What about the statutory language about the R in the circle? That was
the case that Ivan was trying to address.
A./
On 9/18/2024 1:52 AM, Peter Constable via Unicode wrote:
The US Code Title 17, section 401 specifies simply
the symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word “Copyright”, or
the abbreviation “Copr.”;
https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html
I don't think any US court is likely to support a claim that superscripting of
the symbol is semantically significant.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Unicode <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ivan Panchenko
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Sent: Monday, September 16, 2024 12:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Position of the registered sign
To make it clear: There is a semantic difference because superscripting makes it an
annotation. Simply writing “Unicode®” with the circle on the baseline seems wrong
to me because it is like writing “UnicodeReg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off.”.
Another discrepancy that I noticed concerns the hourglass emojis.
Originally, there was just one (⌛, U+231B). The reference glyph shows all of
the sand below, in some designs, however, the sand is still flowing. Now that
we have U+23F3 (⏳, hourglass with flowing sand), it would make sense that
U+231B is shown without flowing sand; in some designs, however, this is not the
case (perhaps to remain consistent with how it was before) and U+23F3 has a
greater proportion of the sand at the top.
