Thread:Greenhatdigital/@comment-1355084-20140410175826/@comment-24247077-20140424233715

It's not about credit. The problem is that we can't use or be perceived to be using any ideas that are not our own. I'll go back to my original example: say you sent in a script and there was a challenge in it... your original idea. Then say there was a similar challenge -- not identical but similar -- that one of our writers thought up and included in a script that we produce a season or two down the line. Even if the writer hadn't read your script and had what he/she thought was an original idea, the very fact that we accepted your script submission would mean that you could come back and claim that we infringed on your idea. So... rather than take the risk of a lawsuite, we have a blanket policy not to accept any scripts on spec. I'm sorry. I hope it doesn't disuade you from writing, but it's a reality of the business that you will run into as you move forward in your career as a writer.