I just submitted the question to:
http://www.copyright.gov/help/
I will let you know if and when I get an answer.
Mr. Nearly Normal.
Smoke (Michael A.) Pfeiffer, RPA
Ozark-St. Francis National Forests
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Roderick Sprague
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Can anyone give a reliable and verified date for the first use in the
United States of the copyright symbol (an o inside of a C). It is was not
used and not in the list of symbols in the 1932 edition of the unabridged
Merriam-Websters It was also not used as late as 1953 in a University of
Chicago book; they being the leaders in style with The Chicago Manual of
Style. The earliest use I can find in my library is 1959 which is well
before the two most recent legislative changes in the U.S. law in 1978 and
1989. What effect the use of the symbol earlier in Europe may have on the
U.S. is not known. My evidence thus would suggest between 1953 and 1959 as
the first use.
Rick