What Is Not Protected by Copyright? Several categories of material are generally not eligible for federal copyright protection. These include among others: Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression (for example, choreographic works that have not been notated or recorded, or improvisational speeches or performances that have not been written or recorded) Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship (for example: standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources) Circular 1, Revised July 2006 Source: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wwp

A Cup Of Joe For A Joe by Green Beans Coffee Company Karen and Mike, also known to you as Tabberone, have been actively participating in various troop support programs for a number of years. A recent one we have discovered is one run by the Green Beans Coffee Company of Larkspur, California. The Green Beans Coffee Company runs coffee houses in Iraq and Afganistan and at other US military bases around the world. Your donations are made into chits that are randomly given to military personal who frequent these coffee houses. You are then sent an email by Green Beans Coffee telling at what location your donation(s) was distributed. The recipient of your donation is also given the opportunity to email you a thank you, which many do. More information is available at http://www.greenbeanscoffee.com/coj/index.php We rarely link to other sites. It is a really good cause.