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From: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: compilation copyright question
Summary: (c) and (C) meaningless
Keywords: poster's rights
Message-ID: <413@hsfmsh.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 89 19:52:12 GMT
References: <5982@leadsv.UUCP> <25545@apple.Apple.COM> <96@artsnet.UUCP>
Reply-To: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Organization: Softcom, Inc., San Francisco CA
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In article <96@artsnet.UUCP> mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham) writes:
>  For those interested in international protections, the U.S.A. is
>party to two major agreements: The International Copyright
>Convention, and the Pan-American Copyright Convention.
>  Protection under the International Copyright Convention is
>indicated by the "circle-C" [ or (c) and (C) for ascii files ].

The last time I talked to a lawyer regarding the (c) and (C) notation I was
told that it was meaningless; it had no legal value whatsoever. Only the
word Copyright or the circle-c had any legal meaning.  Has this changed?

--marc
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