Copyright protects everything and lasts the length of the author's life plus 70 years after that. According to the Copyright website, "Copyright is a form of intellectual property law designed to protect authors of creative work from unauthorized reproduction, copying, and selling. It gives authors the ability to license and transfer their works to other parties so that they may legally reproduce, copy, and sell the product under contractual settings." Infringement of copyright is when someone steals copyrighted work and calls it their own.
If not everyone knows, a couple years ago Limewire went to court for copyright infringement of music. Everyone thought or still thinks that this case was settled among 30 and more music publishers. According to this Technology blog website, "Limewire is still facing a lawsuit brought by 13 record companies, including Atlantic, Elektra, Interscope, Motown, Sony BMG, Virgin, and Warner Brothers, which is set for trial in May." Limewire if you don't know is a place you go to download music for free and it allowed free file sharing among its members that anyone could upload a song from somewhere else then it could be downloaded by anyone, which is why this is copyright infringement. Because of this, the record labels have had $1 million in damage. Limewire is still seeking to prove that the damage claims are wrong and exaggerated. I will post below from Google of what the logo from Limewire looks like in case you didn't know. All the information I retrieved this from was from the Copyright website and the IP and Technology blog.
Limewire Logo image from Google
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