Copyrighted works can take on a variety of forms. Literary works, musical works, and dramatic works are included. Most digital media, including email, music, webpages, and graphics are also protected by copyright. Effectively, one should assume that anything someone creates and puts into a tangible form is copyrighted.

There are also many items which cannot be copyrighted. For example, ideas and unrecorded choreographic works cannot be copyrighted. For a list of things that do not fall under copyright law, click here.