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Re: Copyright dates on lugnet pages ?
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Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:44:04 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Ray Sanders wrote:
I just posted a message and noticed that the copyright date at the bottom of the
post confirmation page reads... " ©2003 LUGNET. All rights reserved."

So I hit the Feedback link at the bottom to report it and noticed that the
copyright date there reads...  "©1998-2001 LUGNET. All rights reserved."

Are these supposed to be revised every year or only when the page is changed ?

thx, Ray

Unofficial answer and based on my possibly imperfect understanding of US
copyright law (which governs) although I have done some digging into this since
I assert copyright on things MTWish:

The asserted copyright should give the first year of publication of the
particular item being asserted, (at whatever level you are at, a page, a
section, a whole site) and the year of last change. (just printing off another
copy is not a "change", so some of my instructions carry copyrights that are
older than now, even though I print them today)

LUGNET as a whole then, is copyright  ©1998-2005 (currently) as the owners and
admins have added copyrightable content this year. (LUGNET doesn't assert
copyright on individual content by posters, merely certain republish and
attribution rights, but does acknowledge copyright BY the poster)

The post confirmation page isn't asserting copyright on your post content, just
the page itself so if it was last changed (and first changed) in 2003, that
would be right, I think.

Ditto the feedback page, if it was last revised in 2001.

That said, there is sometimes laxity in updateing some of these. The admins
cetainly appreciate any errors spotted, of whatever sort, being brought to our
attention, see the sidebar of admin.general for the email addys to use.

Good question, hope that helps.



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(...) I never noticed that there was a copyright notice before. I would suggest that the copyright text be made into a link that describes the copyright policy. (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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I just posted a message and noticed that the copyright date at the bottom of the post confirmation page reads... " ©2003 LUGNET. All rights reserved." So I hit the Feedback link at the bottom to report it and noticed that the copyright date there (...) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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