Copyright & Fair Use

Certain types of works are not eligible for copyright protection. These include:

• Ideas, theories, concepts
• Procedures, methods, processes
• Titles, names, short phrases and slogans, familiar symbols or designs, variations of type styles, lists of ingredients
• Facts
• Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship (e.g. standard calendars, height and weight charts, tables taken from public documents)
• Works of the U.S. government

These works are in the public domain, meaning they are freely available for use without copyright restrictions.