Re: Wrong Year in Notice

From: Bruce Hayden <bhayden[_at_]copatlaw.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 08:37:38 -0600

> In fact, imagine you publish something in 1990, and put a proper notice
> on it. Then you publish the identical book in 1995, and put a 1995
> copyright notice on it. Sure, the second notice is invalid, but
> wouldn't the first publication still be protected by its proper notice?

Bad example. The work is presumably a Berne work. As such, it doesn't need a copyright notice, except to negate a defense of innocent infringement. Moving back the original date by a couple of years would put you in the situation discussed elsewhere in this thread.

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Bruce E. Hayden                                bhayden[_at_]acm.org               
Austin, Texas                                  bhayden[_at_]copatlaw.com

Received on Tue Oct 24 1995 - 13:42:57 GMT