On Saturday 04 March 2006 12:32, Segin wrote:
For protection in countries which are signatories to the UCC but NOT the Berne Convention (I don't know of any offhand), the year and name
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Ok, but you still need to put the copyright year/holder's name in a certain order, as your last paragraph said. Just not nessessrary for most countries.
Since accession to the Berne Convention is a requirement for membership of the WTO, parties (not signatories, which is a different thing with little practical meaning) to the UCC who are not parties to the Berne Convention are such a small set now that it is probably not worth worrying about. These days the copyright notice has more value as: a means of giving credit; a means of letting others know who they need to ask if they wish to do something outside the license; and a method to assist distant future users of materials in identifying when a work enters the public domain.