Copyright Notice Script

[morestar]

I had posted this copyright notice script earlier in another post as a suggestion but wanted to share it here as well for future use.

Basically what the script does is take the current year (in javascript) and displays it on your page with the copyright symbol beside it as well...the benefit of this copyright notice script is that when the new year comes, you don't have to update the copyright notice on your site or on your client sites either...

This is the code for the copyright notice script:

<em>&copy;<script type="text/javascript"> 
var theDate=new Date()
document.write(theDate.getFullYear());
                </script> 
	        
              YourDomain.com</em>. All Rights Reserved.

This will display as ©2009 YourDomain.com. All Rights Reserved.

[mjtaylor]

I like it, I like it!! Thanks!

[morestar]

Oh I know, I was sooo happy when I figured it out !

Thanks MJT!

[DaveSawers]

But you should put in a <noscript> section with the current year hard coded for those poor souls who have Javascript turned off.

[Uncle Dog]

Even more straightforward to just have ©YourDomain.com. All Rights Reserved.

[morestar]

Well that just completely defeats the purpose now doesn't it?



I guess the only way to do it while keeping in mind the user's accessibility would to either program the year in using a server side language or use the same code and in the noscript tag refrain from using the year...like the following...

<em>&copy;<script type="text/javascript"> 
var theDate=new Date()
document.write(theDate.getFullYear());
                </script> 
<noscript>&copy;YourDomain.com - All Rights Reserved.</noscript>

I don't like it but it's not too shabby...

[Uncle Dog]

I thought the purpose of your script was to stop your "this stuff is all mine, hands off" statement from ever looking out of date. My 'script' achieves this in 0 lines.

Yes, it's lovely to keep it up to date with JavaScript, so why not go further and say ©October 2009 YourDomain.com All Rights Reserved or ©30th October YourDomain.com. All Rights Reserved then you know it's REALLY current.

[morestar]

lol Uncle Dog, you know it's funny, im actually coming to Scotland today - yes - to open a can'a woopass !!!

[Uncle Dog]

Woopass? Is that Canadian Haggis?

This seems like a good point to get back on track and indicate the emergency exits located on your left Copying/Republishing Poll and right How should I word my copyright notice? (Stock photo website)

I have often wondered exactly how specific a Copyright statement needs to be. Does it really need to include the year?

[weegillis]

Uncle Dog: The year is there to denote date of creation (or year in which it is created). If something is created in 2001, there is no reason to update the copyright year if the item has not changed since then.

If there are components of a 2001 creation in a 2009 work by the same creator, then the copyright would extend over the range of years, 2001-2009, or be copyright 2009 with attribution to earlier copyrights.

[morestar]

Originally Posted by weegillis

Uncle Dog: The year is there to denote date of creation (or year in which it is created). If something is created in 2001, there is no reason to update the copyright year if the item has not changed since then.

If there are components of a 2001 creation in a 2009 work by the same creator, then the copyright would extend over the range of years, 2001-2009, or be copyright 2009 with attribution to earlier copyrights.

So in the case of google for instance, the copyright for the current year, so does microsoft so I figured if the bigwigs are doing it that way then it's the 'business' way to go...

It makes more sense to copyright from the year of creation to the current year though...I wonder what the reasons are for not including the time-frame.

[weegillis]

The current copyright year covers all creations of this year. Since they already own all previous copyrights, only the new creations are declared. Technically, a revision is still protected by the original copyright.

Copyrights are set to extend over a fixed period of years. The later the copyright year, the further into the future it extends. Piss poor reason for using the current year, though. We'll all be dead before it runs out.

[Feydakin]

Originally Posted by weegillis

Uncle Dog: The year is there to denote date of creation (or year in which it is created). If something is created in 2001, there is no reason to update the copyright year if the item has not changed since then.

If there are components of a 2001 creation in a 2009 work by the same creator, then the copyright would extend over the range of years, 2001-2009, or be copyright 2009 with attribution to earlier copyrights.

This is why when I used to care about copyright notices my script was hard coded with the published date - {current date} c Site Name / Company Name