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Isn't copyright implicit, not requiring any kind of notice to "exist"? I don't understand what those website footers matter at all.

• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > Isn't copyright implicit, not requiring any kind of notice to "exist"? Yes, but notices matter for purposes beyond whether copyright exists, and therefore falsifying, removing, or modifying them also matters. This wasn't about infringement (oddly enough) but about falsified or removed “copyright management information”, specifically the copyright notices. Which seems odd, because if the original notices were valid, then I can't see why actual infringement wasn't alleged. OTOH, if there was no infringement, how could the thing presented been the thing covered by the notices, such that either the removal or falsification claims had substance?