Position of the registered sign

[Asmus Freytag]

What about the statutory language about the R in the circle? That was 
the case that Ivan was trying to address.

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On 9/18/2024 1:52 AM, Peter Constable via Unicode wrote:
> The US Code Title 17, section 401 specifies simply
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> 	the symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word “Copyright”, or the abbreviation “Copr.”;
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> https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html
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> I don't think any US court is likely to support a claim that superscripting of the symbol is semantically significant.
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> Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Unicode <unicode-bounces at corp.unicode.org> On Behalf Of Ivan Panchenko via Unicode
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2024 12:15 PM
> To: unicode at corp.unicode.org
> Subject: Re: Position of the registered sign
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> To make it clear: There is a semantic difference because superscripting makes it an annotation. Simply writing “Unicode®” with the circle on the baseline seems wrong to me because it is like writing “UnicodeReg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off.”.
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> Another discrepancy that I noticed concerns the hourglass emojis.
> Originally, there was just one (⌛, U+231B). The reference glyph shows all of the sand below, in some designs, however, the sand is still flowing. Now that we have U+23F3 (⏳, hourglass with flowing sand), it would make sense that U+231B is shown without flowing sand; in some designs, however, this is not the case (perhaps to remain consistent with how it was before) and U+23F3 has a greater proportion of the sand at the top.
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