First, read this article from the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain. Next, read on. Nervousness or paranoia about idea-theft is one of the easiest and quickest ways of telling the industry: “I’m brand new and I have no idea what I’m doing!!!” There are a few things for you to consider here. Firstly, if you wrote the script, if your name is on it, then by UK Copyright Law then it is yours, you own it, it is like anything else you own. Secondly, look in the mirror and ask yourself – is your script really, truly, amazingly original? Are you 100% confident it is an idea of such towering genius, that no-one else in the whole wide heavily-populated world would not have thought of it too? If it is a phenomenal, freakishly-good idea then you’re within your rights to keep it under lock and key. However, if it is not a complete one-off, a thing of amazing, once-in-a-generation skill, then you are going to look slightly silly making a fuss and appearing paranoid, when 98% of the skill in screenwriting is in the execution of an idea, and not the idea itself. In some ways, having a great idea is the easy bit, now turning it into an awesome screenplay that is ready to be sent out to the market…now that’s difficult. In addition, we are not a production company, we are a script consultancy, and stealing ideas is just not something that could result in any upside for us and, for that matter, idea theft is just not something the industry deals in – people would much rather pay up for an awesome, finished script. For US and international screenwriters, the situation is different and there are a couple of useful articles on the differences between Writers Guild Registry vs Copyright in the USA at The Writers Store and Go Into The Story. Industrial Scripts receives a huge number of submission, and similarities of subject matter often occur. We cannot undertake to compensate you if material similar to yours, received coincidentally from another source, is subsequently commissioned or produced.