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From: bob@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (robert s. richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copyright
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Date: 16 Apr 89 23:24:00 GMT
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In article <13224@louie.udel.EDU> rsine@nswc-wo.arpa (Sine) writes:
>Concerning the copyright discussion, Thad Floryan writes:
>>The EA software in question (the Deluxe Paint series) is clearly copyrighted
>>and protected by US Federal law.  The last page of the DP-II manual states:
>>        "SOFTWARE (c) 1986 ELECTRONIC ARTS"
>Copyright Act of 1976 which became effective January 1, 1978.
>The notice should contain the following three elements:
>1.  The Copyright symbol (the letter C in a circle), or the word "Copyright",
>    or the abbreviation "Copr."; and ...
>Notice that there is no mention of (C) or (c) and one could argue that ...

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the application for copyright form I use
for my music specifies quite clearly that a (C), (c), and in the case
of phonorecords (P), (p) is perfectly acceptable.  This adoption of
the parenthesis around a c has been used since the dawn of the
typewriter.  So PLEASE, don't try to justify an already tricky legal
issue on the basis of typography.

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