Re: All Rights Reserved

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? :-)

At one time, this phrase was necessary for copyright protection in South America, if I remember correctly. I don't remember which treaty was involved (it has been a long time since I looked at it).

Harold Federow
<hfederow[_at_]u.washington.edu> Received on Wed Jan 20 1999 - 00:34:24 GMT