Copyright is a type of intellectual property. It protects original creative works as soon as it has been fixed into a tangible medium by the author. Copyright covers works such as books, poems, blog posts, movies, plays, paintings, photographs, illustrations, sound recordings, musical compositions, and more.

Copyrighted works are created by a human and have a minimal degree of creativity. They are captured in a sufficiently permanent medium (i.e., when it is written down, recorded, etc.).Copyright protects expression, not ideas, procedures, methods, concepts, principles, or discoveries. Because original works must be made by a human, works created by Artificial Intelligence by definition cannot hold copyright.

View CU's Copyright and Beyond Research Guide for an in depth description of copyright.

Catholic University Intellectual Property Information for Faculty

Catholic University Copyright Policy

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