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notice of copyright. In either event, the law specifically provides that the source of the reproduction or original reproduced shall be cited. To give the Section another construction would be to nullify, eliminate and take from the paragraph the works they contain a notice that their publication is reserved. The words are plain and clear, it should be applied. In the case at bar, PECI did not give notice of its copyright for the simple reason that it did not have one but it did notify Sotto and Alindada that in the publication of the article we reserved all right, which was legally equivalent to a notice of copyright. Furthermore, the latter would have had the legal right to publish the article by giving the source of the reproduction to which it failed to. If it had been the purpose of and intent of the Legislature to limit the reproduction of news items, editorial paragraphs and articles in periodicals to those which have a notice of copyright only, it never would have said if they contain a notice that their publication is reserved.