COPYRIGHT
SCRIPTWRITING

With script writing. The writer may have some copyright issues. For example if they were to use a famous phrase or some lines a script already made.

To prevent it from being an issue, the writer would have to get permission from the owner of the script to use the lines. So they would maybe have to email the person and give them an idea of what their script is about and why they want to use these lines in it.

Also, if the writer were to use a booknovel that is published, the writer again would have to get permission from that person who made the book before writing up a script based of the book/novel.

To overcome these problems, the ending credits could say that, if it was based on a book/novel, that it was based on that book/novel, so they are not trying to make out it is theirs.

When publishing a script. They will have tp copyright it, to do this they would have to send it to themelves and when it gets to them to not open it, incase someone tries to pass it off as theirs so the writer would have evidence.