popinsiteads — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:19:27 +0000

Dudester wrote:
...From reading the responses, I guess my next question is, if copyright is covered from date of creation onwards for 50 years why do so many sites quote creation date to current year ???

Thanks,

You can have
© Whoever, 2005
© Whoever, 2004-2005

If you use the first one it just means it has a copyright in action in this current year.
The second one is when the copyright started and the current year.

You can't really have
© Whoever, 2004-2054
because the copyright may change.

Busy — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:56:10 +0000

Best do a search on these forums for copyright, it has been covered at length before.

Automatic 50 year is world wide for text and image

mscreashuns — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:06:12 +0000

That line would go in your .htaccess file, which should be in the root folder of your website. If you can't find it, you will need to create it.

Dudester — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:45:29 +0000

Rincewind,
I didnt say it would be a pain to type in one line of code, that comment was regarding renaming every page to .php, I have some sites with over 50 pages and over 30 sites to update.

OK, so where does the line you recommended go ?

Thanks,
Dude.

Rincewind — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:11:17 +0000

Hardly a pain to type in one line of code. It's just
AddType application/x-httpd-php html'
And now you can put php code in files named .html saving you form renaming all your files.

Copyright rules varry form place to place. I notice your tag line says Australia. The advice given above is right for the USA but not for the UK. In the UK, copyright is automatic. There is no requirement to stamp the words copyright on everything. It is assumed to be copyright unless marked otherwise. You should check the rules for your locallity to ensure you are covered properly.

Dudester — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:04:37 +0000

Thanks for everyones responses, this is great.
Id rather not fiddle with the htacces file and converting all pages to .php would be a pain so php probably is not practical.
I tend to use Dreamweaver templates so making a change to a 50 page site is one file, thats not the issue.

From reading the responses, I guess my next question is, if copyright is covered from date of creation onwards for 50 years why do so many sites quote creation date to current year ???

Thanks,

Busy — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:05:32 +0000

ideally the footer should be an extra file, one change and whole site is changed.
You only change it when you add new content.

popinsiteads — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:15:45 +0000

or maybe use an inline frame if you don't want php - make it go all to the same url and if you ever need to change things but the date, you can. Javascript is the users year on his computer isn't it.

mscreashuns — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:53:27 +0000

True, but I figured this "dude" wasn't that experienced.

timjpriebe — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:46:13 +0000

mscreashuns wrote: You could also do that using PHP, but that would probably be hard if all of your pages were currently .html files.

Not too hard if you tweaked your htaccess file to handle all html file extensions as php code.