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Because the ® symbol is not commonly available on typewriters (or ASCII), it was common to approximate it with the characters (R) (or (r)). [ a ] [ b ] An example of a legal equivalent is the phrase Registered, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office , which may be abbreviated to Reg U.S. Pat & TM Off.
The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, designated by (a circled capital letter "C"), is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound recordings.
This is a guide to spotting violations of the Wikipedia copyright policy that are simple copy-and-pastes from other websites. Please remember to assume good faith when doing the important work of keeping Wikipedia compliant with CC BY-SA and, where co-licensed, GFDL.
Online Service Provider "Safe Harbor": Section 512 ("OCILLA", passed as part of the DMCA in 1998) provides a contingent "safe harbor" for online service providers from secondary liability for their users' copy infringements. US copyright law does not allow works created by animals to be copyrighted. [67] [68] [69]
The sound recording copyright symbol or phonogram symbol, ℗ (letter P in a circle), is the copyright symbol used to provide notice of copyright in a sound recording (phonogram) embodied in a phonorecord (LPs, audiotapes, cassette tapes, compact discs, etc.). [1]
Someone copy-pastes the synopsis from IMDB. It is caught quickly, and rolled back to the revision before the copy-pasting occurred. All subsequent revisions containing the copyvio are reverted and revision deleted. Someone copy-pastes interface text from a permissively-licensed program.
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As a general rule, do not copy text from other sources. Doing so usually constitutes both a copyright violation and plagiarism (exceptions are discussed below). This general rule includes copying material from websites of charity or non-profit organizations, educational, scholarly and news publications, and all sources without a copyright notice.