Copyright on website?
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- freshdude
On your website, do you only use the current year for your copyright?
Say you launched in 2004, so (c) 2004 - 2012?
Or just (c) 2012?
- randommail0
You still use the same website from 2004?
- freshdude0
Some of the work is the same. That's all.
- utopian0
Copyright © 2004-2012 COMPANY NAME. All rights reserved.
- randommail0
QBN's legal department to the rescue.
Assuming the work is client-work, you probably don't have any Copyright over them. The client would. You should always try to retain creative authorship of them though.
So by putting a Copyright line on your site really only says you own the rights to the website, the language used, the photography of the work, etc. Not necessarily the rights to the work itself. In which case, you would just put the year(s) that the website existed in it's present state.
I am a licensed QBN lawyer specializing in Intellectual Property. Not.
- Technically you retain copyright unless you specifically assign it over to the client.Nathan_Adams
- uan0
Family is everything: Krop Design Jobs, (mt) hosting.
© 1999-2012 QBN LLC.
- omg0
maybe you should ask the copyright office what is best when you register your work with them.
- inteliboy0
Legally, it's actually just a reminder. Your site/works are already copyrighted, even if you have written an idea on a napkin. Well that's how the law works here in Australia anyways...
- omg0
"Poor man's copyright"
A widely circulated strategy to avoid the cost of copyright registration is referred to as the "poor man's copyright." It proposes that the creator send the work to himself in a sealed envelope by registered mail, using the postmark to establish the date. This technique has not been recognized in any published opinions of the United States courts. The United States Copyright Office makes clear that the technique is no substitute for actual registration.[22] The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office discusses the technique but does not recommend its use
- slappy0
Do you still need to tell people your work is copyrighted?
- animatedgif0
> Implying people would actually want to steal your work
- omg0
Works created on or after January 1, 1978, are not subject to renewal registration. - copyright.gov
Which makes me kinda laugh that websites continue to put
©1999-2012 as if they were creating years on a tombstone. Are they implying they are renewing every year? seems improper when a company or website just needs to put the year they've registered their work. Some people renew copyrights on the condition that a change of ownership has taken place.
- omg0
^
this is in no way related to QBN adding ©1999-2012 to their website. It was merely coincidence.
- formed0
Registering a copyright is pretty easy ($50 and some forms). The advantage is that you get to say it is a "registered copyright", etc., etc. The bigger advantage is the amount you can sue for, should you have to.
As most things, though, it will come down to who has the legal fire power.