Copyright Article: If a Possible Creative Employer that Never Actually Hired You with Paperwork Takes From You Without Giving, Should You Be allowed to, Too? On Resumes???

That's the liability of borrowing with disregard to legal creator and artist and writer likeness and  trademark. Studios and bosses treat borrowing like it only works ONE WAY, in their favor, not YOURS.

In other words, if you give FREE IDEAS (that you don't copyright or trademark) or your likeness in the internet domain (i.e. what people misinterpret as the public domain) without your initial knowledge, consent, or permission. In otherwords, if they treat you as an unofficial employee, give you the royal treatment by misappropriating your likeness and characteristics of it, should you allow yourself to list those same companies as clients in your resume, seeing as they're using YOUR LIKENESS and CREATIVE WORK and IDEAS?

It's a good question to ask about creator owned ideas. How much credit is a creator, animator, and cartoonist ENTITLED to exactly when everyone "borrows" their likeness and ideas they own? They are certainly entitled to a share of the PROFITS of the things they inspire. Yet many creative individuals who fall prey to this (cough cough, Betty Boop, Marvel's Blade), are treated like they're not entitled to take credit for their own likeness and work.

Something should be done. Studios and Publishers need to make things more fair than they do...Economically. Becuase SOMEONES making 10s of millions of $$$ from these projects.

And NO, putting the name "Joe Fagguts Schmo" in your credits listing isn't fair use of my name when it's "Joseph Matthews" or Joseph Alberts. Feels more like a cheap shot than any actual contribution to my career. Feels like I'm being CHEATED.