It's relatively easy to find the policies of the two major trade organizations that handle all the media that gets disseminated throughout American. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) even has a link to a simple and easy-to-understand website outlining what copyright exactly is. What's this website called? Well "What Is Copyright Protection?" of course! The basic premise, according to the website, is:
Copyright is a protection that covers published and unpublished literary, scientific and artistic works, whatever the form of expression, provided such works are fixed in a tangible or material form. This means that if you can see it, hear it and/or touch it - it may be protected. If it is an essay, if it is a play, if it is a song, if it is a funky original dance move, if it is a photograph, HTML coding or a computer graphic that can be set on paper, recorded on tape or saved to a hard drive, it may be protected. Copyright laws grant the creator the exclusive right to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute, perform and display the work publicly. Exclusive means only the creator of such work, not anybody who has access to it and decides to grab it.
You can read more about it via the link below:
What Is Copyright Protection
Also, here's the link to the Piracy and the Law section of the MPAA's website:
MPAA - Piracy and the Law
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