copyright

Synopsis

Sequence of:
- One or more of:
  - year
- Zero or more of:
  - holder

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

The copyright element holds information about the date(s) and holder(s) of a document copyright. If an extended block of text describing the copyright or other legal status is required, use legalnotice.

The copyright element is confined to meta-information. For copyright statements in running text, see trademark.

Processing expectations

May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Sometimes suppressed.

A displayed copyright notice usually includes the copyright symbol, ©, as generated text and is formatted with commas separating multiple years. Additional generated text, such as the legend “All rights reserved,” may also be generated.

Parents

These elements contain copyright: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info).

Children

The following elements occur in copyright: holder, year.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <info>
      <title>Example copyright</title>
  4   <copyright>
        <year>2009</year>
  6     <year>2010</year>
        <holder>O'Reilly Media, Inc.</holder>
  8   </copyright>
    </info>
 10 
    <para>…</para>
 12 
    </article>


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