-What works are NOT protected: Several categories of material are generally not eligible for federal copyright protection. These include among others: -Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression -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 is common property and containing no original authorship (for example: standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources)

And for all copycats out there, here is exactly how much of someone elses work you can take without getting permission:

--Under fair use doctrine of U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports. There are no legal rules permitting use of a specific number of words, a certain number of musical notes, or percentages of a work. Whether a particular use qualifies as fair use depends on all circumstances.

Copycats are despicable people, who do not have a creative bone in their body. They actually think they are running a business by copying other businesses works and putting it on their site. Put pity on copycats… If they are not smart enough to create their own work, then you know they are not smart enough to succeed at anything. Now, you know basic laws of copyright. For more detailed information, please visit: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/

You will be able to get all information you need pertaining to copyright laws and also all contact information you may need for registering your own copyright for your business.

* The book focuses on basics. It strips topic of ‘change’ down to its bare essentials without clouding them in detail. Its philosophy is that while details may be important, they can always come later. But they will be worth nothing if fundamentals are not understood first.

* It doesn’t do our thinking for us. This book encourages us to interpret its lessons for ourselves. In this way, our conclusions are much more powerful and much more likely to stay with us.

* Perhaps most powerful of all, book’s concepts can be easily shared. Readers of ‘Cheese’ become members of an informal ‘club’. They share a new ‘language’ and can readily compare each others’ individual approaches to change using simple cheese and maze analogy.

‘Getting message across’ – to our market, to our customers, to our co-workers, to our staff – is a fundamental part of business. Johnson’s success proves yet again that keeping things simple is an effective way to have more of your audience understand what you are trying to say.

We should never underestimate power of simplicity.