[dev] [commits] Horde branch master updated. 09649055a36ab8bd2841fc23c1c53526b814f6b2

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Vilius Šumskas <vilius at lnk.lt>:

>> Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 9:12:45 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > Quoting Vilius Šumskas <vilius at lnk.lt>:
>>
>> >> I think someone already pointed out that "(c)" doesn't contain any legal
>> >> value  and  should be replaced with a word "Copyright" (which is already
>> >> there) *or* special symbol "©". Hence you can remove it completely.
>>
>> > That's not true, at least in the U.S.  Although the statue (17 USC
>> > 401(b)(1)) does declare:
>>
>> > "the symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word “Copyright”, or
>> > the abbreviation “Copr.”"
>>
>> > it is widely understood that (c) == ©, especially when dealing with
>> > character sets that don't support the copyright symbol.  Not to
>>
>> True,  but when considering *legal* value the only symbol "in the books"
>> is C in a _circle_.
>>
>> I will try to check this with our company lawyer tomorrow.
>
> Looks like Michael is right. According to our lawyer (C) == ©  
> legally. Even more, a word "Copyright" == © == (C). So it is enough  
> to use any of these. He also mentioned that © is usually used only  
> for graphic representation.

If it's all the same, I'm for consistently using "Copyright".

Jan.

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