Copyright Date Updating
Hi,
I have been following what appears to be standard convention with copyright notices at the bottom of pages on all my sites stating "Copyright bla bla 200x-2005 All Rights Reserved bla bla"
Now that I have 30+ sites out there, its becoming time consuming to update all these dates each year, 2006, 2007 etc....
Is this copyright notice actually worth anything ? What do others do ?
Thanks,
Dude.
teammatt3 posted this at 03:16 — 27th October 2005.
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Usually you can find a javascript that will update it for you.
I think this will do the trick
<p>© <script language="JavaScript"><!--
today=new Date();
year0=today.getFullYear();
document.write(year0);
//-->
</script>. All Rights Reserved.</p>
kazimmerman posted this at 14:07 — 27th October 2005.
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You could also do that using PHP, but that would probably be hard if all of your pages were currently .html files.
Kurtis
timjpriebe posted this at 15:46 — 27th October 2005.
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Not too hard if you tweaked your htaccess file to handle all html file extensions as php code.
Tim
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Dudester posted this at 03:34 — 27th October 2005.
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Ahhh,
Thanks for that, I'll give it a try.
Dude.
02bunced posted this at 06:53 — 27th October 2005.
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I don't think you need the latest date to be covered by copyright, just the date of creation.
IANAL
demonhale posted this at 07:10 — 27th October 2005.
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Yup date of creation it is...
Busy posted this at 11:49 — 27th October 2005.
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Copyright is from creation onwards. You can not just change the copyright date on a site you built but haven't touched for 10 years.
Besides, the copyright is for 50 years after creation anyways
kazimmerman posted this at 15:53 — 27th October 2005.
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True, but I figured this "dude" wasn't that experienced.
popinsiteads posted this at 16:15 — 27th October 2005.
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or maybe use an inline frame if you don't want php - make it go all to the same url and if you ever need to change things but the date, you can. Javascript is the users year on his computer isn't it.
Busy posted this at 21:05 — 27th October 2005.
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ideally the footer should be an extra file, one change and whole site is changed.
You only change it when you add new content.
Dudester posted this at 22:04 — 27th October 2005.
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Thanks for everyones responses, this is great.
Id rather not fiddle with the htacces file and converting all pages to .php would be a pain so php probably is not practical.
I tend to use Dreamweaver templates so making a change to a 50 page site is one file, thats not the issue.
From reading the responses, I guess my next question is, if copyright is covered from date of creation onwards for 50 years why do so many sites quote creation date to current year ???
Thanks,
popinsiteads posted this at 10:19 — 28th October 2005.
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You can have
© Whoever, 2005
© Whoever, 2004-2005
If you use the first one it just means it has a copyright in action in this current year.
The second one is when the copyright started and the current year.
You can't really have
© Whoever, 2004-2054
because the copyright may change.
Rincewind posted this at 02:11 — 28th October 2005.
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Hardly a pain to type in one line of code. It's just
AddType application/x-httpd-php html'And now you can put php code in files named .html saving you form renaming all your files.
Copyright rules varry form place to place. I notice your tag line says Australia. The advice given above is right for the USA but not for the UK. In the UK, copyright is automatic. There is no requirement to stamp the words copyright on everything. It is assumed to be copyright unless marked otherwise. You should check the rules for your locallity to ensure you are covered properly.
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Dudester posted this at 02:45 — 28th October 2005.
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Rincewind,
I didnt say it would be a pain to type in one line of code, that comment was regarding renaming every page to .php, I have some sites with over 50 pages and over 30 sites to update.
OK, so where does the line you recommended go ?
Thanks,
Dude.
kazimmerman posted this at 03:06 — 28th October 2005.
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That line would go in your .htaccess file, which should be in the root folder of your website. If you can't find it, you will need to create it.
Busy posted this at 09:56 — 28th October 2005.
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Best do a search on these forums for copyright, it has been covered at length before.
Automatic 50 year is world wide for text and image
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