All Rights Reserved
As the Copyright Holder We Reserve or Hold All the Rights Provided by Copyright Law For Our Use.“All rights reserved” is a phrase that originated in copyright law as a formal requirement for copyright notice. It indicates that the copyright holder reserves, or holds for their own use, all the rights provided by copyright law.
The origins of the phrase was an outcome of the Buenos Aires Convention of 1910. Article 3 of the Convention granted copyright holder status in all signatory countries to works registered in each and any other signatory country, provided a statement indicating “the reservation of the property right” (emphasis ours) appeared in the work.
The phrase “all rights reserved” is not found in the Treaty, but this phrase quickly became widely adopted and fulfilled the requirement.
However, other international copyright treaties contained no mandate for this type phrase formality. As an example, the Universal Copyright Convention (UCC), which was adopted in 1952, utilized the now famous © symbol to indicate a protected work. This © symbol was introduced in the USA and became law with the enactment of a 1954 amendment to the Copyright Act of 1909.
It was not until the Berne Convention where the formalities were rejected altogether as found in Article 4 of the 1908 revision. Therefore, the authors desiring public protection of their works in countries already signed on to the Berne Convention were not required to use the “all rights reserved” statement.
The origins of the phrase was an outcome of the Buenos Aires Convention of 1910. Article 3 of the Convention granted copyright holder status in all signatory countries to works registered in each and any other signatory country, provided a statement indicating “the reservation of the property right” (emphasis ours) appeared in the work.
The phrase “all rights reserved” is not found in the Treaty, but this phrase quickly became widely adopted and fulfilled the requirement.
However, other international copyright treaties contained no mandate for this type phrase formality. As an example, the Universal Copyright Convention (UCC), which was adopted in 1952, utilized the now famous © symbol to indicate a protected work. This © symbol was introduced in the USA and became law with the enactment of a 1954 amendment to the Copyright Act of 1909.
It was not until the Berne Convention where the formalities were rejected altogether as found in Article 4 of the 1908 revision. Therefore, the authors desiring public protection of their works in countries already signed on to the Berne Convention were not required to use the “all rights reserved” statement.
However, not all Buenos Aires signatories participating in the Berne or the UCC, particularly the United States, which didn’t become a member of the UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) until 1955. So, anyone publishing under the authority of the Buenos Aires Treaty who sought to protect their work in the widest spectrum of countries during 1910 and 1952 should have used both the phrase “all rights reserved” and the copyright symbol.
In our modern era, the requirement to include the statement “all rights reserved” as a notice has for all practical purposes become obsolete on the date of August 23, 2000. This is when Nicaragua joined to become the final member of the said Buenos Aires Convention as well as joined as a signing member to the Berne Convention.
As of said date, each and every country who was already a signing member of the Buenos Aires Convention (being worldwide the only copyright treaty which required the said notice to be used) also became a member of Berne, and of which required protection without any such formal statement of notice of copyright.
Nonetheless, we like it! Hence, as with most of the world, the phrase “all rights reserved” continues to hold popular currency with us. Perhaps more importantly, the phrase still serves and is used widely around the world by artists, writers, content providers and other writing and art work creators as a way to prevent uncertainty as well as clearly spell out the warning that their is a copyright holder who’s content cannot be copied without permission.
In our modern era, the requirement to include the statement “all rights reserved” as a notice has for all practical purposes become obsolete on the date of August 23, 2000. This is when Nicaragua joined to become the final member of the said Buenos Aires Convention as well as joined as a signing member to the Berne Convention.
As of said date, each and every country who was already a signing member of the Buenos Aires Convention (being worldwide the only copyright treaty which required the said notice to be used) also became a member of Berne, and of which required protection without any such formal statement of notice of copyright.
Nonetheless, we like it! Hence, as with most of the world, the phrase “all rights reserved” continues to hold popular currency with us. Perhaps more importantly, the phrase still serves and is used widely around the world by artists, writers, content providers and other writing and art work creators as a way to prevent uncertainty as well as clearly spell out the warning that their is a copyright holder who’s content cannot be copied without permission.