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Creatives, authors, copywriters, designers

Ideas, texts, logos, naming, scripts, and creative materials often travel before being approved, published, or paid. This section helps secure a version's existence before sending to clients, publishers, brands, or collaborators, creating a useful temporal trail when content might be copied, modified, or claimed by others.

  1. How to prove the prior existence of a story or script

    Ideas circulate, stories evolve, and sometimes reappear elsewhere. If you want to be able to say "this story existed before", you need to build a clear time trail. Here is how to document your work simply and usably.

  2. How to protect naming or a slogan proposed to a client

    A naming or slogan can be born in seconds... and reappear months later as "internal idea". If you want to prevent your proposals becoming collective heritage without trace, you must firmly secure them before sharing. Here is how to do it practically.

  3. How to protect a text before sending to a client or publisher

    A text sent too early can start circulating without you. A few minutes are enough to secure version and content before sharing. Here is how to do it simply without burdening your work.

  4. How to protect a newsletter written for a brand

    A newsletter is one of easiest assets to reuse, adapt, and "forget where it came from". If you want to prevent your work becoming brand internal material without control, you must firmly secure content and context before and after sending. Here's how to do it simply.

  5. How to protect a logo before approval

    A logo in proposal phase is at its most vulnerable: it circulates, gets commented, sometimes "inspires" parallel solutions. If you want to prevent your variants coming to life without you, you must document them well before approval even happens. Here's how to do it practically.

  6. How to protect a ghostwritten text

    In ghostwriting your name disappears, but your work remains. To prevent the boundary between collaboration and reuse becoming blurry, you need to document well what you wrote and when. Here is a practical method to do it without complicating your life.