Are ideas, methods or concepts protected by copyright?

August 24, 2009
Intellectual Property News and Interesting Facts

Copyright protection extends only to expressions, and not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation or mathematical concepts as such.

This principle has been confirmed by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as well as the WIPO Copyright Treaty. – WIPO

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