The Scope of Copyright

Copyright is the law of State that protects the works of authors, artists, composers and other form being used without permission.
Copyright protects creative or artistic works. You should only copy or use a copyrighted work with the copyright owner's permission.
Copyright protects: Works of Chinese citizens, legal entities or other organizations, whether published or not, the term "works" includes works of literature, art, natural science, social science, engineering technology and the like which are expressed in the following forms:
(1) Written works;
(2) Oral works;
(3) Musical, dramatic, drama, choreographic and acrobatic works;
(4) Works of fine art and architecture;
(5) Photographic works;
(6) Cinematographic works and works created by virtue of an analogous method of film production;
(7) Drawings of engineering designs, and product designs; maps, sketches and other graphic works and model works;
(8) Computer software;
(9) Other works as provided for in laws and administrative regulations.

Copyright applies to any medium. This means that you must not reproduce copyright protected work in another medium without permission. This includes, publishing photographs on the internet, making a sound recording of a book, and so on.

Copyright does not protect ideas for a work. However, when an idea is fixed, for example in writing, copyright automatically protects it. This means that you do not have to apply for copyright.

A copyright protected work can have more than one copyright, or another intellectual property right, connected to it. For example, an album of music can have separate copyrights for individual songs, sound recordings, artwork, and so on, whilst, copyright protects the artwork of your logo, but you could also register the logo as a trade mark.