Piccadilly Pirate: aka Paul A Sparrow, has written a catchy song aimed at helping to raise funds for this new ‘Core Innovation Fund’ at ‘BizKit-Tin’, where all the proceeds less a small admin fee will go into this new fund. So, people can help raise funds by donation at bizkit-tin.com, or by purchasing this song from piccadillypirate.com.
Piccadilly Pirate is a character created to help shine a light upon the very serious issue of IP Rape, which is often swept under the carpet and ignored by the mainstream media, consequentially resulting in victims being cast into the abyss unheard and unrecognised, whilst their respective crooks get lauded as creative geniuses.
COMBATING PARASITE CULTURE & COMMERCIAL PIRACY
I.e. The act of Intellectual Property ‘IP RAPE’
(Illegal Possession and Redistribution of Artistic and Proprietary Entities.)
Paul A Sparrow is a Serial Inventor responsible for conceiving some highly successful projects. Sadly his ideas were either plagiarised or blocked from reaching shelves via collusion’s between Retailers and competing Suppliers and Manufacturers.
- 1989 Peter Pan the Adventure Boardgame. This eventually reached the shelves of WHS and Hamleys in 1996. It was Plagiarised by Planet 24 after Paul proposed they jointly turned it into a TV Gameshow. They initially rejected Paul’s proposal, then whilst his back was turned they launched their own derivative as Expedition Robinson in Sweden in 1997. It was renamed SURVIVOR when it launched into the US and UK in 2000-2001 and became the most successful TV Gameshow in history.
In 1999, Planet 24 was sold to Carlton TV for £15 Million, but just prior to the sale they transferred the ‘Survivor’ rights to ‘Castaway Television Productions’, but Castaway was actually incorporated as Planet 24 Services in 1992 and renamed in 1999 to make use of that date, so as to create a false narrative that they created the show independently.
Castaway/Survivor was sold to Banijay Productions in 2017 for 416 Million Euro. - 1992 A concept to pre-sell products to raise the production funding directly from customers, initially called a Product Launch Platform (PLP). The concept was eventually copied by 2001 and later became known as CROWDFUNDING in 2006.
- 1996 A TV Show about Inventors originally pitched as ‘Tycoon’ in 1996, then ‘I Did This’ in 1998, and ‘Brainwaves’ in 1999. This was later plagiarised by the BBC and SONY, where it was handed off to Nippon TV in 2001, again to create detachment and a false narrative that they created it independently, and it went on to become known as DRAGONS DEN in the UK in 2005, and Shark Tank in the US and Canada in 2009, claiming all derivatives are from their original Money Tigers show from 2001.
- 2006 Patented a new concept called ProView, a Mirror System for Levels. This project was branded X-Pro and went on to Win British Invention of the Year in 2009, and yet it has been denied funding and also maliciously blocked from shelves ever since. Even when funding was finally sourced in 2013 manufacturers refused to produce them unless they were given free use of the patents! They remain continually blocked from reaching shop shelves to this day!
Unfortunately many people mistakenly think that modifying someone else’s idea makes it a new idea in its own right, but this is simply not true. Building on someone else’s work without crediting them and gaining consent to use their groundwork is still Plagiarism. Which is Illegal!
These are some of the projects that were plagiarised after being rejected, causing Paul immense financial hardship and consequential losses, which in turn made each subsequent project all that much harder to develop, produce, and launch.
ABOUT PAUL A SPARROW
Paul A Sparrow is a visionary thinker and creator who has dedicated his life to challenging conventional norms and pushing the boundaries of innovation. With BizKit-Tin and u-Reka Club, he aims to inspire a new era of collaboration and empowerment, to reshape the landscape of funding and distribution. His relentless pursuit of progress and justice serves as a beacon of hope for inventors and creators worldwide.
Paul has also experienced Plagiarism with several projects. As can be seen in the video linked below:
SUMMARISED EVIDENCE OF PAST PROJECTS
In Summary: Paul originally conceived Peter Pan the Adventure Boardgame in 1989, but that was plagiarised when he asked ‘Planet 24’ in 1996 to jointly help transition it into a TV Gameshow. They rejected his proposal only to then release their own derivative called ‘Expedition Robinson’ in Sweden in 1997, behind Paul’s back whilst he was still out seeking funding support, and which was renamed ‘Survivor’ when it launched into the UK in 2001, and the show went on to become a huge global hit. Survivor was sold to Banijay in 2017 for 416 Million Euro.
And during the seven years it took to see the boardgame itself come to life, due to constantly falling outside the goalposts for conventional funding support, in 1992 he also conceived, 11 years before anyone else, what went on to become known as ‘Modern-Day Crowdfunding’. In addition to this, he later developed this concept into what would have also been the world’s first Crowdfunding Platform, but due to the relentless lack of funding support, he was unable to bring in the software developers needed to properly introduce and activate the key features within this unique platform, and so had to shelve it for future review. This image was taken from the 1999 website that was reluctantly taken down in 2002 due to the lack of funding and developer support. Variations in this concept have materialised now all over the world, from ArtistShare in 2001 right through to Indiegogo 2007 and KickStarter 2009 to GoFundMe in 2010. But none have any of the key features that were to be included in his own platform. The Term ‘Crowdfunding’ was first coined in 2006 by Micheal Sullivan.
Conceived in 1992 whilst trying to raise funds for the Boardgame. He had the groundbreaking idea to raise funds directly from his Customers via a Newspaper Campaign, only to discover that it was illegal at the time to ‘Forward Trade’ as it was known back then. Meaning that you could not promote a product unless it already existed. You had to deliver within 30 days or send buyers a full refund. He then spent the next two years funded only by his Income Support Giro’s trying to get the rules changed to allow this type of fund-raising to exist, finally succeeding in February of 1995, when he got a new Clause introduced into the British Codes of Advertising and Promotion. A government printed booklet. Shown below.
He also conceived a TV Show about Inventors, originally pitched as ‘Tycoon’ in 1996, then ‘I Did This’ in 1998, and ‘Brainwaves’, also in 1998, which introduced a completely unique never done on TV concept, in which Inventors and Entrepreneurs were invited onto the TV Show to pitch for investment ‘Live’ on TV. Again, after being rejected, the exact same concept also materialised on TV called ‘Dragons Den’, based on their initial version called ‘Money Tigers’ in Japan in 2001. Paul had pitched this to the BBC and SONY in 1998-9, and he even met with the BBC in 1999 to discuss broadcasting his Brainwaves TV Show for March 2000 8pm on BBC2. For the Millennium.
You can see below three Treatments, which include ‘Brainwaves/Dragons Den’, and ‘Pirates Quest/Survivor/Expedition Robinson’, and Pirates Quest was the Boardgame.
Now his latest ‘X-Pro’ project is being maliciously blocked from reaching shop shelves due to tortious interference from Manufacturers, Distributors, and even Retailers, all colluding to cripple his project, to force his patents into the public domain so they can use it for free. As the invention within is so advanced over their existing stock, it would kill them, and it is often said that these levels would make all other levels obsolete.
Paul still cannot qualify for conventional funding support from conventional sources, which is being used by his competitors as an advantage to protect their own products. So, rather than buy or license the innovation from Paul/X-Pro, they prefer to sit back and wait, shutting him out of the market so as to collapse his business and force his patents into the public domain so they can then use the innovation in their own products without having to pay him any royalties for using his innovation.
This is why Paul is aiming for new laws to protect creators, and is pushing for the current 20 year Patent Period to be brought in line with Copyrights, which last until 70 years after the Authors death. The current system actually forces Inventors into a bottleneck where they are held down until collapse, so their innovations can be raped and plundered legally. Sign his petitions on the main page.
NOTE: It is these experiences that led Paul to create and develop two innovative new projects: ‘BizKit-Tin’ and ‘u-Reka Club’, to help tackle these issues once and for all, to give Inventors an independent way forward that puts their interests at the forefront.
Alone and divided we are fish in a barrel, but together, we can change the world and take control our own futures, just by supporting each other!