Is everything in an animated TV show copyrighted?
<p>let's use <em>Futurama</em> as the example. I understand all the characters are copyrighted. What about certain objects like slurm? or the holophonor?</p>
<p>Are all objects in the whole duration in the episode copyrighted?</p>

<p>Each episode of the show as a whole, and all the individual images in it, are protected by copyright, but the idea of a holophonor, or indeed any idea, is not. The more closely anyone else's drawing of a gadget resembles one from the show, the more likely it would be to be found to infringe copyright. The same is true of a character image. The more distinctive and original the image, and the more closely someone copies it, the more likely a finding of infringement would be.</p>

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