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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Shareware? Hah!
Message-ID: <16964@think.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 22:55:38 GMT
References: <4815@ihlpg.ATT.COM> <3343@killer.UUCP> <2608@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1771@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <1771@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell) writes:
>In article <2608@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>> 
>> This article (c) 1988 by Richard J. Sexton
>> This article copyrighted by Richard J. Sexton
>> This article Copyrighted (c) 1988 by Richard J. Sexton
>> None of these are valid copyrights.
>
>Inclusion of (c) symbol is satisfactory with a date and name.
>Middle one might not do, but other two certainly are legal copyright
>notices.  Source : US form PA.

I think you may have old information.  I'm pretty sure that last year
"(c)" was declared invalid.  Or, since you are quoting a US form, that
maybe it is allowed in the US, but not internationally (since the US
never signed the appropriate international copyright treaty, our rules
differ).  Internationally, only a "c" in a circle (and a pair of
parentheses is NOT the same thing as a circle) and/or the word
"copyright" can be used, and both of these are also valid in the US.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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