The copyright notice can be anywhere in or on a copy of a work but in practice there are standard places to lessen confusion. I'm not sure how the question relates to the Wiseman film: are you asking whether that final statement is copyrighted, in which case yes. Other legal issues such as libel won't be affected by the copyright. At 06:15 AM 2/6/98 -0500, you wrote: >I have a legal question for anyone out there. Does it matter where the >copyright is placed in a film? Specifically, if the copyright is placed >at the end of the credits does that have any bearing--leagally--on >anything that might come after the credits? I am thinking of something >such as the "brief statement" which occurs at the end of Frederick >Wiseman's _Titicut Follies_, stating that changes have been made at the >MCIB corrections facility since the making of the film. Does it matter at >all in a strict legal sense that Wiseman puts this statement "after" the >film in a sense? > >cheers, >brian ------------------------------------------------------ Lang Thompson http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4 New at Funhouse: Pazz & Jop Ballot, Overlooked Albums of 1997, expanded links. "I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff. And I want in." -- Homer Simpson ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite