Copyright

The right of literary property recognized by law, whereby the originator of the work or production is invested for a limited time with the sole and exclusive privilege of multiplying copies of the same and publishing and selling them. Works of authorship include (a) literary works; (b) musical works; (c) dramatic works; (d) dance works; (e) pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works; (f) motion pictures and other audiovisual works; (g) sound recordings. Copyright protection for an original work of authorship does not extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.