ISSN has nothing to do with copyright.  You do not have to pay a copyright
fee unless you want to register your journal for copyright.  You
automatically have copyright, but you ever wanted to take someone to court
due to infringement, you'd need to have a copyright registration on file.
It's up to you.  HOWEVER, you still need to send your journal in for
mandatory deposit.  It's required by the law.  For further info, check this
out: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ62.html#mandatory.  The address for
madatory deposits is:

Library of Congress
Register of Copyrights
attn: 407 Deposits
101 Independence Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20559-6000

Mykie
(used to work in the Copyright Acq. Division at LC)

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Serials Librarian
Morehead State University
Camden-Carroll Library
150 University Dr.
Morehead, KY  40351

my.howard@moreheadstate.edu
ph:606-783-5116
fax:606-783-5037

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Yared, Michael
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 9:56 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Serials with no ISSN

I have a quarterly journal with no ISSN. There is a copyright mention. I
will email the publisher to register their title with
http://www.loc.gov/issn/

Does OCLC checked for any serial, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, annually
for magazines/periodicals with no ISSN number?

One time for another title, I find out that I didn't have to pay a copyright
fee because the magazine did not have an ISSN number. Still correct today?

Thanks
Mike

Mike Yared
Library, Room 8707
Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
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(703) 845-2044 (phone) use email please
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