I am about to finish my business App and soon I will make the presentation to my future client to see if I can rent it. My question is if I can go to the state department to pay the copyright for my project created in Corona SDK? Already once working in music I went through a bad experience and I could not do anything legally because I did not have copyrights. My concern is that after seeing my business proposal someone can steal the idea of my app.
Thanks in advance
Faced similar situation before. Client ended up copying the idea and did it themselves. About copyright, will need to ask the relevant party for permission when the app is launched for mass-market. But i think if it is just demo or proposal, it should be ok.
Depending also, on how much your apps is going to innovate in some aspect, you can also ask your customer to sign and NDA. As I do not know the context of what you want to do, it may not apply in your case.
Talk to a lawyer. While we all (the professionals in the forums) deal with these issues, none of us (unless we’re lawyers) is truly qualified to advise you on this.
PS - I’m not saying anyone has given you bad advice, but at the end of the day a lawyer will best be able to advise you.
Roaming Gamer has the best advice. A lawyer would be able to guide you as to whether a Non-Disclosure and/or a Non-Compete contract was in order. Likely the latter.
They can easily ‘Non-Disclose’ if they write their own :P. A Non compete basically wouldn’t allow it for a period of time.
Sorry guys but there is no such thing as copyright in games… this is why there are thousands of match 3 clones, thousands of CoC clones, etc.
When I contacted the state department they told me that ideas can not be registered, ideas have to be expressed in something physical, software, etc.
There are some things that can not be registered for example:
“It is not possible to inscribe mere ideas, concepts, proposals or systems that are not incorporated into a means of expression contemplated by the law or incorporated in a way that does not comply with the legislative intent of protecting the creativity of the author. In this sense, it must satisfy a minimum but sufficient level of originality.
Nor is it possible to inscribe those works created to advertise or promote goods or services, those of the officials of the Commonwealth created in the performance of their duties, nor compilations, anthologies or abstracts of fragments of works by other authors.
Finally, it is not possible to inscribe in the Registry any inventions of novel mechanisms or processes of purely utilitarian or functional nature nor the names of products, groups or companies, nor mere titles”
Faced similar situation before. Client ended up copying the idea and did it themselves. About copyright, will need to ask the relevant party for permission when the app is launched for mass-market. But i think if it is just demo or proposal, it should be ok.
Depending also, on how much your apps is going to innovate in some aspect, you can also ask your customer to sign and NDA. As I do not know the context of what you want to do, it may not apply in your case.
Talk to a lawyer. While we all (the professionals in the forums) deal with these issues, none of us (unless we’re lawyers) is truly qualified to advise you on this.
PS - I’m not saying anyone has given you bad advice, but at the end of the day a lawyer will best be able to advise you.
Roaming Gamer has the best advice. A lawyer would be able to guide you as to whether a Non-Disclosure and/or a Non-Compete contract was in order. Likely the latter.
They can easily ‘Non-Disclose’ if they write their own :P. A Non compete basically wouldn’t allow it for a period of time.
Sorry guys but there is no such thing as copyright in games… this is why there are thousands of match 3 clones, thousands of CoC clones, etc.
When I contacted the state department they told me that ideas can not be registered, ideas have to be expressed in something physical, software, etc.
There are some things that can not be registered for example:
“It is not possible to inscribe mere ideas, concepts, proposals or systems that are not incorporated into a means of expression contemplated by the law or incorporated in a way that does not comply with the legislative intent of protecting the creativity of the author. In this sense, it must satisfy a minimum but sufficient level of originality.
Nor is it possible to inscribe those works created to advertise or promote goods or services, those of the officials of the Commonwealth created in the performance of their duties, nor compilations, anthologies or abstracts of fragments of works by other authors.
Finally, it is not possible to inscribe in the Registry any inventions of novel mechanisms or processes of purely utilitarian or functional nature nor the names of products, groups or companies, nor mere titles”