From: Kirk Franklin (jkf@dev.urel.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 14:39:12 PST
I usually put the year the website was launched through the current year,
like this:
Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Yournamehere
I don't know if there's a legal reason for doing this. Many software
products display their copyrights like this, though.
If you wanted to be really fancy, you could use JavaScript or server-side
scripting to write the current year dynamically so it would always be, err,
up to date.
> From: "Magdalene L. Crowley" <maggie@eecs.Berkeley.EDU>
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:32:36 -0800
> To: webnet <webnet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: [Webnet] copyright dates
>
> Our new web design went live in 2002 and the copyright notice at the
> bottom of our pages still says "2002." The information from the U.S.
> Copyright Office that is quoted in "Copyright Notices on Campus
> Websites" (http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7015/copyright/notice.html)
> states that a copyright notice should include "the year of first
> publication of the work." Is the copyright date for a dynamic website
> that is constantly changing the current year or the year that this
> particular design went live?
>
> I think of our website as one unit (like one book with many different
> chapters), so even though many webpages don't change from year to year,
> the copyright date shown at the bottom of all the pages should reflect
> the most current page on the site. Is this correct? How do other
> websites determine their copyright date(s)?
>
> I noticed that the U.C. Berkeley website is copyrighted for 2003.
>
> Thanks for any advice you can give,
> Maggie.
> EECS Department WebTeam
>
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