I've seen in many websites that these exists a part called "footer" at bottom of the page and there's a sentence written on it.
All rights reserved.
I know what it means. But everytime i read that, i have a feeling like this : "Who reserved it?" and i always had doubt about this sentence :
All rights reserved by company X.
Is this one wrong ? If yes, why? If no, why i see the first sentence everywhere?
Best Answer
All rights reserved means all rights are reserved by whatever entity owns those rights.
In many cases a publication may involve many different rights which are not all owned by the same entity. The publisher may have some rights, the author have others, the artists or photographers who supplied illustrations have yet others—on a website even the coders and the software publishers may have rights which they need to protect. And those rights are transferable—any of those parties may have sold or licensed their rights to somebody else.
So all rights reserved is basically a general admonition "Don't steal anything you find here".