Re: updating copyright notice date ranges
On 2012-01-03, at 5:25 PM, Lauren<lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
On 1/3/2012 4:24 PM, Tony Chung wrote:That was what I said: The international
when have you ever seen aSay what? The symbol must be prominent, so it usually comes first.
professional publisher put the copyright symbol BEFORE the word Copyright?
Never.
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symbol and the word are synonymous.
But they are not synonymous. The symbol has greater legal impact than the word. The word indicates copyright, but the symbol indicates that the document is a copy and that the copyright protection complies with the UCC.
They are interchangeable in most copyright situations, but not for international protections. If you want to use multiple declarations of copyright, then use them all with the strongest one first. So, "© Copyright Copr." That's redundant.When the symbol is used, you rarely, if ever, see the word Copyright,
and if you do, it usually comes before the symbol, not after. If this
has changed for legal reasons, then we have centuries of publishing
history to correct.
I think I know why people put the word first now. I think they are using as a label to say this document is copyrighted and then the legal copyright follows in the UCC format. So you are correct that the word would come first, but the reason the word comes first is that the copyright would not comply with the UCC if it was in the order of, symbol, word, date, author.
I think it is silly to use the word if you also use the symbol. The symbol has greater legal weight, so it should be chosen over the word in the copyright declaration.
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RE: updating copyright notice date ranges: From: Dan Goldstein
Re: updating copyright notice date ranges: From: Lauren
Re: updating copyright notice date ranges: From: Tony Chung
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