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Unless copyright law has changed since then, the circle c doesn't matter. The way copyright works in the US, the rights to any creative work are automatically r
by nanidin 13y ago
Unless copyright law has changed since then, the circle c doesn't matter. The way copyright works in the US, the rights to any creative work are automatically reserved for the author.
- Macsenour 13y agoI'm not an expert in copyright law by any means. I only recall the story I heard when the man who put the copyright information on the paper released a book a couple of years ago. I'm forgetting his name at the moment.
- mturmon 13y agoYes, this aspect of copyright law has changed since the Sixties. The circled-C symbol (or the equivalent words) were required before 1989: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_copyright_law#Copyright_notices http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_copyright_law#Cop...
- daeken 13y agoThis did in fact change since King's time. IIRC, what you say is true only after the adoption of the Berne convention in 1988.
- danielweber 13y agoThat changed around 1989 with the Berne convention to be the way you describe.