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.
--Michael Snow