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RoboGeek:
Hate having to change your copyright statement on your website every year?  :mad:

Just do this:

for PHP add this code (minus the spaces)
&Copy; Copyright < ? php echo date ( ' Y ' ) ; ? > Your Business Name


for HTML/java use this (minus the spaces)
Copyright &Copy; < s c r i p t type="text/java s c r i p t">  document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); < / s c r i p t >  Your Business Name


tada!!  Enjoy!

witchdoctor:

--- Quote from: RoboGeek on January 04, 2012, 03:06:00 PM ---Hate having to change your copyright statement on your website every year?  :mad:

Just do this:

for PHP add this code (minus the spaces)
&Copy; Copyright < ? php echo date ( ' Y ' ) ; ? > Your Business Name


for HTML/java use this (minus the spaces)
Copyright &Copy; < s c r i p t type="text/java s c r i p t">  document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); < / s c r i p t >  Your Business Name


tada!!  Enjoy!

--- End quote ---

I thought the Copyright date was to reflect the earliest date a work was copyrighted. Makes it easier to compare plagiarizations by their publication date vs the Copyright on the original work. As such, it would be:


--- Code: ---for PHP add this code (minus the spaces)
&Copy; Copyright <date website made or business incorporated> to < ? php echo date ( ' Y ' ) ; ? > Your Business Name


for HTML/java use this (minus the spaces)
Copyright <date website made or business incorporated> &Copy; < s c r i p t type="text/java s c r i p t">  document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); < / s c r i p t >  Your Business Name
--- End code ---

Maybe I'm wrong in my reasons, but I would still prefer to have a year range as opposed to something a competitor could point to and claim "this guy just started THIS YEAR".

RoboGeek:
if you have the copyright current, it doesn't matter when it was registered. Copyrights aren't intended to reflect the date the business started - just that the copyrights are current.

Say your page says copyright 2001-2009 because you forgot to update the date. Somebody could steal your content today and say its post-copyright date so you don't have any rights to it. Obviously you do, but why open the door for that?

witchdoctor:

--- Quote from: RoboGeek on January 04, 2012, 03:44:20 PM ---if you have the copyright current, it doesn't matter when it was registered. Copyrights aren't intended to reflect the date the business started - just that the copyrights are current.

Say your page says copyright 2001-2009 because you forgot to update the date. Somebody could steal your content today and say its post-copyright date so you don't have any rights to it. Obviously you do, but why open the door for that?

--- End quote ---

No door is open. It is well known that Copyrights lasts decades beyond the original date and no lawyer, judge, jury, or even most advertisers/web-hosts would easily be convinced otherwise. Any flak from the plagiarizer, and a DMCA take-down notice to their hosting provider or advertisement publisher should save you the trouble of even humoring them with a response.

Ward:
How many do you think are actually copyrighted anyway? My bet is most are just listed with that and there is no copyright.

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