Hello,
I am either looking for experienced PHP/mySQL/AJAX developer to team up for this project, or for someone to invest and then become a business partner for the following project:
Concept: to provide a secure file depository with certification from "legal witness" (public notary).
Purpose: This will be a complementary services to U.S. Copyright registration, which will satisfy most of people's needs for securing their authorship. This service will be less restrictive/faster/cheaper, than official copyright registration. Anyone who will pay a reasonable fee of $10-15, will receive a "copyright certificate", which could be posted on his/her website, or to be included with "product" (a song, postcard, design etc). In case when someone attempts to "steal" author's work, and author will decide to take legal actions against that person, it will be up to court to determine who is the "real" author. From our part we will provide a legal proof that someone,who identified himself as "author" submitted to us this file on certain date. This proof will be crucial in resolving this matter, because most likely the one who will be accused of stealing this artwork won’t have any proof.
While developing this concept I discovered this thing, that if you google the term "copyright certificate " , it will return 134,000,000 results, while searching through government sites search return nothing. I found that there is no legal term such as 'copyright certificate'(a) or "copyright declaration"(b). The legal term used by officials is 'copyright registration'.
This fact allows obtaining a TradeMark (TM) or Servicemark (SM), because the service I described above totally qualifies for it. I also researched U.S. Trademark Database for trademark's availability ( 8 months ago), and found that both terms' ((a) and (b)) service marks and and trademarks are available.
Obtaining (TM) for this service will allow providing "Official Copyright Certificate" or "Official Copyright Declaration" services (notary certified and protected by ‘trademarked’ service).
Since trademark rights are gained by actual use of a mark, rather than by registration, I created a web "prototype" for future functionality and 'certified' half-dozen sites. This prototype could be seen at copyrightcertificate.com
You can see example of certificate at danielphoto.com (at the bottom, click on on certificate to see in full-size).
There are many optional services, that could be offered to customers - from domain registration, security certificates to hosting etc.. Some of the options are listed on current site.
This project will have primary 2 types of services
Both domains (CopyrightCertificate.com , CopyrightDeclaration.com), will be providing identical services: the only difference that one will be a paid service (advertising free), and another one will give away 'free certificate' with a little 'extra', like ‘embedded’ google's adword /yahoo ad.
I estimated that certification of one submission/account will cost around me around $0.003, while one click on adword's ad brings minimum $0.05 .
I think that both sites have a chance to become popular pretty fast, because ‘certified’ sites will be linking back to us for certificate/declaration verification.
Recurring expenses:
- Hosting $90 per year | 20GB of space | 1 TB Traffic (@ DreamHost.com with $30 off coupon (NEW30OFF) (more than enough, since all submitted files will be downloaded once a week to - DVD , certified and archived.)
- SSL Certificate: $35-45 per year
One time expenses:
- DVD burner + blank dvd: $40;
- Public Notary license: $100 / 1 day course;
Someone who wants to partner on this projects, need to have good codiing skills or some $$ to invest.
$1500-1800 will cover development of fully 'automatic' solution, which will generate certificates, (after processing the payment through cc gateway)
$1000 - 1500 to jump up marketing campaign.
SIDE SERVICES
1. domain name registration with certification
2. Search for stolen content like http://www.copyscape.com
It will be useful to get in touch with some lawyer, invite him to host his/her blog on our site, and will answer all legal questions. In exchange he/she will have exclusive right to all our customers.
If this is something you might be interested - let me know.
Regards,
Dmitri
P.S. any opinions about this plan will be greatly appreciated.
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I am either looking for experienced PHP/mySQL/AJAX developer to team up for this project, or for someone to invest and then become a business partner for the following project:
Concept: to provide a secure file depository with certification from "legal witness" (public notary).
Purpose: This will be a complementary services to U.S. Copyright registration, which will satisfy most of people's needs for securing their authorship. This service will be less restrictive/faster/cheaper, than official copyright registration. Anyone who will pay a reasonable fee of $10-15, will receive a "copyright certificate", which could be posted on his/her website, or to be included with "product" (a song, postcard, design etc). In case when someone attempts to "steal" author's work, and author will decide to take legal actions against that person, it will be up to court to determine who is the "real" author. From our part we will provide a legal proof that someone,who identified himself as "author" submitted to us this file on certain date. This proof will be crucial in resolving this matter, because most likely the one who will be accused of stealing this artwork won’t have any proof.
While developing this concept I discovered this thing, that if you google the term "copyright certificate " , it will return 134,000,000 results, while searching through government sites search return nothing. I found that there is no legal term such as 'copyright certificate'(a) or "copyright declaration"(b). The legal term used by officials is 'copyright registration'.
This fact allows obtaining a TradeMark (TM) or Servicemark (SM), because the service I described above totally qualifies for it. I also researched U.S. Trademark Database for trademark's availability ( 8 months ago), and found that both terms' ((a) and (b)) service marks and and trademarks are available.
Obtaining (TM) for this service will allow providing "Official Copyright Certificate" or "Official Copyright Declaration" services (notary certified and protected by ‘trademarked’ service).
Since trademark rights are gained by actual use of a mark, rather than by registration, I created a web "prototype" for future functionality and 'certified' half-dozen sites. This prototype could be seen at copyrightcertificate.com
You can see example of certificate at danielphoto.com (at the bottom, click on on certificate to see in full-size).
There are many optional services, that could be offered to customers - from domain registration, security certificates to hosting etc.. Some of the options are listed on current site.
This project will have primary 2 types of services
Both domains (CopyrightCertificate.com , CopyrightDeclaration.com), will be providing identical services: the only difference that one will be a paid service (advertising free), and another one will give away 'free certificate' with a little 'extra', like ‘embedded’ google's adword /yahoo ad.
I estimated that certification of one submission/account will cost around me around $0.003, while one click on adword's ad brings minimum $0.05 .
I think that both sites have a chance to become popular pretty fast, because ‘certified’ sites will be linking back to us for certificate/declaration verification.
Recurring expenses:
- Hosting $90 per year | 20GB of space | 1 TB Traffic (@ DreamHost.com with $30 off coupon (NEW30OFF) (more than enough, since all submitted files will be downloaded once a week to - DVD , certified and archived.)
- SSL Certificate: $35-45 per year
One time expenses:
- DVD burner + blank dvd: $40;
- Public Notary license: $100 / 1 day course;
Someone who wants to partner on this projects, need to have good codiing skills or some $$ to invest.
$1500-1800 will cover development of fully 'automatic' solution, which will generate certificates, (after processing the payment through cc gateway)
$1000 - 1500 to jump up marketing campaign.
SIDE SERVICES
1. domain name registration with certification
2. Search for stolen content like http://www.copyscape.com
It will be useful to get in touch with some lawyer, invite him to host his/her blog on our site, and will answer all legal questions. In exchange he/she will have exclusive right to all our customers.
If this is something you might be interested - let me know.
Regards,
Dmitri
P.S. any opinions about this plan will be greatly appreciated.
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