Re: Wrong year in notice (correction)

Yesterday, 24 Oct 1995, I wrote:
>
> I have all my references at the office, but I believe that the "year
> of first publication" has been interpreted to mean "year of first
> publication in the United States." That means that the UK-published
> work would not amount to a publication as far as US copyright law is
> concerned. I think, then, that a correct notice would include the date
> of first publication in the US, not the UK.

I've got to learn not to trust my vague memories. The text of the sections describing notice (sections 401 and 402) state exactly the opposite of what I stated above. For example, section 401(a) begins:  

     Whenever a work protected under this title is published in the
     United States *or elsewhere* by authority of the copyright
     owner, a notice of copyright as provided by this section may be
     placed on publicly distributed copies from which the work can be
     visually perceived, either directly or with the aid of a machine
     or device.

(my emphasis added.)

This means that the remainder of my message was a nice traipse down the wrong road. I apologize for the misinformation -- the excitement of the Indians winning Game 3 of the World Series must have gotten to me. <g>

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