On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:22:17AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jan Hauke Rahm <info@jhr-online.de> writes: > > Practically, I do see problems in the US, too: do you think a US court > > would grant you copyright if the only statement in a file were "(C) > > 2009, cate"? > > Explicit copyright notice is not required in any country that's a > signatory to Berne. The only difference the copyright notice makes in > the US is in what statutory damages you can claim. > > So yes, this wouldn't pose any challenge to copyright in the US. You > would, of course, have to prove that you're the copyright holder, but > you'd have to do that no matter what the copyright statement said. Okay, I stand corrected. A real name in a copyright statement is required if you actually care about your copyright. By using your real name as known to the government it's pretty easy to prove being the same person while a nick name isn't. Hauke
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