Ciao Giacomo, Il giorno Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:46:35 +0100 "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org> ha scritto: > David Paleino wrote: > > > Not really. AFAIK "(C)" has no legal validity, while "Copyright" and "©" > > have. > > I really don't agree: > "(C)" is a symbol, as "ff", "fl", "..." are each one single symbol! > The same with "THIS IS ITALIC". IANAL, but I've read what I stated somewhere on the net. After some googling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_symbol Citation: "Because the © symbol has long been unavailable on typewriters and ASCII-based computer systems, it has been common to approximate this symbol with the characters (c). However, this is not legally recognized as a symbol for copyright." I know Wikipedia is not a "secure source" for information, but Lars Wirzenius posted a far more reliable link in this thread: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.html > Many of you are too young to have learned the writing convention on > typewriter, but probably the judges know this convention a lot better > as us. > In future, with a wider adoption of Unicode and better > typewriter/vi/emacs/word-processors, "(C)" could become a > three symbols sequence, in other words: one ASCII character is > one symbol, but we are not in such world. Currently, as stated in the links above, "(C)" is not a legal symbol. > Anyway my reply and most of this thread is a demonstration of: > Color of the bikeshed theory ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_the_bikeshed ) Lol, true :) Ciao, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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