if you are ever pushed into proving you own something in print, you need to be able to date your first copyright of the item. This also is beginning to include internet postings like the one you're reading now.