...designs, combined in a way that, considered as a whole, is not original.63 5. No protection is given for any "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation,...described, explained, illustrated or embodied in" a mask work.64 58 See § 5.24 Presidential Proclamation. 59 See§5.07[B] Fixation. 60 17 USC § 902(a)(l)....

...is followed by an equally long listing of the subjects to which copyright may not apply, including "any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery." Conversely, Jefferson's patent law has no such pessimistic list of exclusions. Instead, one must look...

...Dance," New York Times,January n, 1981, sec. 2, 8. 15. Section io2(b) of the Copyright Act states: "In no case does copyright protection for an original...explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work." Since there can be many, if not infinite, expressions of a single idea, the dichotomy between idea...

...motion pictures and other audiovisual works; (7) sound recordings; and (8) architectural works. (b) In no case does copyright protection for an original...explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work. 17 LSC § 103 Subject matter of copyright: Compilations and derivative works (a) The subject matter...

...exceptions to these exclusive rights, and federal law makes it clear that copyright protection does not "extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method...which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied[.]"15 Copyright protection begins upon creation of a Work. The protections offered by federal...

...of expression" has federal copyright status and protection. [Note that copyright protection does not extend to any "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery" (Section 102 of the Copyright Act) , nor does it extend to any work "authored" by the US government.]...

...directly or with the aid of a machine or device." 1 7 USC § 102. Copyright protection, however, does not "extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method...explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work." Id. it is entitled to protection under copyright law. Copyright protection does not extend, however,...

...original authorship such as lists, historical facts, or tables taken from common sources. Moreover, in no case does copyright protection for an original...method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery embodied in such work, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or...

...GPL. Functional Language Section 102(b) of the copyright statute explicitly excludes from protection "any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery." These are known as functional works, and they are not protectable, regardless of whether they are expressed...