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Subject: Re: Copyrighting Software with (c)
Message-ID: <47063@bbn.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 89 04:32:58 GMT
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Reply-To: pplacewa@antares.bbn.com (Paul W. Placeway)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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kg@elan.elan.com (Ken Greer) writes:
< The token (c) has no legal meaning.  The international copyright symbol
< is a circle-c.  In the U.S. the word "Copyright" works as well.
< Add "All rights reserved" if you want to protect yourself in South
< America.

For all of you ISOers out there, there is hope, though.  ISO 8859-1
(ISO Latin alphabet 1) specifies letter 10/09 (that's 0xa9 or '\251')
is "COPYRIGHT SIGN", so as long as you can persuade them to read it in
Latin 1, "\251 1989 Yourname" _might_ be enough (but I wouldn't be
willing to go to court with just a \251 between me and 

Personally, I'd do something like (in C, of course):

  static char Copyright[] = "Copyright \251 1989 Myname, All Rights Reserved."

(and make sure to spell it right!)

But I'm no lawyer, hence this is non-expert advice...

		-- Paul Placeway <PPlaceway@bbn.com>