!happy christmas!
hi google. 
here is my question:
there are well known things that an individual/company can
make/produce themselves eg: a book, a film script, theatre play
script...
if the product is very good eg: a book, then a publishing company will
give the author a publishing deal and the author will get the book
published and they will in turn make money
another example is someone who comes up with an idea for a film, they
write a script, they show it to a film company, the film company likes
it and then buys the rights to it,
can you provide a list of items you can create eg: a book, film
script.... that companies will buy the rights to and or license
 
many thanks
ps, i already know some: inventions, books, screenplays, film scripts,
songs, tv shows

dillonthomas-ga,

What an interesting question.  I've always been intrigued by the
enormous scope of human creativity, but I've never stopped to consider
the list of things that someone might create that another might find
worth licensing or otherwise paying for.


Although your question didn't explicitly say so, you seem to be
looking for a list of creations that folks can write down.

Businesses strike big-time licensing deals with the likes of Tiger
Woods, or Paris Hilton, but I don't think you quite had in mind the
types of things that Mr. Woods or Ms. Hilton create as belonging on
your list.  However, please feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken.

The list, below, is largely of my own making (**...I'm making a list,
checking it twice...**) and from my own experience as someone who has
created things himself, as well as enjoyed the results of the
creations of others.

I trust it fully answers your question.  

However, please don't rate this answer if you find you'd like
additional information.  Just post a Request for Clarification, and
I'll be happy to assist you further.



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Ads

Accounting reports

Architectural works

Art

Blogs

Blurbs -- for books, records, CDs, or other promotional copy

Books

Braille documents

Business plans

Cards--greeting cards, birthdays, anniversary

Cheers (for sporting events, etc). 

Codes

Collages

Comics

Computer images

Concepts -- very brief description of a script/show idea

Critical Analysis

Designs

Diaromas

Drawings

Editorials

Encoded/Encrypted works

Engineering diagrams

Essays

Fonts

Formulas

Games

Google Answers (couldn't resist!)

Graffiti

Homework

Horoscopes

Instruction manuals

Interactive scripts (e.g. computer game dialogs)

Jingles

Jokes

Journals

Languages (e.g. create a Klingon or Orc vocabulary)

Legal briefs

Legal materials -- wills, contracts, etc

Legal opinions

Letters/Correspondence

Liberettos

Loglines -- brief description of a script/show idea

Logos

Lyrics

Magazine articles

Maps

Montages

Music

Movie

Musical scores

News items

Paintings

Patents

Photographs

Phrases, e.g. Trademarks, slogans, bumper-stickers, etc.

Plays

Poems

Policy Papers

Premise -- mid-length description of a script idea

Recipes

Research reports

Resumes

Screenplays

Sculpture

Software

Songs

Specialty scores -- such as Labanotation for dance choreography

Speeches

Stories

Synopsis -- Script summary, moderately detailed

Tests

Thesis/Doctorate

Tongue Twisters

Transcripts

Translations

Treatment -- script summary, longer than a synopsis

TV shows

Videos

Web pages

Word and Number Puzzles (crosswords, sudoku, anagrams, word jumbles, etc)




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Of course, each entry on the above list represents fairly broad
categories that can be further sub-divided into an almost unlimited
number of types of creations -- how many different sorts of research
reports are there, one wonders?

However, I think the list provided is a pretty good first take on the
types of things you (presumably) had in mind.

Of course, if I've missed the mark at all -- or even omitted some
items that would be of interest to you -- just let me know, and I'll
be happy to continue working on this for you.

All the best, for the holiday season and the new year.


pafalafa-ga