Comments on: The Footer Copyright Notice

By: John Crumpton

John Crumpton — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:53:06 +0000

And if you’d just like to have the last two digits of the year, ie 2007-10 see: http://www.johncrumpton.com/copyright-notice-with-current-year/

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The Blog of Hanas › Dave Hanas finds random links around the web — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:02:05 +0000

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By: Tahir Akram

Tahir Akram — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:40:38 +0000

Is there certain practices that in the order “Copyright” and (C) symbol should appear?

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:12:56 +0000

Thank you soooo much! I hate it when sites are out of date so this helps me be less self loathing ;)

By: Whatever

Whatever — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:38:16 +0000

Great post! I will use it on every website for now on… annoying seeing a website with outdated Copyright..

This is the best

By: Alex Race

Alex Race — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:08:26 +0000

This is in response to those who say there’s no reason to do the copyright year automatically with code, who cares if it lags, etc.

I don’t know about you, but my day is filled with taking care of family stuff and making money. I would rather not have to remember every single year for every single site I have to change the copyright date when a script can handle it for me.

Automate things that you can, and you’ll save time, and it’ll always be updated. One less thing to remember, frees you up to do what you do best.

Besides…it’s so easy! The amount of time it takes to write the code is the same practically as writing the date manually.

Good post, thanks for dropping it out there.

By: Casey L. Jones

Casey L. Jones — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:17:38 +0000

I love when people reference the law. Not nearly enough people are familiar with the law in regards to their design business!

You state:

“This comes into place as soon as you’ve created the content and placed it in the public domain.”

You are partially correct in terms of US copyright. In the US, you do not need to display the copyright symbol because as soon as you create something in a *tangible form*, it is copyrighted. Tangible can be digital or paper and ink. It does not have to be in the public view first.

That means that your manuscript you penned back when you were 12 and is in your basement chest is copyrighted. That also means that this response, as I am typing it is copyrighted.

A common misnomer is that something must be dated to be copyrighted, or must be filed with the United States Copyright Office (USCO). That is false. Where these two things will help you should you need to go to court, they are not necessary.

For more articles about Intellectual Property specifically regarding US (though many are international) you may be interested in subscribing to my RSS.

My blog can be found at http://www.cljdesign.com/blog/

Casey L. Jones
CLJ Design
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By: Kit Grose

Kit Grose — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:04:35 +0000

I prefer to use the following snippet (using PHP):

By: rmg toolbar

rmg toolbar — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:23:56 +0000

http://www.webweaver.nu/tools/copyright-generator/

By: CSS Model

CSS Model — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:30:42 +0000

PHP or JS is a bit trick way that never needed to update again. :) nice!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:40:00 +0000

@Mihai Of course if your already doing things server side (Content Management) the addition of this would not add any overhead.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:31:19 +0000

Here is the URL for funFooter.
http://www.funfooter.com

Its free, so give a shot

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:30:01 +0000

Or you can simply use funfooter. It is a cool FREE service that displays footer on your webpages and blogs and keeps the year current!

By: Mihai Bojin

Mihai Bojin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:54:26 +0000

@Ruud I wouldn’t implement it automatically because you get the overhead of displaying the year with server side programming, instead of putting it statically and changing it once a year.

For small sites it’s not relevant but for bigger sites you need all the optimization you can do.

At least this is what I think is right. I don’t see the point in putting in the date automatically as even if it lags at the beginning of each new year, it still isn’t as big of a problem.

By: Ruud Welten

Ruud Welten — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:42:49 +0000

I think Jasper is right that in Europe one does not need to use a copyright notice, all content is automatically protected. However it’s couldn’t hurt to put it on there.

@Mihai: & copy; validates just fine, just tested it on the W3C XHTML validator. Also, why wouldn’t you implement an automatically updated year?