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4.1 - Details of all types of intellectual property protection that are relevant to your project

NESTA suggestions:

"Please provide details of relevant dates, official numbers and any further action required.

Please refer to any search results from the Patent Office and details of who was responsible for filing any applications. If you have filed a patent and either subsequently withdrawn it or allowed it to lapsed please tell us about that here. If any prior art searches have been done, please explain by whom and what results were obtained."

Current entry:

Ten Weeks in the Head Bin by Michela Ledwidge registered with the Director's Guild of America.
Registration #: 930800
Material Type: SCREENPLAY
Registered By: MICHELA LEDWIDGE
Effective Date: 06/03/03
Expiry Date: 06/03/08

All Intellectual Property Rights were re-assigned to Michela Ledwidge from Brilliant Digital Entertainment by Herbert Geer & Rundle law firm of 385 Bourke Street, Melbourne Australia.
Date: 16/09/2002
Reference: GAH:SXM

The original treatment for 10 Weeks in the Head Bin was lodged with the Australian Writers Guild in 1997.

The focus of this project is an artistic experience aimed at a mass-market audience. DVD and internet infrastructure may be suitable for patenting but this may not be viable given the rapid development cycle and the need to leverage existing technology. Few games companies patent products. Based on the outcome of the (separate) SMART–funded feasibility study, thequality.com may file patents and registered designs related to developer and management products that support the re-mixable film experience of SANCTUARY.

I have registered the domain names modfilms.com, modfilms.net, remixablefilms.com and remixablefilms.net with a view to hosting the online community on one or more of these in the future.

Remixable film assets as distributed on DVD will be licensed to the purchaser under a derivation of the Creative Commons License to facilitate not-for-profit re-use. The specifics of this license are still being worked out with legal counsel, but boadly speaking the key license terms are IP attribution and non-commercal use.

Posted by .M. at October 17, 2003 02:17 PM