On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:30:13AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > > Hans Aberg wrote: > > > The > > > copyright symbol “©” can be included if you wish (and your character set > > > supports it), but it's not necessary. There is no legal significance to > > > using the three-character sequence “(C)”, although it does no harm. > > > > There is nowadays no legal significance of any the above, as > > copyrightable material becomes automatically copyrighted > > without any indication thereof or registration (though local > > legislation may vary). > > I thought I heard that, but can you prove that this is the case > internationally, and/or can you cite your source for this?
Berne convention, general principal 1b. http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/summary_berne.html Easy-to-understand explanation (and incidently, one of my favorite sites): #1 on "10 Big Myths about copyright explained" http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html That said, in some jurisdictions you can get higher damages if you've included a "Copyright 20xx by blah". Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
