Re: All Rights Reserved

From: Dan L Burk <BURKDANL[_at_]shu.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:28:18 -0500

On 1/17/99, 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? :-)

Maybe. Notice that mine is somewhat older than Mark's -- I adopted the extra language in the late 80's/early 90's based on my understanding at the time of the utility of such language under some Latin American conventions. I confess that I haven't updated the research recently.

Plus, it scares the hell out of law review editors.

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Dan L. Burk
Seton Hall University
burkdanl[_at_]shu.edu

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