Thank you for pointing this out Scott. I have long had a problem with this
requirement for precisely the reasons you stated.
Holly Timm
Cuyahoga County Co-CC
-----Original Message-----
From: ohgen-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:ohgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of Scott R. C. Anderson
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 8:50 PM
To: ohgen(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [OHGENWEB] Updating Sites
Legally, you aren't supposed to change the copyright unless you've actually
modified the web page in the new year. Otherwise a book publisher could, for
example, update the copyright with each new printing and a book would never
fall out of copyright, and this is clearly wrong (and a bad thing for the
public domain).
So I don't think it's honest to use a script that always displays the
current year.
It's also bureaucratic to require that the copyright be the current year,
because it misses the purpose of such a policy: that web sites be kept
updated and fresh.
Hopefully you are updating the content on your pages on a regular basis. If
you aren't, you shouldn't be hiding behind a faux copyright year.
So, better things to do:
1) Put it in your own calendar to update the site and then its copyright at
least once in January.
2) Or use this script, which looks at the page date itself:
<p>Copyright <script
type="text/javascript">document.write((new
Date(document.lastModified)).getFullYear());</script></p>
Scott
On Sunday, January 23, 2011 9:10 PM MT, KBAnet <input(a)kbanet.com> wrote:
Here's a little java script that will update the year
automatically.
Just insert your name where it says to and insert it where you want the
copyright notice to appear.
<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- Begin
copyright=new Date();
update=copyright.getFullYear();
document.write("Copyright ©"+ update + " INSERT YOUR NAME All
rights reserved."); // End --> </script>
----- Original Message -----
From: KBAnet<mailto:input@kbanet.com>
To: ohgen@rootsweb.com<mailto:ohgen@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 7:37 PM
Subject: [OHGENWEB] Updating Sites
The Election Committee tells me that they have visited many OHGenWeb
sites and have found quite a few without a current copyright date and
several without the CC's name or e-mail address on the main page.
Please check your sites to make sure these pieces of information are
there.
Dale
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