The internationally recognised copyright notice is the copyright symbol ©, followed by the name of the copyright owner and the year of first publication. In many publications, other words are added to this notice. For example: “© Kieran Sting 1992. Except as provided by the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher”.

There is, however, no “standard” or prescribed wording for such a notice. It is generally up to the publisher to determine the form of words used.