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Nice and clean and simple. I’de been using a SSI hack for mine.

Last edited by NyteOwl (2006-05-03 18:09:22)

net-carver, thanks for the link.. Having read the article here is a (non-tested) solution

&copy; <txp:if_custom_field name="articledate"><txp:custom_field name="articledate" /><txp:else /><txp:posted format="%Y" /></txp:if_custom_field> - <txp:php>echo date('Y');</txp:php>, <txp:if_custom_field name="authorname"><txp:custom_field name="authorname" /><txp:else /><txp:author link="1" /></txp:if_custom_field>

> Edited to textile

Last edited by colak (2008-03-16 08:40:32)

Hi Net-carver
You are welcome to use all of it. I’m glad if I have been helpful
You are right re the current year. At least with the us copyright law which adheres to the Berne convention.

The way I understand it, the current year would be relevent in a site wide copyright notice. so the code above could be readjusted to

<txp:if_article_list>
&copy; 20xx - <txp:php>echo date('Y');</txp:php>, <a href="site.com">site name or respective author</a>
</txp:if_article_list>
<txp:if_individual_article>
&copy; <txp:if_custom_field name="articledate"><txp:custom_field name="articledate" /><txp:else /><txp:posted format="%Y" /> - </txp:if_custom_field>, <txp:if_custom_field name="authorname"><txp:custom_field name="authorname" /><txp:else /><txp:author link="1" /></txp:if_custom_field></txp:if_individual_article>

Re your plugin i’m not php savvy so I cannot write the conditional code which I would like in there which would go a bit like

<txp:if_article_list>
&copy;
if a date is set in the plugin show(that date) else show oldest posted article date in the database 
- <txp:php>echo date('Y');</txp:php>, <a href="site.com">site name or respective author</a>
</txp:if_article_list>

<txp:if_individual_article>
&copy; <txp:if_custom_field name="articledate"><txp:custom_field name="articledate" />
<txp:else />
<txp:posted format="%Y" /> - modyfied year </txp:if_custom_field>, <txp:if_custom_field name="authorname"><txp:custom_field name="authorname" />
<txp:else />
<txp:author link="1" /></txp:if_custom_field></txp:if_individual_article>

The problem I see is if the article has been modified so copyright would read something like © 2000-2001. This would be confusing as it can mean to some people that the copyright has expired.

>Edited to textile

Last edited by colak (2009-04-08 08:01:19)

…copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author…

That is correct. Use the date(s) the works were created and modified.

What Is Copyright?

Mary wrote:

…copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author…

That is correct. Use the date(s) the works were created and modified.
What Is Copyright?

Well it is correct re US law but in the Universal Copyright Convention it is 25 years (most times after the death of the author)

ARTICLE IV

a) The term of protection for works protected under this Convention shall not be less than the life of the author and twenty-five years after his death. However, any Contracting State which, on the effective date of this Convention in that State, has limited this term for certain classes of works to a period computed from the first publication of the work, shall be entitled to maintain these exceptions and to extend them to other classes of works. For all these classes the term of protection shall not be less than twenty-five years from the date of first publication.

source: www.unesco.org/…./copyrightconvention.rtf

Also check out the Berne Convention which states

Article 7

(1) The term of protection granted by this Convention shall be the life of the author and fifty years after his death.

Mary wrote:

That is correct. Use the date(s) the works were created and modified.

so net-carver’s plugin should keep a record of whenever the article has been updated
ie © Copyright 2002, 2003, 2005, etc Author’s name

net-carver wrote:

Related: there is an audio piece over at IT Conversations on the trends in US copyright. Some food for thought.

>Edit: (2006-05-19 12:06:45) just listened to it… wonderful stuff. Also check Rights v. Rights

> Edited to textile

Last edited by colak (2008-03-16 08:53:24)