Copyright protection

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There is considerable scholarly speculation on ancient precursors of copyright. However, no significant copyright protection existed in theory or practice until the development of the printing press, a means of mass dupHcation of creative work. The law did not need a coherent protective stmcture for written and graphic works when the only means of copying them, by hand, was so labor-intensive as to requite an investment potentially far in excess of the worth of the copy. 

The Idea/Expression Dichotomy. Copyright protects the expression of ideas, but not ideas themselves. Thus copyright will not protect any procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied (7). 

Similarly, copyright does not protect research. According to the Supreme Court, copyright protects creativity, not effort, no matter how significant that effort is (4). 

Samuelson, P. (1984), CONTU revisited the case against copyright protection for computer programs in machine readable form , Duke Law Journal, pp. 663-769. 

Publications of the World Health Organization enjoy copyright protection in accordance with the provisions of Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. 

Copyright protection is the easiest and least costly to acquire. However, it also generally provides the least amount of protection. This protection does not protect the ideas, processes, or methods of the intellectual property. It only protects the form, or original work, which is the end result of the ideas, processes or methods. Copyrights can be obtained officially through the U.S. Copyright Office for as little as 30. 

There are seven areas of intellectual property covered by trips (Maskus, 2000 17-23). Copyrights protect original works of authorship. Trademarks are words,... 

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