Have you ever had a fun idea for something original and later realized someone else already did it?

[clampfan101]

I swear, every time I get a great idea I find out someone else already did it. I really want to make something original, but almost every idea I get has already been copyrighted or whatever as something I’d never even heard of until checking if my idea was taken. Is there anything I can do?

[provokeesmokee]

Yeah. Then you go "cool" and do your shit anyways.

Do you know how long the human race has been around, creating shit before tech made it possible for anyone to write as much as they want (tech includes things like parchment and the printing press in this context)?

Who cares if someone else somewhere had the same concept? Only you write what you want.

Calm down.

Neil Gaiman even says "ideas come from confluence".

[jennifer_bloom]

I was trying to come up with good author names I could use and I thought Sun Veil would be a great name and then I realized it was already trademarked and even if it was legal for somebody to use it for a different commercial purpose, it would cost thousands if not millions to fight legal battles to win the right to use the name if Sun Veil decides to sue you. This happened with other names I wanted to use too.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

Yeah. I thought of sundae nachos and then I found out some places already do that. I mean, I'm glad my dream, thought, and idea is real but I kind of wanted to do it.