What Is Copyright Notice And Must It Be Displayed?
Copyright notice informs the public of three things– the fact that a work is Copyrighted, the year of first publication of the work, and the owner of the Copyright. Such a notice can be found at the bottom of this page. Display of Copyright notification is no longer necessary to secure a Copyright in the United States. However, notification display is advantageous as it informs the public of an author’s rights to a work. Further, proper notice of Copyright can defeat claims of innocent infringement, where an infringer asserts that he was unaware of any Copyrights to the work at issue.
Related Questions
- Thousands of images on the web don have a copyright notice, watermark, or Digimark®. Since nobody bothered to copy-protect them, why can I just download them for my own art and web site?
- I have read your copyright notice and would like to use your designs interpreted in fabric / wood / appliqu / paint, etc. to sell to clients?
- Can/Should individual committers added copyright statements to the NOTICE or source code files?
