[Web4lib] Always up-to-date copyright statement

[Tim Spalding]

Hey, I just set my computer date to 1923. Apparently your copyright
has expired! :)

I'd put in one note. There are some reasons to provide a full and
accurate copyright notice—in particular there are traps with claiming
a year you don't actually have. But, in  all Berne countries—the US
and UK included—copyright does not *require* a notice. This wasn't
always the case in the US, but it is now. A stated copyright can help
you prove your case, and provides the potential of court fee recovery
in US courts, but failing to provide a notice (or register it with the
US Copyright Office) by no means destroys the right.

Best,
Tim

On 1/12/08, D.H. Mattison <dmattison at shaw.ca> wrote:
> January 12, 2008
>
> Thanks for this tip and reminder Peter. I've used something like that, but
> much much shorter, on my BC Digital Library site (http://www.bcdlib.tc.ca)
> to show when a page was last modified. If you substitute "Copyright 1999-"
> for "Last revision: " it will achieve the same result and even give you a
> time stamp. Rather ugly compared to yours, but maybe there's a more elegant
> method with the Javascript date function. I'm not sure whether this
> Javascript will come through, but here it is. If it doesn't, just look at
> the source for any of the pages at the above URL.
>
> <script language="JavaScript">
> <!-- Begin
> document.writeln("Last revision: " + document.lastModified);
> //  End -->
> </script>
>
> David Mattison
> http://www.davidmattison.ca
>
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