Copyright does not protect ideas, concepts, systems, or methods of doing something. You may express your ideas in writing or drawings and claim copyright in your description, but be aware that copyright will not protect the idea itself as revealed in your written or artistic work.
Copyright does not protect ideas or information, only the original expression of ideas or information. Copyright does not prevent someone else from independently producing the same work. Copyright does not usually protect names and titles, as these are not considered original enough.
Copyright protects the way in which something is expressed. It does not protect ideas. For example, if you wrote a new computer program to perform a function, the software code would be protected by copyright. Someone else could then write their own computer program to perform the same function.
Copyright does not protect inventions, brands, utilitarian objects or circuit layouts which are protected by other areas of intellectual property (IP) – patent, trademark, designs, plant breeder's rights and circuit layouts respectively. IP Australia is the best place to go for information on these areas of law.
Copyright does not protect ideas and styles. For copyright protection to exist you must express your idea in some physical, material or digital form. What does copyright mean? Copyright means that only you have rights to do certain things with your work.
General Scope of Copyright.
The five fundamental rights that the bill gives to copyright owners-the exclusive rights of reproduction, adaptation, publication, performance, and display-are stated generally in section 106.
Copyright is a broad category that protects creators of: Literary, dramatic, artistic, musical works (e.g. book, letter, e-mail, blog, computer program, compilation, government publication, script, play, film, painting, sculpture, photograph, map, architectural drawing, sheet music, compositions, music video, etc.)
Titles, names, short phrases, slogans
Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans are not protected by copyright law. Similarly, it is clear that copyright law does not protect simple product lettering or coloring, or the mere listing of product ingredients or contents.
The main exceptions to copyright infringement are as follows: fair dealing (eg if the use is for criticism, non-commercial research or private study, caricature or parody) educational (eg if a protected work is used for the purposes of non-commercial instruction and examination)
slogans, and other short phrases or expressions cannot be copyrighted.” [1] These rules are premised on two tenets of copyright law. First, copyright will not protect an idea. Phrases conveying an idea are typically expressed in a limited number of ways and, therefore, are not subject to copyright protection.
Actors cannot be protected under copyright.
Copyright law does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation. A copyright also does not protect song titles, band names, or slogans. This means an artist cannot copyright their band name or their song titles.
Recipes can be protected under copyright law if they are accompanied by “substantial literary expression.” This expression can be an explanation or detailed directions, which is likely why food and recipe bloggers often share stories and personal anecdotes alongside a recipe's ingredients.
Copyright law does not protect the titles of books or movies, nor does it protect short phrases such as, “Make my day.” Copyright protection also doesn't cover facts, ideas, or theories. These things are free for all to use without authorization.
In general, under US copyright laws, information, facts and data are not subject to copyright protection - the exception to this could be when data is in the form of software.
Copyright protects two categories of subject matter: 'works', being literary works (textual material), dramatic works, musical works and artistic works; and 'subject matter other than works', being sound recordings, films, television and sound broadcasts and published editions.
Copyright owners of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works have the exclusive right to: reproduce the work (eg to scan, upload/download, photocopy, record, film) publish the work (ie make it public for the first time) communicate the work to the public (eg to make available on the internet, email, broadcast)
Copyrights are generally owned by the people who create the works of expression, with some important exceptions: If a work is created by an employee in the course of his or her employment, the employer owns the copyright.
There is no registration system for copyright under Australian law. Certain forms of expression, such as text, images and music, are automatically covered by copyright under the Copyright Act. To achieve its objectives, the copyright system treats different uses of content in different ways.
Like anything else that can be copyrighted, artwork is protected by copyright when the art is affixed in a tangible form (such as a painting, sculpture, or drawing). You have to register your copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office if you want to be able to take infringers to court and be awarded damages.
Copyright Restrictions
It states that no copyrighted work may be copied, published, disseminated, displayed, performed, or played without permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with fair use or licensed agreement.