Ted Husted wrote:
> 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.)
>
IANAL, but the (c) version has been used in all of the ASCII based source files
I have ever seen. With Ted's comments above, I'm fine with switching to "(c)"
in the HTML versions as well, since we do have the word "Copyright" present.
Craig
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> On 1/22/2001 at 10:02 AM Michael Westbay wrote:
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> 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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> Michael Westbay
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