copyright symbol
Encircled letter C
The copyright symbol (©) is a circled letter C indicating that a work is protected by copyright.
It typically appears alongside the copyright holder's name and the year of first publication: © 2024 Acme Corporation.
While once legally required for copyright protection in some jurisdictions, the symbol now serves mainly as a notice to others that rights are claimed.
- creative workOriginal artistic production
- content creatorMakes digital media professionally
- trademarkRegistered commercial identifier
- intellectual propertyLegal rights over inventions
- authorshipOrigin of written work
permission · license · ownership · logotype · legal protection · originality · plagiarism · typography · printed page · book cover · fine print · fair use · derivative works · watermark · music licensing · infringement · publication · publication
- IP SymbolsTM, registered trademark, service mark, registered
- punctuationperiod, comma, colon, apostrophe, semicolon
- symbolsrunes, asterisks, glyph, yin-yang, skull crossbones
- image rightsmodel release, permissions, permission, attribution, commercial use
- Typographical Symbolscomma, period, colon, semicolon, hyphen
- copyrightinfringement, public domain, fair use, DMCA, DMCA takedown