Form of notice for visually perceptible copies

The notice for visually perceptible copies should contain all three elements described below. They should appear together or in close proximity on the copies.

    The symbol © (letter C in a circle); the word “Copyright”; or the abbreviation “Copr.”
    The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative work or a compilation incorporating previously published
material, the year date of first publication of the derivative work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative
works are translations or dramatizations; an example of a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted
when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or on
greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or useful articles.
    The name of the copyright owner, an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known
alternative designation of owner.

Example: © 2012 Jane Doe

Once in a while you might see what looks like a date range instead of a single year of first publication, such as:
© Epiphany Law Pty Ltd, 2006-2016. This is appropriate for ‘documents’ such as web pages or software programs
which are constantly being revised and updated incrementally. The ‘start’ year should be the date of the oldest
content still contained in the work, with the ‘end’ year being the last year that the work was revised.

Because the © symbol is not available on typical typewriters or in ASCII, it has long been common to approximate this
symbol with the characters (C) (C in parentheses), a practice that has been accepted by the U.S. Copyright Office under
both the 1909 and 1976 U.S. Copyright Acts

The character is mapped in Unicode as U+00A9 © COPYRIGHT SIGN.[17] Unicode also has U+24B8 Ⓒ CIRCLED LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER C and U+24D2 ⓒ CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER C,[18] which have an appearance similar to the character.