Re: All Rights Reserved

From: Stephen Fishman <sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:29:40 -0800 (PST)

On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]attymail.com> wrote:
>
> 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? :-)

All rights reserved used to be necessary for copyright protection in Honduras and Bolivia. It is no longer needed since they both joined the Berne Convention in 1990.

Many publishers still use it out of habit.

Stephen Fishman
<sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com>

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