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Please note: Copyright notices are not required, they are only used out of habit, ignorance, or as a mild deterrent. http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf
by stedaniels 12y ago
Please note: Copyright notices are not required, they are only used out of habit, ignorance, or as a mild deterrent.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice
http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p03_copyright_notices http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p03_copyright_no...
- mikk0j 12y agoI do it for all three reasons, but habit most of all. But thanks for the links. There also seem to be (other?) lawyers on this comment thread who have pointed out how useless such notices are for enforceable copyright protection.
- lloeki 12y ago> out of habit, ignorance, or as a mild deterrent I use them out of courtesy, to notice the person in front of the content that said content is (c) and that I actually did not forget to set a BSD/MIT/GPL/CC license, and/or to link to the actual license (which indeed leverages copyright). Of course I know this is not needed from a legal PoV but I'm not using it for legal protection, I'm using it for actual humans to parse. Also, the date metadata has been useful to me a few times. Please don't increment it automatically.