3.2 Copyright
Copyright provides the originator(s) of creative products with exclusive ownership rights to protect their creation, be it literary, artistic or otherwise.
The World Intellectual Property Organization specifies the difference between copyright and patents as follows:
Copyright law and patent law provide different types of protection. Copyright protection extends only to expressions, and not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation or mathematical concepts as such, whereas a patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem.
Copyright protection is formality-free in countries party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (the Berne Convention), which means that protection does not depend on compliance with any formalities such as registration or deposit of copies.
Importantly, international discussions and negotiations over time have:
resulted in the generally accepted principle that computer programs should be protected by copyright, whereas apparatus using computer software or software-related inventions should be protected by patent.
Consequently, if your entrepreneurial idea involves an app or software in some shape or form, while you might not qualify for a patent you may well qualify for some degree of copyright protection.
Making a patent application