[Sigia-l] Updated copyright notices

[Listera]

Eric Reiss:

> Yes, clearly you want a range of dates. This is the legally correct form.

It is? In what country? 'Cause in the U.S. here's what's legal, in excerpts:

The way in which copyright protection is secured is frequently
misunderstood. No publication or registration or other action in the
Copyright Office is required to secure copyright.

Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created, and a work is
"created" when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time.

If a work is prepared over a period of time, the part of the work that is
fixed on a particular date constitutes the created work as of that date.

Publication is no longer the key to obtaining federal copyright as it was
under the Copyright Act of 1909.

The use of a copyright notice is no longer required under U. S. law,
although it is often beneficial. Because prior law did contain such a
requirement, however, the use of notice is still relevant to the copyright
status of older works.

<http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html>

Other than some contestable argument against "innocent infringement" © Date
Owner notice doesn't seem to protect a whole lot. As to what that date ought
to be for a "site" that changes daily and incorporates material with
different "first published" dates, all bets are off.

Yet another "best practice" that turns out to be personal preference?. :-)

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Ziya

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