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Ideas that have been expressed in a tangible medium can be protected by copyright. Ideas for improving processes can be protected by patent law.

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At this time, fashion is not protected by copyright, but this is under discussion.


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No ideas are not necessarily under copyright law. If you publish it on the web, a book, and/or record it, the copyright is yours but the "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery" you have described is free of any copyright. Some ideas can be protected to the limited extent that they are implemented in a patented invention. Other ideas are protected merely by keeping them secret.


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