[Sigia-l] Updated copyright notices

[Eric Reiss]

I'm genuinely sorry I brought this up.

And if your site still reads Copyright 2002-2004, then I guess you
don't care anyway.

Eric

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From: listera at rcn.com
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Updated copyright notices
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:19:32 -0500

>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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