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Licensing Public domain Public domain false false The lack of notice on the dust jacket can be verified by examining scans at the following two sites: (providing almost the entire jacket except for the lower portion of the front flap) and (providing the entire front flap). The mere identifications of the publisher, author, or jacket designer do not meet these requirements. Neither the year of publication nor a copyright symbol (or any acceptable variant) appear anywhere on the dust jacket.

If just one of these elements is omitted, the work is deemed to be published without notice and is not eligible for copyright protection.

"The name of the copyright owner, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner.".

"The year of first publication for the work" and.

Keep in mind that the pre-1989 requirements for copyright notice were highly formalistic and, other than a few enumerated exceptions, required these three elements: Likewise, a notice appearing in a book is not an acceptable notice for the dust jacket or any material appearing on that dust jacket, even if the book refers to the jacket or material appearing on the jacket. 15:Ī notice of copyright on the dust jacket of a book is not an acceptable notice for the book, because the dust jacket is not permanently attached to the book. Copyright Office Practices: Chapter 2200, § 2207.1(C) at p. However, the first-edition dust jacket did not carry a separate copyright notice. The hardback book itself carried a valid copyright notice, and its contents remain copyrighted.

Second, the dust jacket was first published prior to 1978 without a valid copyright notice and is ineligible for copyright protection anyway, regardless of the design's simplicity.See also: Commons:Threshold of originality § Partial copying or cropping of copyrighted works. The design consists of basic text elements and a simple gradient combination of colors. First, the book cover design is too simple to meet the threshold of originality under US copyright law.English: No permission is required for two reasons: