copyright
Patent
The 1976 Copyright Act permits the owner of a copyright to prevent others from reproducing, displaying, performing, or distributing ideas expressed in a fixed medium such as text, film, videotape, sound recording, computer disk, or 3-dimensional form. They protect only the form in which an idea is fixed, not the substance of an idea, which lies in the territory of patent protection. Copyrights do not need to be issued by or registered with a government agency except to be eligible for infringement litigation, in which case they must be registered with the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress The copyright is effective as soon as the work, published or unpublished, is "created in fixed form."
A intellectual property right that protects the manner in which an idea is expressed and not the idea itself.
The exclusive right to the publication, production or sale of the rights to literary, dramatic, musical, artistic works or software.
Records Management
A form of protection provided by law to the creators of original intellectual works, securing their exclusive right to reproduce or publish the works