News - 24 November 2021 10:06

How to use PitchFeed

PitchMark deters the theft of your concepts, creations, proposals, business plans, music — basically, any ideas that you conceive and want to protect as your own when submitting these ideas for pitches to potential clients. Read more here about how the PitchMark Certificate helps you to do this.

Your idea ownership gains another layer of protection when you opt to appear on PitchFeed. This section of our website showcases innovators who have registered with PitchMark, and opted to display selected details of the ideas they are PitchMarking.

Besides serving as an additional layer of documentation of your ownership over your ideas, PitchFeed is also a showcase for you and your work. Through this section, other PitchMark users and visitors to our website can learn more about you, and your area of expertise.

So, how do you get onto PitchFeed?

When you upload documents for PitchMarking, you will be directed to click on a green tab labelled “Generate New Certificate”. Once you do so, a window pops up asking three questions:

What documents are you PitchMarking?
What company or person is the file for?
What is the pitch for?

Below these questions, you will see an option to hide your answers from PitchFeed. In other words, answering the questions is mandatory, but opting to display your answers in PitchFeed is voluntary.

If you choose not to opt out of PitchFeed, then your answers will be displayed in this section of our website, along with other innovators in the PitchMark community.

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How to use the PitchMark Certificate

All innovators want to benefit from their original ideas. To do so usually involves discussing or pitching the idea with others, in order to get funding, marketing, or feedback.

Unfortunately, this opens up innovators to the risk of idea theft. Copyright protection mechanisms do exist, but they can be costly and cumbersome. Here’s where PitchMark can help.
When innovators register thei

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Photographer sues singer Mariah Angeliq and Urban Outfitters for using a photo without his permission

Los Angeles-based photographer Abdullah Webster filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the singer Mariah Angeliq, Penske Media and Urban Outfitters after his photo appeared without his permission on merchandise, on clothing and in campaign advertisements.
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Rick Astley sues Yung Gravy for using his voice in 'Betty (Get Money)'

English singer-songwriter Rick Astley has filed a lawsuit against rapper Yung Gravy for using his voice without permission in the hit song Betty (Get Money), which raises questions about what can legally be borrowed from older songs, even when certain licenses have been secured.
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Filmmaker Thierry Michel’s “Empire of Silence” accused of plagiarism

Belgian filmmaker Thierry Michel is being alleged of plagiarism in his movie Empire of Silence, but he thinks the motive to ban his film is something else.
Michel is being sued in the Democratic Republic of Congo by documentary makers Gilbert Balufu Mbaye and Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda.
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Spanish beach body campaign used a model’s image without her consent

British model Nyome Nicholas-Williams has accused Spain’s Ministry of Equality of using her photo from Instagram and featuring it in their advertisement without her permission.
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Korean start-up claims LG H&H stole its concept of tattoo printer

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Adidas backs down from trademark dispute with Black Lives Matter

German sportswear company Adidas has withdrawn its opposition against a trademark application filed by the advocacy group Black Lives Matter for a logo featuring three parallel stripes.
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American-Dutch coffee conglomerate Moccona maker sues Australia’s Vittoria over glass jar

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The Late Late Show’s James Corden accused of copying Ricky Gervais’ joke

In response to accusations of copying a joke of comedian Ricky Gervais, James Corden has accepted that he said it but didn’t know it came from Gervais.
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Riot Games has sued Chinese gaming company NetEase for allegedly copying its game Valorant despite requesting changes be made to the game.

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It filed a 162-page lawsuit in various countries - United Ki

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Nigerian court orders Coca-Cola to pay compensation for copyright infringement

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