# What does Phillips (1914) tell the writer about copyright, carbon copies and dealing with the studio, and what reasons does he give?

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As 1914 trade advice, Phillips says a photoplay cannot be copyrighted but published literature can 'after a fashion', so adapt only works you wrote and state any reserved story or stage rights in the receipt. He tells the writer to keep a carbon (the only perfect safeguard against loss), type, prepay postage both ways and enclose a return envelope, send no personal letter, expect the Synopsis to be the gate, leave entrances and exits to the director, accept refusals without demanding reasons, and submit to one manufacturer at a time. No legal conclusion is drawn here.

As 1914 trade advice, Phillips says a photoplay cannot be copyrighted but published literature can 'after a fashion', so adapt only works you wrote and state any reserved story or stage rights in the receipt. He tells the writer to keep a carbon (the only perfect safeguard against loss), type, prepay postage both ways and enclose a return envelope, send no personal letter, expect the Synopsis to be the gate, leave entrances and exits to the director, accept refusals without demanding reasons, and submit to one manufacturer at a time. No legal conclusion is drawn here.

Curator qualifications: Copyright and submission etiquette are 1914 trade opinion; no legal conclusion.

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  "citations": [
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      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70937/pg70937.txt",
      "note": "ch. IX"
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```

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- [sourced_fact] As 1914 trade advice, Phillips says a photoplay cannot be copyrighted but published literature can 'after a fashion', so adapt only works you wrote and state any reserved story or stage rights in the receipt. He tells the writer to keep a carbon (the only perfect safeguard against loss), type, prepay postage both ways and enclose a return envelope, send no personal letter, expect the Synopsis to be the gate, leave entrances and exits to the director, accept refusals without demanding reasons, and submit to one manufacturer at a time. No legal conclusion is drawn here. · locator: ch. IX · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70937/pg70937.txt

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