own your originality.

Originals are a new class of intangible assets—like patents, trademarks, and copyrights—that protect unique ideas, creations, innovations, persona or other intangibles through a private contractual framework instead of government registration. They record ownership, provenance, and enforceable rights using the Originals Community Agreement. Originals community members agree to not unfairly use others’ valid and enforceable claimed original rights without permission.

• Faster & cheaper – No government examination or years of waiting.
• Private & contractual – Rights are enforced by agreement among community members.
• Worldwide reach – A single registration applies globally to all parties who agree.
• Flexible – Covers emerging and rapidly evolving assets like NFTs, AI prompts, datasets, and digital rights in addition to traditional IP.
• Originals find support under the contracts clause of the U.S. Constitution in concert with patents and copyrights under its progress clause and trademarks under its commerce clause.

Almost anything unique that originated from you, including:

• Inventions, processes, and software
• Art, music, and creative works
• Logos, brands, and trade dress
• Trade secrets and know-how
• Digital assets, NFTs, and domain names
• Personal rights (likeness, publicity, privacy, personal data, DNA data unique to you)
• Proprietary datasets and business goodwill

Human beings, natural phenomena, and purely abstract ideas cannot be registered, but the creative ideas, expressions or data relating to them could be registrable.

1. Submit your Original with supporting description, media, or files at originalso.com.
2. Pay the filing fee and agree to the Originals Community Agreement.
3. Receive a unique Original Number (e.g., “O No. 1, 2025, Originalso, LLC”).

Your registration number and content is then published (or content is optionally kept unpublished for confidential information or trade secrets).

IMPORTANT NOTE: Originals relate to legal rights and obligations, so use an attorney to file your Originals whenever possible, including a patent attorney if your Originals include inventions.

You can mark your work with:

• The “O” symbol (O or ᵒ),
• The word “Original,” and
• The registration number, date or registration, and owner.

Example: O No. 1, 2025, Originalso, LLC.

You do, with help from your attorney. Enforcement is private and contractual:

• Originators and owners enforce their rights directly. They encourage their customers, users, and partners to agree to the Originals Community Agreement.
• Violations are treated as breaches of contract under the Originals Community Agreement.
• Disputes can be resolved in court or arbitration worldwide.

Anyone who has agreed to the Originals Community Agreement (by filing, accessing, or using Originals or otherwise agreeing) is bound by it.

If they breach or infringe, they may face:

• Contract damages equal to or greater than statutory IP damages
• Injunctions (orders to stop use)
• Payment of attorneys’ fees and costs

• For patentable and copyrightable subject matter: protection runs for the same period as government IP rights because the U.S. Constitution requires protection be time limited and Originals seek to coexist harmoniously with patents and copyrights.
• For other subject matter (like trade secrets, digital assets, NFTs, goodwill, etc.): protection may be perpetual, as long as the Original remains active through the timely payment of fees and enforceable under law.

Originals are designed to cost only a fraction of government IP costs for worldwide protection.  From the U.S. government only, IP costs range from $250 (trademarks) to $20,000+ (patents).  Originals offer worldwide contractual protection at significantly lower filing and maintenance fees (plus optional update fees).

Yes. Originals are not a replacement for government IP rights. Many creators choose to:

• File government IP protections, and also
• Register their works as Originals for added contractual protection and worldwide recognition by community members.

Yes, directly between members of the community and to the extent they do not conflict with law, equity, public policy or the rights of others, Originals are enforced under contract law among all who agree to the Originals Community Agreement. Courts and arbitrators may:

• Uphold them as contractual property r damages, injunctions, and cross-border enforcement, and
• Treat Originals as valid evidence of provenance and ownership.

The more carefully your Originals claim precisely what is yours while disclaiming what is not legally protectable as yours, the more likely your Originals are to be upheld as enforceable, depending on the specific jurisdiction of enforcement and specific subject matter of your Originals.

Yes. You may file an unpublished Original to establish provenance without public disclosure (similar to a provisional patent or trade secret filing). These receive a published Original registration number and generic title, and their content can be later used in legal proceedings under seal or published if needed.

• Your Original may become inactive.
• Inactive Originals risk loss of rights or entry into the public domain.
• Reactivation is possible by paying outstanding fees, but some rights may be lost forever for certain subject matter, if others relied on its inactivity, or otherwise.

No. Originals are experimental and contract-based. They do not guarantee success in every jurisdiction.

• Do not guarantee court or arbitrator recognition in every jurisdiction,
• Do not replace government IP rights,
• Come with no warranties of validity or commercial success.

We recommend consulting an attorney for specific legal advice.

No. Originals are experimental and contract-based. They do not guarantee success in every jurisdiction.

• Do not guarantee court or arbitrator recognition in every jurisdiction,
• Do not replace government IP rights,
• Come with no warranties of validity or commercial success.

We recommend consulting an attorney for specific legal advice.

Originals are simply claims and are only valid claims if actually first originated by the person or entity making the claim. Others who improve upon or more broadly claim any public domain portions of your idea may obtain rights to the improvements or increases in breadth if they register those before you do. But, for copies, simply register your actual Original now, and update the earlier copied Original with reference to your filing so the public has notice of the interference by the copy.

Start by registering your own Originals, so you can mark them with the O symbol, link to originalso.com, and invite others in your own agreement and terms and conditions to agree to the Originals Community Agreement.

Thank you for helping build the Originals Community.

In short: Originals let you register your claim to ownership of anything unique that originated from you—efficiently, worldwide, and under a community agreement built for the modern era.