Wondering how others are adding a 'Copyright' line on the foot of their sites?

Looking for something rather small in font, like Arial 6pt, on the bottom right.
I tried to do this in HTML code in a Placeholder but only get the words not the C symbol.

Here is some example code I tried, stock, that did not work...
<footer> <small>&copy; Copyright 2018, Example Corporation</small> </footer>

...note: some a posting with an XAR file but won't open without buying other software, so hoping to find simple drop in code and where