Quoted from Electric Dreamer CR, Thank you for the welcome and the advice. I'm enjoying the site very much and the people that use it. Why do you think I should delete the post? I'm not looking to sell the script. However, registering with the WGA or posting the script here helps protect the original content within it, I'd like to know. Heh, there's always plenty of work for lawyers. Regards, E.D.

Hey E.D.,

I think you've gotten some varying advice here, and I think you should take it all in and ultimately decide what you want to do.  As you mentioned, there is always plenty of work for the lawyers!

For my money, even though this was an excercise for you, and you don't really expect anything to come of it, I'd spend the $20 and register it.  Sure, nothing may never come of it, but the way I see it, you worked hard on putting something together and you may as well memorialize it, even if it costs you $20.

The reason I mentioned deleting this post is because, one never knows what may come down the road.  As I understand it, and I'm no expert here as I slept my way through copyrights (pass fail classes - gotta love em'), you can't copyright an idea, but why would you want any evidence out there on the internets that this other work was even in the back of your mind?  

As you siad, you aren't expecting to come of this, but you did work hard on it, and you made it your own, so why even advertise that there was a connection to an older movie.  I gurantee you that there are any number of working screenwriters who have been sitting in their living room watching a movie, and the seed of a new idea was born.  The one thing they probably didn't do was to advertise the connection on a website.  All's fair in love and war, you know?

Anyway, best of luck.

CR