Hi! I'm a student filmmaker, and am starting to get into making better films. I'm trying to think of a production studio name, but I can't think of a name for it. How did you come up with your production name? Any advice for a teenage filmmaker?
How to come up with a studio name?
- Thread starter Noah Thomas
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When it comes to protecting your assets, each project has to have it's own LLC, and therefore it's own name. Whether you do the LLC or not, having a bunch of films under one name sets you up for financial wipe out.
You're not Warner Bros., so why should you risk losing your house and cars because of a newly discovered legal blunder you did several films ago? Protect your ass. New name for every project.
Good luck.
You're not Warner Bros., so why should you risk losing your house and cars because of a newly discovered legal blunder you did several films ago? Protect your ass. New name for every project.
Good luck.
If a simple search of a company comes up with no results on a search engine you should easily be able to claim that you came up with the name first. Eg when making Mile Creations there was a Zero-Mile Creations but nothing else remotely similar
http://www.linkedin.com/company/ark-entertainment
not sure if that company holds the copyright for that name or not....
but Arc Entertainment seems to be a mildly successful one, and probably does.
http://www.arc-ent.com/
Ya might wanna research Ark a little
not sure if that company holds the copyright for that name or not....
but Arc Entertainment seems to be a mildly successful one, and probably does.
http://www.arc-ent.com/
Ya might wanna research Ark a little
Even if they don't have copyright on it, the name already exists and it would be risky. Completely original names are always cool 
I looked up Ark on the U.S. Trademark Website, and it says their copyright has been dead for around 12 years.
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You can put the ownership of each film you make under a different LLC to protect yourself, but there's nothing saying that can't have an "agreement" with yourself to put your special logo at the beginning of your films. The logo doesn't automatically mean ownership.
My company will be named after a creek that runs through the location of the production facility. Simple but effective since said creek flows through most of the county and into a major river. I believe in the KISS principle.