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You cannot copyright a CD, but you can protect the contents of a CD such as music or photographs. Copyright protects original content, not physical mediums. To own a copyright, it must be your original creation or transferred to you.
If you want to copyright a compact disc (CD), you first need to know that technically you can’t copyright a CD. What you can do is protect the contents of a CD, such as music, photographs or other documents that may exist as digital media on that CD. The CD proper is simply a form of physical medium, and you can’t copyright it any more than you could copyright a piece of paper or the canvas you can paint an image on. While you can’t copyright a CD, you can copyright anything that’s original content that you created and saved or burned to a CD.
A copyright is a form of ownership and protection that exists for a piece of artistic creation or intellectual property. This means that you can copyright an artwork you create, but you cannot copyright a CD or other physical medium. If you’re interested in protecting intellectual property related to the physical creation of CDs, such as a new process by which CDs can be made or written, then you’d want a patent on your technique or hardware, which is an entirely different procedure.
On the other hand, you may simply want to protect data that is on a CD. All you have to do to create a copyright on something is create it in a way that is real and can be perceived by others. This means that if you’ve typed a document, recorded a piece of music, captured an image on a digital camera, or otherwise created a work of art that you’ve then saved to a CD, you’ve already established a copyright for your creation. .
This does not, of course, extend to anything already copyrighted that is owned by someone else. For example, if you take a photo of a painting created by someone else, your copyright protection of that photograph would be limited since the painting itself may be copyrighted by another person. This means that you also can’t copyright a CD or the contents of a CD that belongs to someone else, just like you can’t legally own a house that is owned by someone else. In order for you to own a copyright, it must be either your original creation or a copyright that has been sold or transferred to you.
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