Windows includes a variety of special symbols that you can enter as text, even if they don't appear on keyboards. You can get a copyright and registered trademark symbols, which appear as a "C" or "R" ...

You can add a copyright symbol in a document to indicate that a work is protected by copyright law. In Windows, you can press Alt + 0169 on the numeric keyboard. On a Mac, insert the copyright symbol ...

You're almost at the end of drafting your new client's contract when you realize that you used the registration symbol (®) throughout the Microsoft Word document instead of the copyright symbol (©).

Copyright holders have the sole right to distribute and market their ideas, and copying or rewriting someone else's text is almost always a copyright violation ...