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: bibliomixed, bibliomset, 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'>
   |<info>
   |  <title>Example copyright</title>
   |  <copyright>
 5 |    <year>2009</year>
   |    <year>2010</year>
   |    <holder>O'Reilly Media, Inc.</holder>
   |  </copyright>
   |</info>
10 | 
   |<para>…</para>
   | 
   |</article>