Always up-to-date copyright statement

On all of my websites, I'm now using a copyright statement
which never
expires and shows today's date. To see this is action, call
up:

http://www.britishb
ookstoday.com/

and scroll to the bottom of the page.

To see the code, look at the source. Feel free to
copy/paste/edit.
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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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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 <dmattisonshaw.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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I used to do something like that with my sites too. However,
at some
point, I decided it was nice to have a date that showed the
year the
site went live up to the present.

Using server-side includes, I do it something like this:

&copy; 1998-<!--#config
timefmt="%Y"--><!--#echo
var="LAST_MODIFIED"-->

Using php, I do it either (depending on how honest I wanted
to be):

&copy; 1999-<?php echo(date("Y")) ?>
or
&copy; 1999-<?php echo(date("Y",
getlastmod())) ?>

Tom
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