I meant that you do not need to have a copyright notice at all because it is not required by law. To the extend that it is there to inform people about the copyright status of the site, it is completely useless. Most sites just put © $LauchYear - $CurrentYear in the footer. How are you supposed to know which year applies to which content? Look at this page right here. It has a copyright notice claiming that the DEV Community has a copyright on the site. But that is not true because 95% the content is generated by the users. I think its real purpose is to signal legitimacy, professionalism, and being part of the cargo-cult.
© $LauchYear - $CurrentYear
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I meant that you do not need to have a copyright notice at all because it is not required by law. To the extend that it is there to inform people about the copyright status of the site, it is completely useless. Most sites just put
© $LauchYear - $CurrentYearin the footer. How are you supposed to know which year applies to which content?Look at this page right here. It has a copyright notice claiming that the DEV Community has a copyright on the site. But that is not true because 95% the content is generated by the users.
I think its real purpose is to signal legitimacy, professionalism, and being part of the cargo-cult.