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by snozolli 1216 days ago
© is an established, international symbol. "(c)" is gibberish.

If you put gibberish in the middle of a copyright notice, what does that do? What does "Copyright ><(((('> 2021" mean, legally speaking?

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It doesn't do anything because courts aren't retarded.

Like how I could point a gun at you and say

>Hand over the money or I'll gloobensloobenKILLfleubenYOU

and they wouldn't go "oh no there's a syntax error release this man immediately, it clearly wasn't a robbery"