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The "(C)" is not a myth; it was explicitly listed as an acceptable variant of the copyright symbol by the US Copyright office in both the 1909 and 1976 copyrigh
by chipotle_coyote 7y ago
The "(C)" is not a myth; it was explicitly listed as an acceptable variant of the copyright symbol by the US Copyright office in both the 1909 and 1976 copyright acts, e.g.:
https://www.copyright.gov/history/comp/compendium-one.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/history/comp/compendium-one.pdf
It was used pretty frequently in not only typewritten material but in a lot of computer software before the © symbol was widely available in fonts.
- jkaplowitz 7y agoIt's a myth as applied to current law, since Section 401 of the current Copyright Act does not allow that variant any more. As the previous commenter said, publishing something in the US with an invalid copyright notice still grants US copyright since the US adoption of the Berne Convention in the late 1980s, but it does withhold the extra optional legal benefits which the notice provides.