Under the Berne copyright convention almost everything created privately and originally after April 1, 1989 is copyrighted and protected whether it has a notice or not. This policy is recognized by the US, UK and any other country in the World Trade Organization.
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Under the Berne Convention, copyrights for creative works do not have to be asserted or declared, as they are automatically in force at creation: an author need not "register" or "apply for" a copyright in countries adhering to the Berne Convention. As soon as a work is "fixed", that is, written or recorded on some physical medium, its author is automatically entitled to all copyrights in the work, and to any derivative works unless and until the author explicitly disclaims them, or until the copyright expires