RE: Two questions about Copyright notices

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

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 and trademarks in the 80s, but I may be out of date.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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