Christopher Smith wrote:
I have seen many times companies putting out reprints of century or centuries-old manuscripts with no changes except for the strongly-worded copyright notice threatening to torture your first-born if you so much as think about making a copy. There has to be a law against fraudulent copyright notices, isn't there?
There is, in the United States. 17 USC § 506 c provides
(c) * Fraudulent Copyright Notice.— * Any person who, with fraudulent intent, places on any article a notice of copyright or words of the same purport that such person knows to be false, or who, with fraudulent intent, publicly distributes or imports for public distribution any article bearing such notice or words that such person knows to be false, shall be fined not more than $2,500.
When I did a cursory review of case law some years back, I could find no evidence that it had ever been used.
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