This applies to books, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, films, radio, television programs, and all types of printed and broadcast material. To safeguard material that is created, the author may decide to copyright his or her work. Copyright is designed primarily to protect an artist, publisher or other owner against any unauthorized copying of his works. Basically, a person's work cannot be reproduced, adapted or used in anyway without the permission of the author of the work. Although the First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press to publish, it limits that freedom when someone other than the author uses published material.
Authors have rights and responsibilities.
The copyright, once it has been authored, immediately becomes the property of the person who created it. Only the author or the people who the author gives permission to can claim a copyright. If two people create a work, then both of them own it and have copyright privileges to it. However, not everything is protected by copyright. Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans familiar symbols or designs mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring mere listings of ingredients or contents.