> Sun, 2/14/16, Asmus Freytag (t) <[email protected]> wrote: > Subject: Re: Copyleft Symbol > To: [email protected] > Received: Sunday, February 14, 2016, 7:53 PM >> On 2/14/2016 3:36 PM, David Faulks wrote: < text cut> >> If the copyleft (reversed ©) symbol was proposed >> for encoding, with examples (from PDF files) >> showing it being used in a similar way to the >> copyright © symbol, it is likely to be accepted >> for encoding?
> The key issue is whether this usage is "established". > > Showing that it has been used a few times is less > useful than a good estimate of how widely it is > used. > > A./ An estimate is difficult, other than usage being rare. The symbol itself is widely known and here to stay (there was actually a discussion about encoding it back in 2000 on this mailing list). A google search for ‘copyleft symbol’ reveals many results (such as ‘[ubuntu] Using copyleft symbol in text - Ubuntu Forums’), so I would say there is demand for this. The samples I have seem to be from people who want to make a statement via an anti-copyright message, are familiar with the term ‘copyleft’ and the associated symbol, are playful enough to want to use the symbol instead of a more formal message like creative commons (after all, the copyleft symbol has no legal standing),but are willing to go to the extra effort of using a non-standard symbol for a small message that might not even be noticed. David
