The three forms that are specified by law are the circled c, "Copyr.",
or "Copyright", which must then be followed by the date and the name of
the Copyright holder. The symbol is not required if "Copyr." or
"Copyright" is used. There is probably no harm with injecting (c) so
long as Copyright or Copyr. is also present. (Especially for us, since
it is set forth that way in the ASL License.)
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On 1/22/2001 at 10:02 AM Michael Westbay wrote:
Husted-san wrote:
> (c) isn't actually legal. Though, Copyright with the date is just as
> good as the symbol.
Isn't legal? That's an odd one. Is a small, half-pitched katakana "u"
in its place legal? That's what I used to see back when I used
Windows.
Now I see either a "?" or nothing at all due to different font sets on
UNIX.
If a circled "c" is the only allowable gliph, then I guess an image
would
be necessary for the highest international appeal.
(Japanese sites tend to either use "(c)" or "(C)". Does that mean that
none of them are actually being protected by copyright?)
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