Actually it depends even on the country you're in, here in Australia
everything produced is copyright automatically, even without the (C)
symbol - of course you do need to be able to prove you own the item....

Vahur Krouverk wrote:
> 
> Daren Scot Wilson wrote:
> >
> > BTW, don't anyone be put off by the (C) in that "Hills" script - i permit
> > everyone to make full use of the ideas and code in that file.   My (C)
> > applies to the whole body of work for the Floating Skyscrapers povray script;
> > i just "rubber-stamp" all my scripts that way.   You may have whatever fun
> > you like with that one file.
> >
> Well, with regard to the copyright here is excerpt from one article:
> ===============8<===========================================
> The correct form for a notice is:
>    "Copyright <dates> by <author/owner>"
> You can use C in a circle instead of "Copyright" but "(C)"
> has never been given legal force.  The phrase "All Rights
> Reserved" used to be required in some nations but is now
> not needed.
> ===============8<===========================================
> although many texts contain (c) or (C)...

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