Big Money in Kid’s Properties
What is a Property? For most people the term âPropertyâ generally brings to mind real estate or a belonging. In the world of entertainment or licensing and merchandising, a Property refers to a character or a group of characters. In other words, an Intellectual Property. Well known examples are Mickey Mouse as a single Property or the Teenage Ninja Turtles as a group Property.
Properties can be utilized or arise in a book, a comic book, as an image on a cup or can be the focus of a television program or can be utilized in a television commercial.
Billions of dollars have been generated since Mickey Mouse developed in the wonderful mind of Walt Disney and of course the Disney Corporation is the epitome of intellectual Property rights that all others aspire to.
What does a Property consist of? This is where matters become confusing. If you can imagine in your mind, a pizza pie that has been cut up into slices. Or, better still, take a sheet of paper and draw a pizza or a circle. Then, divide the circle into parts â letâs say sixteenths. Each one of those sixteen pieces represents a different part of the whole and each one of those pieces can be sold off or licensed, as is more the common practice.
The following are some of the more common categories that are licensed off as part of a Property; publishing, music, board games, electronic games, clothing, television, action figures, plush dolls, remote control toys, play sets, cards, greeting cards, educational products and so on.
Obviously, the more popular the Property, the more licensing fees are generated and the wider the range of products. A wonderful example of a Property that spun off from a first book is Harry Potter. I’m sure that when J.K. Rowling was slogging over her first book in a London cafe, she had no idea that Harry would become a world-wide phenomena spawning a huge array of children’s products.
If you have an idea for children that you think kids around the world will crave after, get started. The North American licensing and merchandising market totaled sales of over $60 Billion in 2006 and North American kids spent over $200 Billion in the same year. How to get started you ask? If you have an idea for a character and have limited artistic abilities, hire an illustrator or an art school student to take from your mind and transpose it onto paper. If you enjoy telling stories that kids like, even if your writing abilities are marginal, write them down. The point is – get started. Don’t imagine you are going to be an overnight success. It takes hard work, long hours and a lot of money to become and overnight success, however, if you can develop your idea into something kids enjoy or better still want, you are halfway there.
The Author and Associates
Michael Trigg is CEO of You N Me Productions Corp, a Vancouver Canada entertainment company. You N Me Productions has joint ventured with Media Kitchen I.N.Teractive and Worlds Away Productions Ltd of New York.
Resources
Greanwoldâs World www.greanwold.com is the environment of Greanwold and his Minosaur friends, the newest childrenâs property in the kids international market place.
Michael Trigg
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The group home controversy has now spilled over into neighborhood of Voorhees. Some residents of Lake Villa Estates are very angry about the idea that they will be living near a group home for preteens with behavioral and emotional problems that they are planning to engage in a demonstration on Monday. The home was planned to be opened in four to six weeks for five children with ages between 8 and 12 who have emotional disabilities because of abuse and neglection. New Jersey MENTOR, a for-profit company, selected the Harvard Drive house and two homes in Cherry will without notifying neighbors, but because federal law considers group homes just like regular families, the company didn’t have to alert anyone. The public uproar in Cherry Hill was so fierce that the DCF delayed opening the group homes in the township’s Brookfield and Cherry Hill Estates section until they decided if the children would be welcomed and safe there. Don Gabardi, the neighbor who received the wrong letter, distributed fliers about the group home throughout Lake Villa Estates and at the nearby Edward T. Hamilton Elementary School. “ Nothing was resolved at all,” he said. “ I don’t know what kind of emotional problems these kids have. Another big concern is my property value. Nobody’s going to buy my house with that across the street.” “We hope that all residents will have an opportunity to discuss their issues with New Jersey MENTOR and DCF representatives," the DCF spokeswoman said.
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The actions that they are taking in Lake Villa Estates and the comments they made about the group home, really sickens me. These kids have been abused and neglected which is the reason why they have emotional and behavioral problems, and people are complaining about how their property value is going to go down? No one has any right to stop these kids from starting over a better life because you have no idea what they have been through. There is a hope that these kids can forget their painful memories and become a great person who will help other kids that have been through the same thing. Who gave others the right to judge them, and decide if they can or can’t live in their neighborhood? The residents in Lake Villa Estates are worried about the trouble they might cause, but the truth is, bad things happen everywhere and you can’t predict it. People can’t even walk a mile their shoes and they already made predictions that they are going to be a bad influence on their neighborhood. DCF is trying to do a great deed for kids that don’t have thing except for a dream, but selfishness has people taking wrong actions. They say you can truly see a someone’s personality in front of situations that involve money, and apparently some people care about money more than they care about kids with bruised minds. Well, I can tell you right now that one of these kid’s smile is worth more than anyone’s house property values. Before you judge others, and finding faults and weakness to speak off, you should go out and take a good, long walk around yourself.
is neglection really a word? Proof read your work. You have several errors in your wording. It is a good paper you just need to take your time and proof read it. I love your passion for this cause. But the truth of the matter is they will probably win and the kids may have to be placed somewhere else. Money talks it may be wrong but its true.
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Jeez…this is a question and answer forum dude – not about reading your homework paper!
This was WAY too long to keep my interest!
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Pay no attention to the man with no attention span. I think it’s good, but agree with the first poster you should write it a little better. Paragraphs are your friend.
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it needs some editing.
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