[Request] Translate advance english to basic english

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Several categories of material are generally not eligible for federal copyright protection. These include among others:
  • Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression (for example, choreographic works that have not been notated or recorded, or improvisational speeches or performances that have not been written or recorded)
  • Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents
  • Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration
  • Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship (for example: standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources)
Can someone translate it to a simple form of english?
 
Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression (for example, choreographic works that have not been notated or recorded, or improvisational speeches or performances that have not been written or recorded)

You cannot copyright an idea that you have not created or patented.

Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents

This is just saying that you cannot copyright a common name such as "Dave, Matt, Tom" but if you create a new name then you can copyright it.

You cannot copyright a sentence or slogan, an example would be Mc Donalds solgan: "Im loving it" these 3 words could not be under copyright.

You cannot change existing copyrighted music/recipes by a small ammount and then copyright it.

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I can't really find a simpler way to explain the second two, basicaly you can't copyright common knowlege or common ideas and concepts.
 
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