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It Is 2024. Update Your Website Footer

• theandrewbailey 3y ago
  > Ever looked at a website and wondered if it is still in operation? Maybe a thing or two looked like they could have been updated – and then you notice the copyright notice the in the footer. "2012. Right, this site must be dead. Let's move along." (site has a share on Google+ button) This site is dead.
• DamonHD 3y ago
  Except that a dynamically updating copyright year without any work having been done may not be legally valid, ie there was no copyrightable step taken... (IANAL)
  • nathanaldensr 3y ago
    And in the United States, copyright notices are not even necessary; you own the copyright to your work whether or not there is a notice.
    • DamonHD 3y ago
      Generally the Berne Convention makes that so in most of the world, not just the US.
• GloomyBoots 3y ago
  Isn’t an older copyright date preferable? Could do <start-year>-<current-year>.
• easywood 3y ago
  >> 2012. Right, this site must be dead. Let's move along. To be honest, I love it when I see a fixed date. Some information is time-dependent. Maybe I do move along when I see 2012. no time wasted here. That's a feature!