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Can I claim a copyright in a new theory I’ve come up with?

By Tom James / May 3, 2026
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Can I claim a copyright in a new theory I’ve come up with?

No. Copyright cannot be claimed in a theory. Theories are ideas, and copyright ownership cannot be claimed in ideas. Copyright protects expression, not ideas. This means that the expression of a theory may be protected by copyright, but the theory itself is not.

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