Editing Copyright (section)

=== Eligible works ===
Copyright may apply to a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic forms, or "works". Specifics vary by [[jurisdiction]], but these can include [[poem]]s, [[theses]], [[Copyright Protection for Fictional Characters|fictional characters]], [[drama|plays]] and other [[book|literary works]], [[film|motion pictures]], [[choreography]], [[music]]al compositions, [[sound recording]]s, [[painting]]s, [[drawing]]s, [[sculpture]]s, [[photography|photographs]], [[computer software]], [[radio]] and [[television]] [[Broadcasting|broadcasts]], and [[industrial design]]s. Graphic [[designs]] and industrial designs may have separate or overlapping laws applied to them in some jurisdictions.<ref name="yu-2006">
{{cite book
 | editor-last1 = Yu | editor-first1 = Peter K
 | title = Intellectual property and information wealth: copyright and related rights
 | date = 30 December 2006
| publisher = Praeger
 | location = Westport, Connecticut, US
 | isbn = 978-0-275-98882-1
}}  Praeger is part of the Greenwood Publishing Group.  Hardcover.  Possible alternative ISBN 978-0-275-98883-8.
</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4081 |format=PDF |last=World Intellectual Property Organization |title=Understanding Copyright and Related Rights |year=2016 |publisher=WIPO |access-date=1 December 2017 |page=8 |doi=10.34667/tind.36289 |isbn=9789280528046 }}</ref>

Copyright does not cover ideas and information themselves, only the form or manner in which they are expressed.<ref name="Art and copyright">{{Cite book |title=Art and copyright |pages=48–49 |last=Simon|first=Stokes |isbn=978-1-84113-225-9 |year=2001 |publisher=Hart Publishing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-XBqKIryaQC |via=Google Books }}</ref> For example, the copyright to a [[Mickey Mouse]] cartoon restricts others from making copies of the cartoon or creating [[derivative work]]s based on [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney's]] particular [[anthropomorphic]] mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of other works about anthropomorphic mice in general, so long as they are different enough not to be judged copies of Disney's.<ref name="Art and copyright" />