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.


What works are protected?Return to The Corner Poetry Copyright Statment/Information PageHow to secure a copyright?

*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. 

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