How do I promote my idea using a video without the risk of it being copied?
<p>I plan to create a video to promote my idea for an app. Quite similar to how Google's Pokemon Challenge Video turned into Pokemon Go. I would like people to see how my app would look like and how it can be used when it is finished. I guess I am a little paranoid on people actually copying my idea. Do I have to get a copyright for my idea or can I do something else?</p>

<p>Ideas are <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ31.pdf" rel="nofollow">not subject to copyright protection</a>. See <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102" rel="nofollow">17 USC 102</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>In no case does copyright protection for an original work of
  authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of
  operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in
  which it is described,  explained, illustrated, or embodied in such
  work</p>
</blockquote>

<p>If you want protection, keep your ideas to yourself and create a concrete expression in the form of a program, which <em>is</em> protected by copyright.</p>

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