Copyrightable
Not Copyrightable
Literary works
Musical works, including any accompanying words
Dramatic works, including any accompanying music
Pantomimes and choreographic works
Pictorial, graphic and sculptural works
Motion pictures and other audiovisual works
Sound recordings
Architectural works
Software
Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression—written, recorded or captured electronically.
Titles, names, short phrases and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents.
Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation or illustration.
Works consisting entirely of information that are natural or self-evident facts, containing no original authorship, such as telephone books, standard calendars, height and weight charts and tape measures and rulers.
Works created by the U.S. Government.
Works for which copyright has expired; works in the public domain.

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