{"id":3214,"date":"2015-10-03T09:17:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2017-01-22T23:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T07:00:19","slug":"copyright-range-on-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/archives\/3214","title":{"rendered":"Copyright range on your website"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you need a copyright symbol?\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

You technically don’t need a copyright to protect yourself but it is a reminder that your work is just not free for the taking and the thought is that in court it’s much harder for a person to claim they didn’t realize they couldn’t\u00a0use your work if you have the copyright notice visible on your site.<\/p>\n

One little detail that I see often overlooked is the date in the footer. People\u00a0will put a copyright there with just one\u00a0year – the year the site was created. But a website and especially a blog\u00a0is constantly changing so therefore it should have a copyright range<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0because all of your work is protected from the first design to the last design.<\/p>\n

It’s amazing how fast those years roll around and before you know you have to update the year!\u00a0 Below is a bit of code that I use on my sites that I develop that puts the current year on your site. So all you have to do is put it\u00a0in the footer of your website and forget about it!<\/p>\n

Javascript for a simple website<\/h3>\n

&copy; 1997 – <script type=”text\/javascript”> year = new Date();document.write(year.getFullYear());
\n<\/script> Eloine&#8217;s Design Services. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Or\u00a0PHP for adding to a self hosted wordpress blog<\/h3>\n

Search for the\u00a0footer file in the edit tab under appearance and insert and edit the line below<\/p>\n

[php] &copy; Eloine Chapman&amp;amp;#8217;s Graphic Design Services. 1997 – &amp;lt;script type=”text\/javascript”&amp;gt; year = new Date();
\ndocument.write(year.getFullYear()); [\/php]<\/p>\n

Scroll to the bottom of this post and you’ll see what it produces.<\/p>\n

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Do you need a copyright symbol? You technically don’t need a copyright to protect yourself but it is a reminder that your work is just not free for the taking and the thought is that in court it’s much harder for a person to claim they didn’t realize they couldn’t\u00a0use your work if you have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,123,124,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-tutorial","category-tutorials","category-web-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}