• Copyright  (title 17, U.S. Code)  is  protection provided by the laws of the United States for "original works of authorship", including:

  • literary

  • dramatic

  • musical

  • architectural

  • cartographic

  • choreographic

  • pantomimic

  • pictorial

  • graphic

  • sculptural

  • audiovisual creations

• This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.

Copyright law grants the owner of  a copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following:

• Make copies of the work 
• ​Prepare works based upon the original (aka derivative works) 
• Distribute copies of the work to the public 
• Perform the work publicly

• Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression

• Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs

• Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices

• Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship