Copyright law protects original works of authorship including (but not limited to) literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works. It can include works such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture.
Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation. They are protected by Patent & Trademark laws.
Creators of original works are protected.
Works of sufficient creativity are automatically protected by copyright as soon as they are fixed in a tangible medium.
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Both published and unpublished works can be protected by copyrights, trademarks, and patents. Copyrights protect original works of authorship, trademarks protect symbols or words that identify goods or services, and patents protect inventions or discoveries.
In most countries, works of sufficient creativity are protected as soon as they are fixed in a tangible medium. So as soon as you write the poem, record the song, or take the picture, it's automatically protected.
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No, it is in the public domain.
In the US, songs written between 1923 and 1963 and renewed are protected for 95 years. Works 1964 through 1978 are protected for 95 years. Note that this is for the song itself; recordings from that period are protected under state law.
No; as a corporate work, it will be protected for 95 years.
Poems are protected for the life of the author plus 70 years.
It means you have the exclusive rights to a variety of assets - ranging from pieces of music, published literary works, designs and logos. These are to be protected with copyrights, trademarks and even patents.
A copyright is considered a form of property in ideas. A copyright is also known as an area of law within the field of Intellectual Property. Essentially, a copyright is a grant of property rights that protects original works by authors which are fixed in a tangible medium of expression. It is important to understand patents, copyrights, and trademarks as the granting of certain property rights. The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is responsible for granting copyrights and gets its authority from Title 17 of the U.S. Code. There are many types of works that are protected by copyrights. It is essential to know that a work must be a tangible medium of expression in order to be considered a copyright. The works protected by copyrights are as follows: literary works, dramatic works, musical works, choreographic works, graphic works, sculpture works, motion pictures, sound recordings, and architectural works. For further information on the works protected by copyrights, one can simply look within the United States Code Annotated. Under 17 U.S.C.A.C2A7 102(a) (2002), one can find exactly which works are protected by copyrights. It is important to note that certain things are not covered under the protection of copyrights. These are ideas, processes, procedures, principles, and discoveries. The works not covered by copyright protection can be found in 17 U.S.C.A.C2A7 102(b). There are five fundamental rights which copyrights also protect. These are reproduction, adaptation, publication, performance, and display. These rights are essentially what constitute a copyright. There are also conflicting rights within copyright law, such as the right to fair use for scholarship, research, and news reporting. There are certain term limits of copyrights. For an author, a copyright will exist for a term of the life of the author and 70 years after the author's death. This law is found in 17 U.S.C.A.C2A7 302(a). For works which involve more than one author, a copyright will last until the final surviving author dies and then 70 years after. For anonymous authors, a copyright for a work will last 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever expires first. If a person wants a work to be granted copyright protection, then he or she must make sure that the work meets two fundamental criteria. These two criteria are that the work is an original work of authorship and is within a fixed, tangible medium of expression.