Copyright protects the form of expression, rather than the subject of the item protected.

版权保护的是表达的方式而不是受保护目标的主体。

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When you write a screenplay or any other written work, such as novels, journals, and stories, you form a basic copyright protection the instant you put an idea and text to paper.

当你写剧本或者其它的文字作品时，比如小说、日记、故事，你的构想一旦以文字形式落到纸面上，就已经形成了基本的版权保护。

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Of course, copyright has also been expanded to protect software, which is yet another (albeit rather unique) form of authorship.

当然，版权现在也已扩展为保护软件，软件也是另一种形式的著作权（尽管宁愿是单独的一种形式）。

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"Over the course of the next several days... our content partners will begin sending notices of alleged peer-to-peer copyright infringement to ISPs, and the ISPs will begin forwarding those notices in the form of copyright alerts to consumers, " announced the CCI's executive director Jill Lesser.

BBC: US internet 'six strikes' anti-piracy campaign begins

But Congress has for centuries recognized some form of copyright, the Constitution explicitly authorizes the legislature to do so, and even Salam and Ruffini concede that piracy is common and increasing.

FORBES: In Copyright Enforcement, Ought Implies Can

The fight against online piracy just gained a new weapon in the form of the Copyright Alert System (CAS) aka the " six strikes" policy.

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