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From: emerrill@tippy.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS keyboard problems
Message-ID: <127500052@tippy>
Date: 22 Sep 89 20:00:00 GMT
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Nf-From: tippy.uucp!emerrill    Sep 22 15:00:00 1989


/* Written 10:07 am  Sep 21, 1989 by dtroup@carroll1 in tippy:apple */
>>Are you 100% sure about this?  The C does not have to be enclosed within
>>a circle.  I remember reading some case a couple years ago about a program
>>that displayed a C in an almost complete hexagon, and that was determined
>>to be sufficient.
>> |  Eric Merrill  tippy!emerrill@newton.physics.purdue.edu |

>        Wrong! (c) is not a Copyright symbol. Copyright must be spelled out in
>        full or a full circle used. You could use (c)Copyright David C.
>        Troup-19889... (I don't know where I saw this, but I remeber that (c)
>        is in no way a legal copyright symbol).

Where did I say that "(c)" is a valid copyright symbol?  To my knowledge,
it never has been.  What I was referring to was a case where the c was e
enclosed in a hexagon except half of one side was blank...  sorta like:

     _______
    /       \
   /         \
   \         /
    \__     /


The court agreed that this was enough of a circle so that the defendent had
"reasonable cause" to believe he was violating the copyright.

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