[OpenFontLibrary] Public Domain Fonts due to lack of copyright notice

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>This is an oversimplification -- elsewhere in that same  document it's
>noted that registration of copyright without a notice was  also
>sufficient under the 1976 act.  
I pointed that out in my 1st post.
 
>Also, the document continues to say,
>in the event that a work is infringed, if a proper
>notice of  copyright appears on the published copy or copies to
>which a defendant in  a copyright infringement suit had access,
>then no weight shall be given  to such a defendant's interposition
>of a defense based on innocent  infringement in mitigation
>of actual or statutory damages  [...]
>]]

>What this is saying is the same thing I said -- the lack of  a
>copyright notice does not place a work in the public  domain.
>Instead, it limits the damages, because people can claim  that
>they didn't know the work was copyright.
 
You are misunderstanding that. The lack of a copyright notice does indeed  
place a work (published in the United States prior to March 1, 1989) into  the 
public domain.