RE: Two questions about Copyright notices

Subject: RE: Two questions about Copyright notices
From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
To: "Robart, Kay" <Kay -dot- Robart -at- tea -dot- state -dot- tx -dot- us>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:31:05 -0400

Thanks.

I thought there was a concern in the OTHER direction, that
you (society) didn't want people changing one word or
punctuation mark every few years, slapping a new date on
the document, and thereby restarting their copyright
period.

- Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robart, Kay [mailto:Kay -dot- Robart -at- tea -dot- state -dot- tx -dot- us]
>
> The combined numbers are getting more popular. I used to work
> copyrights
> and trademarks in the 80s, but I may be out of date. At that time, the
> law said that you could not copyright information before it was
> published, so if you were using one date, it should say
> "2010," because
> not all of the information covered in the document was
> written in 2009.
> I don't think there is anything wrong with saying 2009-2010,
> though, to
> cover all the content of the document.
>
> Kay Robart

Thanks.

I thought there was a concern in the OTHER direction, that
you (society) didn't want people changing one word or
punctuation mark every few years, slapping a new date on
the document, and thereby restarting their copyright
period.

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