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The copyright notice
It is advisable for all publications to carry a copyright notice
in one of the following
forms:
Copyright - the symbol c encircled - year of publication - by -
name ofcopyright holder: e.g. Copyright 2007 by The Publishers
Association Ltd
Copyright - the symbol c encircled - name of copyright holder -
year ofpublication: e.g. Copyright The Publishers Association Ltd
2007.
This notice most frequently appears on the reverse of the
title-page in a book or, ifthis is not available for any reason, in
another prominent position.
The copyright notice does not, under normal circumstances,
change at any time andshould continue to be printed with the same
date of first publication anywhere in the
world in all editions of a book as long as it remains in
copyright. Thus a book firstpublished in the USA in one year and in
the UK the next retains the date of the USpublication in the
copyright notice. The only current exception is when a
substantiallyrevised edition of a book is published, in which case
it may be legitimate to amendthe copyright notice to say 'Copyright
c in this revised edition by...'
Copyright term and ownership
Copyright exists in an original work from the moment it is
crated, until 70 years afterthe death of the author.The copyright
notice serves as information regarding the
copyright holder and a warning that copyright exists. It is most
commonly vested inthe author, unless the work is a publication
written by employees of an organisationin the course of their work
or is a compilation of various authors' work; in which caseit is
additionally possible for separate parts of the work to be the
copyright of theindividual authors whilst the publisher retains the
copyright in the compilation volume.
Since 1996 the term of copyright in the UK has been brought into
line with otherstates in the European Union and extended from 50
years to 70 years after the endof the year in which the author
died, or, in the case of copyright held by the companyor
institution, after the end of the year of publication. At the
expiry of this period, anypublisher may freely issue editions of
the works in question without furtherconsultation and without
payment.
Additional safeguards
Copying
Many publishers also print a notice covering illegal
photocopying on the title-verso oftheir publications, thus:
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by
any
Publishers Association, 29B Montague Street, London WC1B 5BW
Tel: +44 (0)207 691 9191Fax: +44 (0)207 691 9199, Email:
[email protected], Website: www.publishers.org.uk
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means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or
otherwise,without the prior permission of the copyright owner.
Binding style
Publishers of paperbacks customarily print on the title-verso of
their books thefollowing additional warning (though for commercial
rather than strictly copyrightreasons):
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by
way of trade orotherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise
circulated without the publisher'sprior consent in any form of
binding or cover other than that in which it is publishedand
without a similar condition including this condition being imposed
on thesubsequent purchaser.
Typography
Copyright in the printed edition of a book exists for 25 years
from the end of the yearof publication in that edition or page
layout. Within that period no book may bereproduced and reprinted
without the payment of a fee to the creator of that
edition(normally the publisher of the edition in question).
Publishers Association, 29B Montague Street, London WC1B 5BW
Tel: +44 (0)207 691 9191Fax: +44 (0)207 691 9199, Email:
[email protected], Website: www.publishers.org.uk
