Do I need to update the copyright year on the site?

Question

Copyright

What should be in the footer? Year of the site's first publication? This year? Range?

(c) 2010 vs. © 2011 vs. © 2010--2011?

Do I need to put copyright at all? Without this, the materials are no longer under copyright protection?

Answer 1

Disagree with the previous speaker!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1 %80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE
The copyright holder (the author or his assignee) has the right to use the copyright protection sign, which is placed on each copy of the work, to notify about the exclusive right to the work, which is placed on each copy of the work and ...
I created the work, I I protect him.

Answer 2

Do you have papers from the tax and other structures that your information is really protected? :)

Answer 3

Article 1271. Sign of copyright protection The right
holder, in order to notify him of the exclusive right to a work, has the right to use the sign of copyright protection, which is placed on each copy of the work and consists of the following elements: the Latin letter "C" in a circle ; the name or designation of the copyright holder; the year of the first publication of the work.

It seems that all the answers are highlighted in bold :) If in more detail:
- The sign is not required, it is used to inform visitors that you know your rights, if it would be a little easier to bring him for their violation
- the © (c) sign is a replacement for ASCII, for example, legal it can hardly serve as a replacement, in my opinion, that is, it is tantamount to the absence
- after the name or title sign
- after the year of creation
Years through dashes are used for convenience so as not to “number” each site material separately, but generally speaking the second year is legally void, moreover, you misinform the visitor by reducing the validity of your rights - it can play against you

Answer 4

It depends on what is on your site. If you have any information update in 2011, then you need to set the range (for example, © 2010-2011).
And if there is nothing new, then put it at your discretion :) I prescribe a range value on my website and the website of all clients by default - you won’t go wrong.

Answer 5

third option

Answer 6

On some sites I have "<?=date("Y");?>"...

Answer 7

Wikipedia says :

The copyright holder (the author or his successor) to notify of the exclusive right to the work belonging to him has the right to use the copyright protection sign, which is placed on each copy of the work and consists of the following elements:
- the Latin letter "C" in a circle;
— the name or designation of the copyright holder;
the year of the first publication of the work.
For example:
© XYZ Corporation, 2006
This notification format was established by the 1952 Universal (Geneva) Copyright Convention. So far, it is purely informational.

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