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Identification : What is it?

In general when a piece of material such as a film (including DVDs and Videos) and/or music is registered with the appropriate country's copyright office, the material at the beginning or end may contain a copyright notice which can be a c inside a circle ©, or the word "copyright", followed by the year(s) of the copyright and the copyright owner's name. However, such notice is not required in nations that have acceded to the Berne Convention. In one way or another, under nearly any copyright regime, a work is generally protected by copyright from the moment of its creation (in the United States the usual phrase is "fixed in a tangible medium of expression") whether it displays a notice or not.

Year(s) of copyright

The year(s) of copyright are listed after the © symbol. If the work has been modified (ie. a new edition) and recopyrighted there will be more than one year listed.

All rights reserved

The phrase, All rights reserved, is a formal notice that all rights granted under existing copyright law are retained by the copyright holder and that legal action may be taken against copyright infringement.

Copyrighting fonts

In the United States, typeface designs are not copyrightable, but may be patentable if novel enough.

In Europe, Germany (in 1981) and the UK (in 1989) have passed laws making typeface designs copyrightable. The UK law is even retroactive, so designs produced before 1989 are also copyrighted, if the copyrights wouldn't have already expired (the German one is not retroactive).

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