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76 copyright notice with each specific article, but instead only a general notice at the beginning of the issue, or elsewhere.

Finding the notice may not be easy. The U.S. Copyright Office lists ten places where a copyright notice may appear in a book, and an additional three places for periodical issues. Looking for the copyright notice is like being At the Circus. Make a diligent search for the formal notice, but do not make yourself crazy trying to find it.

If you cannot readily locate the formal copyright notice, stamp the article: “.” In fact, you should use the stamp every time your library makes a copy under the section 108 exemption. Here is what you should do:
 * Prepare this notice in large (13-point) type;
 * Put a box around it so it looks like this:

What about chapters from books? Whenever you copy a book chapter, look for the formal notice. It usually appears on the verso of the title page (although as you read above, Copyright Office regulations permit an Easter egg-like hunt). You should include the copyright notice with the copy you are making. Also include the title page from the book, as it indicates where the chapter came from.
 * Send this to a stamp company and ask them to make you a stamp (in fact, make an extra stamp);
 * Purchase a red ink pad and extra red ink;
 * Whenever you make a copy—even when you do include the formal copyright notice—stamp the copy in the upper right hand corner.

If a book consists of a variety of chapters written by different authors, it is a collective work, and each author may have copyright in his or her own chapter. The Copyright Office notes that a single notice applicable to the entire collective work indicates copyright protection for all of the