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jonathangraham:
--- Quote from: John C on May 20, 2015, 03:06:34 PM ---Up until a certain point, the only acceptable phrasings are copyright and the circled-c (it's in one of the circulars on the Copyright Office's main page, I believe), so anything else would be invalid.
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"Entire contents copyrighted" appears on a few books I was looking at. Comics Calvalcade #10 1945 for example. I checked the 1945 catalog and didn't see anything but didn't go 23 years further.
--- Quote ---but the courts basically ruled that the details don't always matter.
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de minimis non curat lex
Mark Warner:
That is fairly irrelevant. Even if it is a valid copyright it would have had to have been renewed after 28 years. So you should be checking renewals in 1973.
jonathangraham:
--- Quote from: MarkWarner on May 20, 2015, 11:23:11 PM ---That is fairly irrelevant. Even if it is a valid copyright it would have had to have been renewed after 28 years. So you should be checking renewals in 1973.
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The question I'm getting at is: "Is that is proper notice?" If it isn't then doesn't that make it PD? Does the renewal (which I'm sure is there) mean anything?
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