What is Not Protected

    Several categories of material are generally not eligible for statutory copyright protection. These include among others:

• Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression. 
  For example: choreographic works that have not been notated or recorded, or improvisational speeches or performances that have not been written or recorded.
  
  

• Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents.
  
  

• Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration.
  
  

• Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship. 
  For example: standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources.

*Note Corner Poetry and its agents are not copyright experts. The information found within this web site has been provided us by a copyright attorney who wishes to remain anonymous. Please do not contact us regarding copyright questions. Please refer your questions to The United States Copyright Office at the link provided above.