In addition to placing the appropriate copyright detect on your work and registering the screenplay with the U.S. Copyright Function, it is also wise to register the screenplay or other literary material with the Writers' Guild of America.

Registration with the WGA Gild does not provide a legal remedy in the event your screenplay content is stolen or infringed upon.  Therefore, it should never exist done as an alternative to registering the screenplay with the Copyright Role, just in addition. However, registration with the Writers' Guild of America provides a date certain upon which a claim of authorship by a given author or writer is fabricated to a particular screenplay or other literary material. If a copyright infringement lawsuit is filed, the custodian of records of the Writers Guild of America may exist subpoenaed to evidence at the trial and produce documentation in gild  to bear witness the date that a sure screenplay or other literary holding, as registered, existed.

The almost important use for WGA registration is for literary textile that is not copyrightable. This would include treatments, synopses, outlines and written ideas. This would allow the possessor to at least prove the date of existence of such material, in the event it is used by a third political party without consent or understanding.

Such registration does not protect a championship.

The literary property can be registered electronically through an upload.

The registration fee is $20.00 for non-members; $10.00 for members.  Only Visa/MasterCard is accepted for payment of the filing fee.

Once this documentation is registered and the fee paid, the date and fourth dimension of receipt are recorded.  A receipt is provided to you which serves every bit the official documentation of the registration.

The WGA will have screenplays, treatments, synopses, outlines, written ideas which are specifically intended for radio, television receiver, theatrical, motion pictures, video cassettes/disks and/or interactive media.  Their function will likewise take stage plays, novels and other books, short stories, poems, commercials, lyrics and dramas and various media work such every bit Web series, code and other digital content.

The registration website is https://www.wgawregistry.org/