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Is someone duplicating/copying your Etsy material? A copyrighted work must be an original work of authorship which is fixed in a tangible medium of expression. That means the author created it without copying someone else, and it’s down on paper, canvas, saved to a hard drive or in some other tangible format. Copyright is the right of authors to protect and control the use of their works. An expression of an idea is copyrightable, but the idea itself is generally not. Also, in general, there can be no copyright on diagrams, formulas, forms, procedures, and processes or things with a limited number of ways to express. Idea/expression merger doctrine. Let’s work through an example. You created a template for a flyer or an announcement and you want to sell it on Etsy. The flyer template covers an idea, such as a form wedding announcement, a party invitation, or a school bake sale. You have a layout, original text, and graphics that are works of your creative expression and the work may be the subject of a copyright. Content such as the title of the form (Wedding Invitation) or stating its purpose (you are invited to attend), entry space for date information, names, and addresses, is the idea itself and not protectable via copyright. So even though you were the first to come up with the school bake sale flyer you cannot prevent others from making bake sale flyers, provided the other party does not directly copy your original layout, text, and graphics.