(a) The purpose of this chapter is to provide a Tribally sanctioned method to register copyrightable original works and to enforce individual copyright protections for Yurok Tribal members who register their original works of authorship/design. Such works shall include, but not necessarily be limited to: literary works, pictorial works, graphic works, musical works, dramatic works, choreographic works, architectural works. Nothing in this chapter shall allow for, or advocate, the copyrighting of certain specific symbols and basket designs. The Yurok Tribe holds these designs sacred as gifts from the Creator to the Yurok people. However, such designs may appear as part of a larger work of copyrightable material. The Yurok Tribal Council further reserves the right to copyright such designs in the name of the Yurok Tribe.

(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work. [Ord. 15, adopted, 8/9/2006.]