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OT: Copyright 2020. The amount of websites that don’t dynamically set this to resolve to the current year is absurdly high.
by rorykoehler 5y ago
OT: Copyright 2020. The amount of websites that don’t dynamically set this to resolve to the current year is absurdly high.
- _tom_ 5y agoNot a lawyer. I seem to recall that setting this to a year other than the correct one can affect copyright. Set it to the last modified date, not the current year.
- JimDabell 5y agoIf you dynamically set this to the current year, you’re doing it wrong. The copyright notice is there to indicate when the copyright started; i.e. when the creative work was first fixed into a tangible medium. If you created something in 2020 and you tell people that it’s copyright 2021, you are in essence cheating to get an extra year of the already absurdly long copyright period. If you created something in 2020 and then modified it in 2021, then use a range of 2020–2021. The copyright notice is not there to tell you what the current year is. What would the point of that be? Everybody knows what the current year is.
- rorykoehler 5y agoFair enough but using a single year doesn't make sense in the context of websites at all then. Following on another question I have from this is why is a year sufficient? Is it the 1 Jan or 31 Dec? that would make quite a difference I would think?