Copyrights - Starting a new cartoon series
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 10:04 am
Hello Guys
A few years ago I had the idea and dream of creating my own animated cartoon and establishing a channel on YouTube. The idea of combining something creative with building something, in this case a YouTube channel, excited me a lot. This year I started with Moho and quickly achieved success, so that I am currently working on several episodes. The characters have their own recognition value.
As time goes by, the whole project gets more and more quality and as I have also invested in hardware and software, I am increasingly concerned about copy protection and in general how I can protect my works from being copied. I know it probably sounds pretentious, but the thought of someone else, maybe a bigger studio, picking up the idea and making it big at a greater speed than me worries me. On the other hand, of course I want to publish and maybe eventually build a brand and sell some merchandise here and there. Again, I don't want to sound pretentious, but I've rarely had anything in my life that I've been so passionate about.
Can you please give me some food for thought on how to proceed here? I know that copy protection is automatic when the work is created. But in practice, you have to be able to prove it. Do you think it would be a good idea to first produce as many episodes as possible without publishing them in order to then have as much material as possible for YouTube, in order to quickly position oneself widely with the idea, with the characters and the way these characters behave? Do you think it would make sense to register a trademark in the future?
Thank you very much for your help. I am glad that this community exists
A few years ago I had the idea and dream of creating my own animated cartoon and establishing a channel on YouTube. The idea of combining something creative with building something, in this case a YouTube channel, excited me a lot. This year I started with Moho and quickly achieved success, so that I am currently working on several episodes. The characters have their own recognition value.
As time goes by, the whole project gets more and more quality and as I have also invested in hardware and software, I am increasingly concerned about copy protection and in general how I can protect my works from being copied. I know it probably sounds pretentious, but the thought of someone else, maybe a bigger studio, picking up the idea and making it big at a greater speed than me worries me. On the other hand, of course I want to publish and maybe eventually build a brand and sell some merchandise here and there. Again, I don't want to sound pretentious, but I've rarely had anything in my life that I've been so passionate about.
Can you please give me some food for thought on how to proceed here? I know that copy protection is automatic when the work is created. But in practice, you have to be able to prove it. Do you think it would be a good idea to first produce as many episodes as possible without publishing them in order to then have as much material as possible for YouTube, in order to quickly position oneself widely with the idea, with the characters and the way these characters behave? Do you think it would make sense to register a trademark in the future?
Thank you very much for your help. I am glad that this community exists