Copyright provides protection for a particular expression of an idea, not the idea itself. Copyright is a type of intellectual property right that grants the creator or the owner of an original work the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, display, or license the work, and to create derivative works based on the work. Copyright protects the form or the manner in which the idea is expressed, such as a book, a song, a painting, or a software code. Copyright does not protect the idea, the concept, the principle, or the discovery behind the work, as they are considered to be in the public domain and can be used by anyone. Discoveries of natural phenomena, new and non-obvious inventions, and ideas expressed in literary works are not protected by copyright, but by other types of intellectual property rights, such as patents, trademarks, or trade secrets. References:

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