Pitches and ideas
Sending your idea to someone? Stamp it first.
Add the exact file you are about to send: a script, a treatment, a game idea, a business plan, a design. It is fingerprinted on your phone or computer, and never uploaded. You get a free receipt. Later, anyone can check the files existed, unchanged, by that day.
Your files never leave your phone or computer. We only receive the set's fingerprint, a code worked out from the files that can't be turned back into them.
Why record it
If something very like it turns up later, the date your version existed matters, and so does showing it is the same file you sent.
A receipt shows your file existed, unchanged, by that day. It doesn't show who had the idea first, so keep your drafts and the message you sent it with.
When they reply, choose "What they sent back" and link it to the pitch you sent. The receipt names the set it follows, and the checker shows the link.
Tips
- Stamp the exact file you are going to send, then send that same file. A copy exported or saved again, even one that looks the same, won't match the receipt.
- Keep the email or message you sent it with, and anything they send back.
Official guidance
What a receipt proves
A receipt proves that these exact files existed, unchanged, by the time shown on the receipt.
What it doesn't prove
- It does not prove that what a file shows or says is true, or that a scene was not staged.
- It does not prove who took the photos or made the files, or where.
- It is not legal advice. Whoever settles a dispute, such as a deposit scheme, a court or a hire company, decides what evidence it accepts.