# Insert Copyright symbol

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-copyright-symbol/297493
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 1, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-copyright-symbol/297493 "2024-03-01T16:36:09Z")
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### Author: ![Firepup650](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/firepup650/32/465200_2.png) [@Firepup650](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Firepup650)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-copyright-symbol/297493/8 "2024-03-01T19:35:36Z")

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> [@Jagster](#):
>
> If I overdrive that earlier disabling (c) doing something like this:
> 
> ```plaintext
> <script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8">
> document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
> document.body.addEventListener('input', function(e) {
> if (e.target.tagName === 'TEXTAREA' || e.target.tagName === 'INPUT') {
> e.target.value = e.target.value.replace(/\(c\)/gi, '©');
> }
> });
> });
> </script>
> 
> ```
> 
> Will I start harmageddon, or at least break my forum?

Might I ask, if you want to add it back, why not use:

> [@Watched Words Reference Guide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-words-reference-guide/241735/1):
>
> ### Replace
> 
> Replaces words in posts with other words. Cannot be used to replace words with links.
> 
> If no Replacement word is selected when adding a word to this action, the word will be removed from the post, but no word replacement will take it’s place - the word will disappear from the post, and the post will be allowed to be submitted _(Not Recommended)_.
> 
> ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/5/7/c578ea44543286a83b6607123e50b154ed55d83c.png)

Seems safer to me 🙃

As for

> [@Jagster](#):
>
> why that was disabled back then

See:

> [@Smart Punctuation without IP Symbols](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smart-punctuation-without-ip-symbols/182423):
>
> Might it be possible to tweak the current configuration settings around Markdown typographer (also known as “smart punctuation”) to enable Unicode punctuation marks, like quotation marks and dashes, but disable (c), ™, and potentially other specialized glyphs of the kind? I’m a lawyer. I advise on trademarks and copyrights all the time, including on Discourse forums. I have yet to advise anyone to revise a post to add a copyright or trademark symbol, and non-lawyers tend to massively overestima…

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