Because we can?
By the way, mine displays copyright year of a post/Page on posts/Pages, year for archive queries, and a range (first-last) elsewhere. It’s sort of a global copyright.
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zaz
(@zaz)
Wow! See what happens when I sleep late. ;+) Thanks so much, all of you.
I did manage to get a page copyright statement in, that was the easy part. I’m going to try out your suggestions, today. They sound like they’ll take care of it all.
I’m a writer, so I never know when I might blog something that I want to use later. So, I figured, better take care of it before it becomes an issue.
Thanks, again,
Z
Exactly, zaz. Pretty much my reasoning too.
Since a general copyright in the footer would be sufficient if all the posts were the same, it would seem the only reason to do it would be if you wanted to vary your copyright post-by-post.
To do that, you could use the Custom Fields feature. Create a field called “Copyright” and then you could fill it in as you post. This post is “Copyright 2005 by me” and this post is “Released as public domain 2005 by me” and this post is “Creative Commons Share Alike Licensed 2005” and this post I had a brain malfunction and forgot to put anything…but it’s still copyright by me under US and treaty law anyway…and so on.
Not one for letting the critics crowd me out, here’s my take on a copyright plugin:
http://guff.szub.net/blog-copyright/
And if any one wants to see how it looks….. stop on by Tannagh- TG’s World. Took me all of three minutes or so to install it and config it to my liking.
Tg
Hmm. I think the one thing that didn’t occur to me was to make it “loop” aware. Or are you fine with the range of dates displayed, Tg?
Kaf – I’m OK with it — I didn’t even notice it last night until I saw the other post about it. But it does look a little weird. If you can find a way I’ll take it for a spin. If not, I can live with it.
Tg
Oh, I’ll fix it, but the how is a little in question.
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zaz
(@zaz)
You know how sometimes life takes over? Well, that’s what happened after I thanked all of your for your help, and wasn’t that a good thing? Now, there’s even more good stuff. Keep up the great ideas!
Thanks, again. Z
The simplest way to accomplish this on any dynamic Web site is to place the copyright notice in the footer file (in this case, footer.php). This will ensure that the copyright ends up on every page in the site, and WordPress is no exception, because its footer file is included on every page.
My code is
© <a href="/index.php/copyright/">Copyright <?php the_time('Y'); ?></a> <a href="mailto:dennis@mymacblog.com">Dennis R. Metzcher</a> and <a href="http://www.cyerasolutions.com" target="_blank">Cyera Solutions, LLC</a>. All rights reserved.
I always include a link to a more detailed copyright notice. In this case, there are also two links in the copyright text for me and my company that make it easy to send an email. It’s simpler to just make the whole string of text one link to a detailed copyright notice, however.
dmetzcher — while that may be the simplest, it isn’t always the best way. Copyrights at the bottom of the page are optimal for protecting the site as a whole, but not necessarily the content itself. The best way to protect the content is to display the copyright by the poster.
Tg
@techgnome
Not having a copyright notice doesn’t mean you don’t have copyright on your content. By Berne convention[ http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html ] you still do irrespective of whether the notice is there or not.
So anyway you are protected.
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zaz
(@zaz)
It may be true that you have the copyright even if it’s not stated, but stating it clearly allows no confusion on the point. That’s why, in addition to the notice in my footer, I wanted one on each post. Would any of us go to court if someone stole something from our blogs? Probably not, but I think seeing that copyright notice repeated on each post reinforces that you’re at least semi-serious about it. \;+)
Z
