[Sigia-l] Updated copyright notices

[Anders Ramsay]

2006/1/2, Eric Reiss <elr at e-reiss.com>:
> Just a friendly reminder that this is the day to update the copyright
> notices on your websites. I'm always astounded at how many sites
> still have copyrights from 2003 and 2004. Not a good way to build
> trust...

I tend to spec copyright as <current year>, encouraging developers to
make the year value dynamic.  While this ensures that the current year
always is displayed, I do wonder if automatically updating the
copyright year value is appropriate from a legal standpoint for all
web content.  Is it always legally correct to just display the current
year in the copyright on a web page, or is there some other legal
dependency tied to the copyright year?

-Anders