No, it's because the ideas need to be in a fixed form of expression before they can be protected. Otherwise we'd all be stomping around saying "I thought of that first!"
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Copyright falls under the category of Intellectual property.A copyright is considered intangible personal property. See related question link.
If you are encrypting a copyright-protected work, it could arguably be considered a translation, which would need to be authorized by the rightsholder of the original work.
Copyright
Copyright law in general does not protect ideas, but rather it protects the expression of those ideas.
James Boyle has written: 'The public domain' 'A politics of intellectual property' -- subject(s): Copyright, Intellectual property, Political aspects, Political aspects of Copyright, Political aspects of Intellectual property
B. intellectual; copyright
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Copyright, patents, rights in music, and performance rights are all aspects of intellectual property
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Its automatically you're intellectual property the moment you click it. You dont copyright it
Copyright is a type of intellectual property. Other types are trademarks, patents, and trade secrets.