All Rights Reserved

From: Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]attymail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 18:57:02 -0800

The newsgroup misc.legal.moderated had a short discussion about whether the phrase "all rights reserved," when used in a copyright notice, is currently necessary under any country's laws. If not, are there historical reasons for its use?

Here's a copyright notice pulled (at random) from one of Mark Lemley's articles:

Copyright Mark A. Lemley (1995).

Here's one from Dan Burk:

Copyright 1993 by Dan L. Burk. All rights reserved.

Doesn't Dan's look more impressive? But is it? :-)

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Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]attymail.com>
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1206/

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