...typed or drawn on paper, or stored on some medium (now known or later developed) in which the work can be perceived, reproduced or otherwise communicated,...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Once established that a particular work of authorship is entitled to copyright protection, the owner...

...other audiovisual work, are fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the sounds can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The term "phonorecords" includes the material object in which the sounds are first fixed. 17 USC §...

...not to its underlying ideas. I0The Copyright Act, 17 USC § 102 (2005), provides in pertinent part: (a) Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with...include the following categories: (1) literary works . . . (b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea,...

...should be dismissed. The subject matter of copyright is set forth in 17 USC § 102(a). It states that: Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with...Works of authorship include the following categories: (5) pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works See id. Corbis summarizes its Lanham Act claim by stating...

...Discoveries." 7. Copyright Law of 1976, 17 USC Section 101 etseq. Section 102(a) of the act states: "Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with...directly or with the aid of a machine or device." There follows a list of categories of intangible works of authorship eligible for copyright, which...

...much more general idea of fixating. According to the 1976 Copyright Act, the object of copyright law "subsists, in accordance with this title, in original...otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a device."™ Virtually any physical object or event can be the fixation of a work as long as it can...

...Section 102 of Title 17 of the US Code defines a copyright as follows: Copyright protection subsists ... in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. [Included are:] 1. Literary works; 2. musical works, including any accompanying words; 3. dramatic...

...plus 70 years after the author's death.1 The copyright statute of 1 976 refers to copyrighted works as "original works of authorship fixed in any tangible...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device" (17 USC Sec. 102[a]). Works protected under the Copyright Act of 1976 include: (1) literary works,...

...now applies to any work "fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device" (Copyright Law of the United States of America 2003, 2). It does not apply to ideas, facts, titles,...

...phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The term "copies" includes the material object, other than a phonorecord, in which the work is first...