RE: Two questions about Copyright notices

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

For software manuals, I include a copyright date on my very first draft,
and it specifies the current year.

At some companies, it specifies previous years as well (e.g. (c)
2008-2010), but Your Lawyers May Vary.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robart, Kay
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 9:01 AM
> To: Dan Goldstein; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Two questions about Copyright notices
> 
> I was actually talking about software manuals, which have a 
> shorter gestation period. Of course, if you start writing a 
> novel in 2007 or even write down your ideas for it, it is 
> copyrightable in 2007 (although you might have to have a way 
> to prove it, which is where the mailing yourself something in 
> a sealed envelope comes in) even if you publish in 2010. But 
> my point is that it's not copyrightable in 2006.
> 


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