(C) is common in limited character set copyright messages as a stand-in for the copyright symbol but has no standing in statute law and I believe has never been tested in court. So the preference is just Copyright 2015 Charles Mills, not (C) Copyright 2015 Charles Mills. The (C) does nothing and is what the Copyright Office calls "surplusage" -- meaningless excess verbiage (as is the ever-popular, long-obsolete "all rights reserved").
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Strange comment in PTF. Spotted in /bin/bpxtrace: /* $P2=ME13724 HBB7760, 081005, PD2R: Remove "(C)" from copyright */ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
