Article: Copyright ? What Can You Protect?

Copyright ? What Can You Protect?

The legal protection known has ?copyright? has come front and center over the past few years with major legal rulings regarding peer-to-peer networks on the Internet. Copyright protection, however, can be a confusing area of the law. This article details what can and cannot be protected by copyright.



Copyright Protection? - Yes



Copyright protects "original works of authorship" in a tangible, fixed form of expression. The material does need to be directly perceptible as long as it can be expressed with the aid of technology. A good example of this is a movie, which requires a projection device of some sort.



Materials that can be copyrighted include:



1. Literary works;



2. Musical works, including any accompanying word...
 

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Copyright ? What Can You Protect?

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