A copyright notice, either as symbol or phrase, informs users of the underlying claim to copyright ownership in a published work.
Copyright law is different from country to country, and a copyright notice is required in about 20 countries for a work to be protected under copyright. Before 1978 all published works in the US had to contain a copyright notice, typically the © symbol followed by the publication date and copyright owner's name, to be protected by copyright. Until 1989 all such published works in the USA required either a copyright notice or a registration filing within five years of publication. This is no longer the case and use of a copyright notice is now optional in the US, since the adoption of the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988.
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