Silly copyright?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <90May6.125916edt.1496 at smoke.cs.toronto.edu> lamy at cs.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
>Several implementations of *NIX include copyright notices in the login banner
>	IRIX System V Release 3.2 dixie.csri
>	Copyright (c) 1988 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
>	All Rights Reserved.
>Now this goes against my understanding of copyrights, since I would expect the
>copyright notice to appear in the work for which rights are being claimed.

On the other hand, copyright notices are supposed to be visible near the
front of an extended work, and burying them inside binary code would
probably not qualify.

Note that "(c)" gains nothing and might as well be omitted.