Q:
What is 
A: ScriptC.O.P. Stands for script certificate of publication. It is a notarized document
that proves beyond question the date that your work was exposed to the
world on the internet, and are admissible in a court of law. Writers'
Guild registration is not.
Q: What is screenscripts.com?
A: It is the electronic arm of the Hollywood Script Readers'
Digest (HSRD).
Q: What is the HSRD INDUSTRY
E-BOOK?
A: It is an anthology of synopses of unproduced screenplays and
proposals for TV series that is sent directly to active production companies
and literary agencies worldwide in the form of a ezine.
Q: Does the producer
or agent contact you or the writer if s/he is interested in the property?
A: The interested parties can contact you directly for a look at
your script(s). Screenscipts.com and the HSRD play no direct role in
negotiations.
Q: How is my work protected?
A: By posting your work on our website's Cyberlog™,
you are protecting your work better than by Writers' Guild registration
or federal copyright. Neither of those enables you to prove access to
your work, the one indispensable element in making a charge of plagiarism
stick.
Q: Will you corroborate
our presence on your Cyberlog™ and/or the date of the ebook publication?
A: We'll do more than that. If someone tries to rip off your
work, we will join you in pursuing them. Anybody who violates your copyright
violates ours. So who's going to steal? It's easier for the movers and
shakers to deal with you fairly and honestly if you publish your work
on screenscripts.com or in the HSRD. Nobody wants to mess with two plaintiffs
in a plagiarism suit.
Q: Can you guarantee
me that a big producer or agent will read my synopsis or proposal after
it is sent to them?
A: We wish. And anybody who does promise you that is probably
lying. All of us are subject to people's moods, work schedules, and
predilections. Suffice it to say that virtually every notable producer
and agent in the film business is a recipient of our printed catalog.
What they do with it is out of our control.
Q: Do you receive a fee
or a commission for any work sold, above what is charged to publish
in the printed catalog or on the Cyberlog™?
A: The Hollywood Script Readers' Digest and screenscripts.com
receive no fees or commissions--and make no claims to such--for any
work sold whose synopsis or proposal has appeared therein.
