Without fixation, there's no way to prove you had the idea first: everybody could say "oh, I thought of that years ago!" and gleefully sue for infringement.
For sufficiently innovative ideas, patent protection is available, which requires searches for prior instances of it.
A Copyright would protect an authors idea.
You cannot copyright an idea, only the expression of it. Printed instructions, for example, could be protected.
No; copyright protects specific expressions of ideas, not the ideas themselves.
Copyright does not protect ideas, only the expression of those ideas.
i have no idea what so ever:)
Ideas cannot be protected by copyright: only the expression of the ideas.
Ideas cannot be protected by copyright; only the expression of the ideas.
Ideas cannot be protected by copyright. If your idea is a new process, you may wish to seek patent protection for it.
For photographs, in most cases, you cant - you must assume that the image carries a copyright. Learn more at www.USPTO.gov
The movie probably has copyright in it. Youtube doesn't allow copyright.
No; ideas are not copyrightable.
Copyright does not protect names, titles, common words/phrases, facts, ideas, discoveries, systems, or methods of operation.It may protect the way these things are expressed (graphics, video, audio, etc) provided they meet the necessary criteria for copyright registration.