Dear Developers, Don’t Hardcode Copyright Years

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14 May, 2008

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Dear Developers, Don’t Hardcode Copyright Years

One place to make your website look current is in the copyright text at the bottom of the page. This is obvious but many sites have overlooked their copyright year.

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Kevin Harville on 14 May, 2008 wrote:

"Dear Developers, Don't Hardcode Copyright Dates" is telling someone to claim a copyright in a year later than a work was created. It isn't likely to offend anyone, but isn't legally correct.

That doesn't likely matter at all in a blog type situation.

I see some publishing companies are copyrighting their books the year after it comes out to make them appear more recent. Perhaps they register them at that time.