For those of you interested...you may want to read this case which provides that a copyright gives no exclusive right to the art disclosed; protection is given only to the expression of the idea -- not the idea itself. MAZER ET AL. v. STEIN ET AL. (03/08/54) SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. No. 228 1954.SCT.40277 347 U.S. 201, 74 S. Ct. 460, 98 L. Ed. 630 decided: March 8, 1954.