[wp-hackers] Update your copyright notices today!

Stephane Daury wordpress at tekartist.org
Tue Jan 1 16:29:00 GMT 2008


Happy new year, and long lives WP!

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Stephane Daury - http://tekartist.org/



On Jan 01, 2008, at 11:12, Chris Williams wrote:

> Copyright is not the date of creation, it is the date of  
> "publication" [1].
> Many works get their copyright renewed with each new republication  
> (see much
> of Disney's material).
>
> Arguably, a WP page is "published" each time it is generated for the  
> user.
> But this has not been legally tested and such display could be  
> considered
> simply "public performance" (see [1], and the section "publication").
>
> So using a dynamically presented copyright date seems completely
> appropriate.  However, if you read [1] further, you'll see that  
> printing a
> date of copyright is optional, so this whole discussion may be moot.
>
> IANAL, YMMV, this is all US-biased, etc., etc.
>
> Chris
>
> [1] http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
>
>> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab.unc.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Update your copyright notices today!
>>
>> Copyrights do not change just because the year changes. New posts in
>> 2008 should have a 2008 copyright. Old posts and pages should have  
>> the
>> copyright of whenever they're created.
>
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