Our legal team at a large enterprise firm would not allow us to set the date automatically. I am not a lawyer and don't know their reasoning. There is a lot of debate about whether the copyright notice and/or date is even required. Historically the copyright year in a notice was the publish date. This was useful evidence to prove your work was published before that of an infringer. As the web allows us to constantly revise our content and even provide it dynamically, the copyright year has lost its meaning. At the end of the day, under current law, your work is inherently copyrighted the moment you create it. But given the historical reasoning for adding a year to the copyright notice, it seems adding the year to the copyright is detrimental. If your content is static, you can add the copyright to the date the page content was published. Otherwise, I lean toward leaving the year out of the notice, or omitting the copyright notice entirely.
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I have always wondered myself why people usually never set the copyright date dynamically.
Our legal team at a large enterprise firm would not allow us to set the date automatically. I am not a lawyer and don't know their reasoning. There is a lot of debate about whether the copyright notice and/or date is even required. Historically the copyright year in a notice was the publish date. This was useful evidence to prove your work was published before that of an infringer. As the web allows us to constantly revise our content and even provide it dynamically, the copyright year has lost its meaning. At the end of the day, under current law, your work is inherently copyrighted the moment you create it. But given the historical reasoning for adding a year to the copyright notice, it seems adding the year to the copyright is detrimental. If your content is static, you can add the copyright to the date the page content was published. Otherwise, I lean toward leaving the year out of the notice, or omitting the copyright notice entirely.