The copyright symbol, designated by © (a circled "C"), is the symbol used to provide notice of copyright in works other than sound recordings (which are indicated with the ℗ symbol). The use of the symbol is described in United States copyright law, and, internationally, by the Universal Copyright Convention. The C stands for copyright.
In the United States, the copyright notice consists of three elements::
The notice was once required in order t...
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The copyright symbol, designated by © (a circled "C"), is the symbol used to provide notice of copyright in works other than sound recordings (which are indicated with the ℗ symbol). The use of the symbol is described in United States copyright law, and, internationally, by the Universal Copyright Convention. The C stands for copyright.
In the United States, the copyright notice consists of three elements::
The notice was once required in order to receive copyright protection in the United States, but in countries respecting the Berne convention this is no longer the case. See Copyright notices.
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 approximation has no standing in law.
The character is mapped in Unicode under position U+00A9. On Windows systems, it may be entered by means of Alt codes, by holding the Alt key while typing the numbers 0169 on the...
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