>>65834249>how come they never update their copyright year?>>65834548>Do they have to change every single year?>>65834676>I always just coded it as current year.Thread is slow so I can put some interesting info in the thread. The practice of putting
>(c) year - copyright owner namecome from the old copyright system in the United States, which worked in the following way
1) you had to EXPLICITLY assert your copyright by putting this notice in EVERY published copy of your work
2) copyright lasted for a set amount of time after the work was first published
Wanna know the reason " It's a Wonderful Life" ended up becoming a Christmas staple in the states?
>they forgot to renew their copyright and ended up entering into public domain, being free to be broadcast by the tv stationsAll of that ceased to be necessary when the Berne Convention was signed by the United States in 1989.
Due to that convention for every work put in a tangible medium (film, disc, canvas, paper and the likes) the author has an automatic EXCLUSIVE right to distribute (meaning he owns the copyright) and it is explicitly forbidden to impose any registration or marking
That means that after 1989 it is no longer necessary to put "(c) year - company" in anything, but through cargo cult everybody still puts it.
The correct way to do it before Berne convention was
>(c) year of the first version - year of the last review company nameso, for instance, in COver's case, they should be using
>(c) 2016-2023 Cover Corpbecause their first designs come from 2016 but they have designs as recent as 2023 so, for some, the date starts at the first date and for some others, the later date.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk, I genuinely brief companies on that (IP law) for a living despite not doing so in North America
