This is from Access Copyright's "new and improved" (and, as of now, even less informative than before) website.
Access Copyright is an aggressive Canadian copyright collective that, despite its name, effectively restricts and charges for "access" to literary and artistic works.
Believe it or not, Access Copyright is claiming "™" trademark (i.e. monopoly) rights in the ubiquitous and universal "©" symbol.
For once, I must say that words fail me....
All the comes to mind is that old Latin legal adage about "Res Ipsa Loquitur" (The Thing Speaks for Itself).
HK
PS - while the use of the "™" beside the green "©" symbol" on the upper left is ambiguous and questionable in the context, the use in the orange portion by the "©" on the lower right is simply absurd
Access Copyright has promptly undone the "typo" as its communications manager describes it in his comment below. Interestingly, there's a tiny little indecipherable dot remaining.
Was it Freud who said "There are no accidents"?
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