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David Weinehall <tao@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:33:39AM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
>> On Sunday 08 August 2004 02:19, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> > 
>> > > BTW while I remember cdrecord has a bug with hardcoded iso8859-1
>> > > copyright symbols in it which mean your copyright banner is invalid
>> > > unicode on a UTF-8 locale.
>> > 
>> > Does that also invalidate the copyright?
>> > 
>> 
>> I was under the impression that printing copyright symbols isn't required.
>> You have copyright on what you write unless you explicitly assign it away,
>> which supposedly isn't even possible in some parts of the world, that is,
>> you always retain copyright nomatter what.
>> 
>> <insert standard IANAL(IACOTW) disclaimer>
>
> In *some* countries your copyright claim is strengthened by having
> a "Copyright" and/or "©" clause.  Writing (C) has no legal effect
> however, so you should always write out the full word, like so:
>
> Copyright © 2004 Foo Bar, Baz Inc.

Seems like I didn't make the joke clear enough, though with legalities
you can never be too careful.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se