On 01/19/2018 06:34 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote:
> should be "2012-2018" now. A lawyer (^2) that specialises in copyright law should be able to explain the legal rationale. The only part I understood was that with the hyphen, one loses rights, but with individual date listings, one retains, or even gains rights. (^1) At a minimum, run it past legal-discuss, before implementing the change. I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. ^1: This is a similar situation to including "All Rights Reserved" in the copyright line. In the United States "All Rights Reserved" does not currently add any additional rights. However, prior to 1978 (I think), it did add specific rights, in the United States. Furthermore, in some countries in South America (Argentina & Chile, IIRC) it still adds specific rights to the copyright. ^2: I don't remember if it is South African, UK, US, Canadian, or Mexican copyright law that loses rights, when a hyphen is used. jonathon
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