On Fri, 28 Feb 1997 12:23:09 -0600 (CST), you wrote:
quoted 23 lines On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Anika & Johan wrote:>On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Anika & Johan wrote:
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>> No, (c) means the copyright for the item as a whole, i.e. both music and
>> artwork. (p) is followed by the year the songs were published and by whom,
>> which has nothing to do with the actual recording of them.
>
>No, as I said before (c) applies to the art,trade dress, visual stuff and
>(p) applies to the sound recording. Please direct your attention to:
>
>Copyright Act of 1976 As Amended, 17 U.S.C.A. Sections 101-810; 1001-10
>Specifically:
>Section 402 Notice of Copyright: Phonorecords of Sound Recordings
>(a) General Provisions. - Whenever a sound recording protected under this
>title is published in the United States or elsewhere by authority of the
>copyright owner, a notice of copyright as provided by this section may be
>placed on publically distributed phonorecords of the sound recording.
>(b) Form of Notice. - If a notice appears on the phonorecords, it shall
>consist of the following three elements:
> (1) the symbol P (the letter P in a circle);
>[...]
>(c) Position of Notice.- The notice shall be placed on the surface of the
>phonorecord, or on the phonorecord label or container, in such manner and
>location as to give reasonable notice of the claim of copyright.
yeah, the so called (p) and (c) codes are merely conventions at least
in the uk and have very little (if any) legal 'weight'. in the uk the
(p) line is taken to indicate the holder of copyright in the
*recording* (NOT the *composition* ie. publishing) and the date is
date of first release. if a release is licensed to another label for
less than the full period of copyright the (p) line should still be
the original record label.
the (c) line indicates the owner of copyright in the release's
artwork.
but as most labels get them totally wrong they don't mean much...
g.