COPYRIGHT SIGN
Copyright sign, the circle-C marker for copyright ownership.
U+00A9 · 15.1.0 · Common script
About this character
The copyright symbol (©), encoded as U+00A9 in Unicode, is a typographic marker denoting copyright ownership of a creative or intellectual work. Its legal origin dates to the 1909 United States Copyright Act, which specifically approved the circled "C" as notice of a registered or claimed work. In digital contexts, it appears across HTML, CSS, and other markup languagues as `©` or `©`, and is widely used in writing, publishing, software licensing, and design contracts. While its legal significance varies by jurisdiction—some nations now require no formal notice—the symbol remains a universal, compact indicator of reserved rights. It is a standard punctuation-adjacent glyph in all major operating systems and font sets.
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C2 A900A9© / ©\0000A9\u00a9\u00a9%C2%A9Character
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