Copyright

Copyright:
It is a good idea for you to mark your copyright work with the copyright symbol © followed by your name and the date, to warn others against copying it, but it is not legally necessary in the UK.

1. original literary works, e.g. novels, instruction manuals, computer programs, lyrics for songs, articles in newspapers, some types of databases, but not names or titles.
   
   
2. original dramatic works, including works of dance or mime;
   
   
3. original musical works;
   
   
4. original artistic works, e.g. paintings, engravings, photographs, sculptures, collages, works of architecture, technical drawings, diagrams, maps, logos;
   
   
5. published editions of works, i.e. the typographical arrangement of a publication;
   
   
6. sound recordings, which may be recordings on any medium, e.g. tape or compact disc, and may be recordings of other copyright works, e.g. musical or literary;
   
   
7. films, including videos; and
   
   
8. broadcasts.

So the above works are protected by copyright, regardless of the medium in which they exist and this includes the internet. Copyright does not protect ideas. It protects the way the idea is expressed in a piece of work, but it does not protect the idea itself.