Ray Saintonge wrote: > Michael Snow wrote: > >> Requirements like that (the US used to >> require a copyright notice) have been stripped away as an unreasonable >> burden on authors. >> > I don't think that that was the reason. The publishers would be the > ones to make sure that the notice was there anyway. Like abandoning the > requirement that registration was a precondition to copyright > protection, it was a consequence to acceding to international treaties > which demanded that copyright vest automatically in the author. The > author could not lose his rights out of ignorance. > I'm aware of the background behind the change. I don't find any of it inconsistent with saying the requirement was deemed an unreasonable burden on authors, those are simply some of the arguments why it was unreasonable.
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