What is excluded from copyright protection?
• Ideas, concepts, procedures, processes, devices, systems, methods of operation, principles, or discoveries. Therefore, copyright does not give an author the right to preclude others from using any ideas or information that may be revealed in the copyrighted work. • Works of the United States Government. • Words and short phrases (such as names, titles, and slogans). • Listings of ingredients or contents (recipes, for example). • Blank forms (such as time cards, bank checks, address books) which are designed for recording information and do not in themselves convey information). • Works consisting entirely of information that is common property.
