Copyright may apply to a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic forms, or "works". Specifics vary by jurisdiction, but these can include poems, theses, fictional characters, plays and other literary works, motion pictures, choreography, musical compositions, sound recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, computer software, radio and television broadcasts, and industrial designs. Graphic designs and industrial designs may have separate or overlapping laws applied to them in some jurisdictions.[35][36]
Copyright does not cover ideas and information themselves,
only the form or manner in which they are expressed.[37] For example, the
copyright to a Mickey Mouse cartoon restricts others from making copies of the
cartoon or creating derivative works based on 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 to not be
judged copies of Disney's.[37] Note additionally that Mickey Mouse is not
copyrighted because characters cannot be copyrighted; rather, Steamboat Willie
is copyrighted and Mickey Mouse, as a character in that copyrighted work, is
afforded protection.
This info in taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
