Re: Copyright Stuff (Add-1)

["PICKETT-HARNER, Molly" <MOP1 -at- NIORDS1 -dot- MORG -dot- EM -dot- CDC -dot- GOV>]

Hal:
The copyright statute states, "In no case does copyright protection for an
original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system
method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the
form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such a
work."

Only an author's EXPRESSION of an idea is protected, not the idea itself.

Some examples:
 -works not fixed in a tangible form;
 -names, short phrases, slogans, book/movie titles, symbols/designs,
ingredient/content lists;
 -common information which contains no original authorship;
 -works produced by the fed government;
 -any <public domain> work [e.g., works published without copyright notice
(possible under the previous statute)or for which copyright has expired].


Molly Pickett-Harner
mop1 -at- niords1 -dot- em -dot- cdc -dot- gov
harner -at- access -dot- mountain -dot- net  [hm]

I have a bizillion copyright bks: these notes are abridged from _Patents,
Copyrights, and Trademarks_ Foster & Shook and _The Copyright Book_ Wm.
Strong.
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After reading about Copyright Law in various almanacs and other references,
I keep coming across the term "copyrightable works," which leads me to
conclude that some written works are not subject to the copyright laws.

Hal