STEAMBOAT WILLIE: Using Famous Characters to Break-In!

Every year, famous pop-culture characters enter the public domain, and nothing is stopping them from catapulting a screenwriter's successful break into today's show business market. This live webinar will demystify the process of utilizing pop-culture characters from the past to create brand new intellectual property. Participants will learn how to search public databases including from the U.S. Copyright Office, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, to find defunct brands and fictional characters they can populate their writing with – to increase the chances of their work attracting a buyer. We’ve all grown up with characters from popular culture that have inspired us to create our own works of fiction. Some of us have even written “fan-fiction” for our favorite shows and movie franchises. This live webinar will describe in detail how a writer can now take beloved characters and their backstories from the past and repurpose them in a contemporary framework that will bring them bac