On 8 May 2017 at 14:27, Erik Natvig <thardobodol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Should be 2017, I think.
> ```
> © <?php echo date("Y"); ?> Red Hat, Inc.
> ```
>
Hi thanks for the feedback.
Some sites do this but that is usually due to a misunderstanding of
copyright (that it only lasts a year and if you don't update you lose
copyright). The actual rules for website copyright are complex due to
the fact they are collections of documents and so need a lawyer versed
in copyright to give a valid opinion. However the version that seems
to be in place is that the copyright for a website design starts when
a major redesign occurs (and not smaller changes). The copyright of
the data inside the webpage may have differing copyrights depending on
what is there but you can generally use the site 'design' as the
starting point. Copyright is a county by country thing with it either
lasting 95 years from publishing in the US to 50 or 75 years depending
on the nation it is published from.
So most of the documents on the website have a design with a copyright
of 2015->2110 which should be long enough. However this is just the
opinion of a non-lawyer who should not be relied on and if someone is
reading this on the lists years later, please please go get a lawyer
to give a much more valid opinion than this.
I hope that makes the mud a little less opaque.. but probably not.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
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