There is a reason not to automatically render the Copyright year to the current, because that is when the copyright is supposed to take effect. By always updating the copyright to the current year, you are basically saying that copyright starts this year, even though that may not always be true. I am not a lawyer, so I cannot give you the specifics of the law, but copyright is given by action, meaning as soon as you say/write something, you have copyright over it. You can probably automate it so that it updates when you publish new content, but updating it when there is no new copyrightable content is not good. You will have to talk to a lawyer, but usually automating legalese is not a good idea.
Exactly, I can't recall what I read on copyrights in that regards but from what I remember it's important that it stays related to the publish date of the webpage.
Not quite sure about content updates on the webpage itself, but I guess it would also be a case allowing a copyright year update.
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There is a reason not to automatically render the Copyright year to the current, because that is when the copyright is supposed to take effect. By always updating the copyright to the current year, you are basically saying that copyright starts this year, even though that may not always be true. I am not a lawyer, so I cannot give you the specifics of the law, but copyright is given by action, meaning as soon as you say/write something, you have copyright over it. You can probably automate it so that it updates when you publish new content, but updating it when there is no new copyrightable content is not good. You will have to talk to a lawyer, but usually automating legalese is not a good idea.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.
Exactly, I can't recall what I read on copyrights in that regards but from what I remember it's important that it stays related to the publish date of the webpage.
Not quite sure about content updates on the webpage itself, but I guess it would also be a case allowing a copyright year update.