Somewhat wild story that I just discovered now. So 3 years ago, I wrote a short 17 page script for this screenwriting class I was in. I had to take a course over the summer for this program I was in. The class with some college professors at the University of Michigan. Edit: Just want to clarify that I never attended the school, I was in a program run by the school.

At the end of the class, there was a competition for best script and I ended up winning. They read some parts of my script at the presentation and I got some small little prizes. Never really thought about it much afterwards.

So we were using Celtx to write the scripts so the professor was able to see what we were writing and do edits and leave comments. I'm a very off and on writer and I bounce around using different software so I never opened my Celtx account again because I was using other things.

Well today I happened to try to login forgetting I even have an account. I go to start a project and it says I'm at the free limit. So I look and I see my old script on there.

But I immediately see the edit history was way more recent then when I took that class. The last edit was one year ago. I hadn't touched it since 2021. The cover page didn't have the title and just said "My Script" and had the professors email from the class on it. I started reading it and it was a full edit.

Obviously he didn't go back to that script 2 years later and edit it for fun. He used it some capacity. I know the most likely answer was for a class but still. I would've liked some form of notification that my stuff was getting used like that. I guess I never technically had rights to it.

I just think it's crazy I'm not even an established writer (that's literally my only finished project) and someone would use something I wrote. Thinking about shooting him an email but it's just crazy. Now looking at the fact the it was July of 2021 and July 2023, he might be using it for the same camp I did. But what happened to 2022? And is he going to open it back up and see that I was on it a month from now?