Re: Co-pirat'

["Jean Fontaine" <jfontain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

J'ai posé à tout hasard la question au forum alt.usage.english et voici une
première réponse. Il semblerait qu'une circularité trop approximative du
symbole puisse entraîner d'incalculables conséquences juridiques. Soignez
vos courbes de Béziers!

Jean Fontaine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Kirshenbaum" <evan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: Origin of the copyright symbol © ?


> "Jean Fontaine" <jfontain@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Anyone knows when, where and by whom was the copyright symbol © (c
> > in a circle) created or adopted for that purpose? Did it ever get
> > any official, legal, status as a symbol ?
>
> I can't shed much light on when it was created, but it certainly does
> have legal status.  It was one form of a notice mandatory for works
> published up until 1989 and optional now.  See
>
>     http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ03.html
>
> for details.  The official copyright notice consisted of either "©" or
> the word "Copyright" (or, valid in the US, but not in all countries,
> the abbreviation "Copr."), the year, and the name of the owner.
>
> I seem to recall a case back in the 1970s that hinged over whether
> copyright had been lost on a video game because the closest
> approximation they could draw put the "c" in a hexagon or an octagon
> rather than a circle.  Unfortunately, I don't remember which way the
> case was decided.
>
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