Indie-IP
We offer independent filmmakers an affordable means to protect their creative content online. We can help strategize about ways to safeguard your content prior to your film’s release date to minimize piracy and assist with removing infringing content online once your film has been released. Our services also include managing content identification and monetization on YouTube and other social media platforms.
You’ve spent years in pre-production, writing your film, raising funds, casting, securing locations. After long hours on set and in the edit room it’s finally finished, ready to to share with audiences. You’ve submitted it to festivals, scheduled its release online. You’re excited to see all your hard work pay off when suddenly you discover, much to your dismay, copies of the film have been pirated online. Each day you check, you find more and more copies being “shared” illegally on websites across the globe.
While there is no way to prevent all piracy, there are steps you can take prior to your film’s release and afterward to minimize the theft and assure that audiences will turn to legit options when they want to see your film.
As an independent filmmaker you don’t have the deep pockets Hollywood studios have to fight piracy. Is it possible to fight back and still not break the bank? That’s where Indie-IP steps in to offer an affordable alternative.
Depending on your needs, and your budget, Indie-IP can guide filmmakers in developing a pre-release strategy to mitigate the negative impact of piracy and assist you with safeguarding your film once it has been officially released theatrically or streamed . We can also help you protect and monetize your work across various web platforms including YouTube and social media.
Our goal is to offer affordable options to protect your film from online piracy/content theft so that you are able safeguard your financial returns in an ever-evolving digital environment.
Pre-release anti-piracy strategy development
Searching and removal of infringing content via DMCA notice and takedown*
Management of Content ID protection services on YouTube, Facebook and other sites which offer the option.
Manage monetization of content on various online platforms.
Ellen Seidler is the director of Indie-IP Solutions.
As 35-year broadcast journalism and film veteran, Ellen is experienced in all aspects of film and media production. She’s earned credits as producer, director, cinematographer, and writer for a variety of independent film, documentary, and web-based projects.
Seidler has become an expert in online piracy and offers indie filmmakers expertise on finding infringing content online, removing infringing works using the DMCA notice and takedown procedures and protecting and monetizing content on various online and social media platforms including YouTube and Facebook.
It was in 2010, following the release of “And Then Came Lola” that Seidler her advocacy work against online piracy’ and called out companies that profited (via advertising) from the theft. She found a blog to call attention to online piracy’s link to profit (via advertising revenue) and its negative impact on content creators and has been credited with bringing the issue of ad-sponsored piracy to the fore.
Seidler continues her anti-piracy advocacy at www.voxindindie.org where she explores issues surrounding piracy, copyright and the challenges facing indie artists in an online world.
Seidler is a member of the Advisory Board for the Digital Citizens Alliance and given presentations on piracy and copyright issues at Canadian Music Week, the University of Georgia, Stanford and UC Davis Law schools. Her anti-piracy efforts have been covered by a variety of news outlets including NPR, Fortune Magazine, and Backstage.
Seidler received her B.A. in fine arts from Harvard University, and her M.A. in journalism from U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She makes her home in Vancouver, B.C.