Re: Re: Is (C) a copyright mark?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Karen Coyle wrote:

> Terry Carroll wrote:
>
> >While "Copr." is good enough for the US statute, only C-in-a-circle meets
> >the requirements of the Universal Copyright Convention.
> >
> C-in-a-circle is going to be difficult to render in computer code, much
> of which uses plain old ASCII (of the 7-bit variety). I seem to be able
> to insert a © in this email message, but that depends on what mail
> program I'm using, and I couldn't have done that 15 years ago. It's
> really a question of typography, an odd thing for the law to dictate.

It's a 1955 treaty; I'm betting that the UCC drafters didn't have ASCII in mind at all. C-in-a-Circle was probably preferred to "Copr." or "Copryright" to a avoid preference for English language. Received on Fri Feb 18 2005 - 02:50:00 GMT