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C in a circle means “copyright claimed”.
T in a circle means “trademark”.
R in a circle means “registered”.
How about two new ones?
F in a circle [I propose] means “feel completely free to use this idea” as applies [I understand] in the Halfbakery.
S in a circle [I propose] means
“Share some of any money you make from this idea with a charity of your choice.”
Dream stuff? Probably.
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And of course backwards G-in-a-circle for GPL'ed stuff. |
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BTW, ideas on the halfbakery are not in the public domain in the sense that you could copy their text and claim you wrote it - while the halfbakery doesn't add special protections, it doesn't take any of your rights away, either. (And that includes the copyright for any text you write.) |
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HTML formatting: no, except <br>
happens to work at the end of a line.
You can probably use almost all of iso8859-1, though. |
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The public domain aspect of Halfbakery is that if you have a patentable idea, you have one year from the date it is first published (such as on Halfbakery, for instance) to apply for a U.S. patent. For patent coverage elsewhere in the world, if you have not filed an application before publication, you lose the right to apply when the idea is published. |
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Published *ideas* are not protected in any case, unless you patent them, so I'm not sure why you'd want to use a symbol to mark what other people can do with "your" idea; they can do whatever they want. |
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(Ideas are not generally very valuable, anyway.) |
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I could see using some new psuedo-symbols for copyright licenses, but my objections are similar to those voiced against the idea of inventing a character to represent the word "http". Copyright is actually a much more general concept than any particular license (such as a freeware license, or the GPL, or a shareware license). |
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That all said, a left-facing (backwards) C in a circle has been used to denote "copyleft", or GPL, by some people. |
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Finally, your list omits M in a circle, which denotes the obscure "mask rights" form of intellectual property protection, which applies only to integrated circuit designs. |
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Thanx all. An enlightening exchange. |
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D in a circle: excluded from the public domain from now until the heat-death of the Universe. Also known as the Disneyright. |
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Another symbol: (P) [with a circle] indicates master. Used for audio recordings, especially those produced under compulsory recording license. If I wanted to produce a cover of e.g. the song Memory (by Andrew Lloyd Webber, from the musical CATS, copyright owned by The Really Useful Group, Ltd.), I would send a letter via certified mail to The Really Useful Group Ltd. stating that I wanted a compulsory license. Unless other arrangements were reached, I would pay them eight cents per copy, and the copies would most properly be marked: |
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(C) 1982 The Really Useful Group Ltd. (P) 2002 [me] |
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Yeah you could have a P in a circle so that you know that its been pirated... |
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//Yeah you could have a P in a circle so that you know that its been pirated...// |
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Who said anything about pirating? I was discussing the proper form for copyright notices for legally-produced audio recordings. |
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