Blog Copyright is a simple wordpress plugin by the Blog Traffic Exchange. It injects a copyright notice into the blog footer. You can see it in action on this very site.
The copyright notice automatically updates the year range as time goes on removing the need to ever revisit your copyright once the plugin is put in place…
For example, this website was started in 2008. So between the start date and the end of 2008, the copyright notice will look like this…
© 2008 Blog Traffic Exchange All Rights Reserved
Beginning in 2009 the copyright notice will automatically change to…
© 2008-2009 Blog Traffic Exchange All Rights Reserved
and so on and so forth.
You can adjust a variety of options including the starting year and the rights reserved statement.
I would like to thank Tough Money Love for pointing out the need for an accurate and legally binding copyright notice. For those interested the notice requirement is in Section 401 of the Copyright Act of 1976. While the display on the copyright notice is not required in order to copyright the blog (thanks to the Berne Convention Implementation Act amending the Copyright Act of 1976), failure to use a notice provides an opportunity to an infringer to claim that the infringement was “innocent” and therefore can reduce or eliminate recovery of damages from that infringed by the copyright owner. This is a particular concern in the blogosphere where copying of content is rampant by folks who claim not to know any better. Use of the notice takes that “I didn’t know any better” defense away.
For this reason alone, not using a proper notice is silly.
For more FAQ about copyright see the US Copyright Office FAQ.
Installation
- Download
- Unzip
- Upload Folder to WordPress Plugins Folder
- Activate Plugin
- Adjust Options if needed.
Options
- Copyright Header — Html to start copyright tag.
- Starting Year — This is the first year the copyright existed.
- Org Header — HTML to start organization name.
- Organization — The name of the organization claiming copyright.
- Org Footer — HTML to end organization name.
- URL — Link to the organization website.
- Rights Reserved — The rights reserved.
- Copyright Footer — Html to end copyright tag.
- Automatically Add to Footer — If no or your theme doesnt call wp_footer, then you will need to place the tag:
<?php if (function_exists('bte_bc_tag')) { bte_bc_tag(); } ?>
Download
- BlogCopyright Current Version 1.5
Donate
Blog Copyright Options
Change Log
- 7/12/09 – 1.6 – Tested and Confirmed on WordPress 2.8.1
- 1/22/09 – 1.5 – Refactored code to incorporate my learning and to ease long term maintenance.
- 1/1/09 – 1.4.1 – Better displaying of html in the copyright statement.
- 12/28/08 – 1.4 – Better html handling within options page.
- 12/22/08 – 1.3 – Added organization header and footer.
- 12/22/08 – 1.2 – Added ability to change organization and url. Pushed to into WordPress Repository.
- 12/20/08 – 1.1 – Release to public.
Originally posted 2009-02-05 05:30:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Related Posts -
Advantages of Using Wordpress to Publish a Newspaper Blog If you want to have a blog or website that's in newspaper format, Wordpress is the ideal medium. There are many other services you could use, but because Wordpress is so user friendly it's easy to set up your blog to look like a newspaper (or a website, or whatever...... -
Tips for Writing a Successful Blog One of the biggest keys when it comes to keeping a successful blog is to provide content that is perceived to be exceptional. The following five tips are designed to ensure that the blog posts that you write are getting read, and also that they are encouraging your readers to...... -
Review of WordPress Plugin Development One of the most well known publishers around the globe right now is Packet Publishing, and thy specialize in the development of CMS web applications and open source technologies as well. CMS stands for content management system, and WordPress is an example of what a CMS is capable of. Packet...... -
SEO Principles for WordPress Blogs WordPress is a relatively SEO friendly blogging tool to begin with. It offers a linking structure that makes it relatively easy for spiders to crawl your pages, and the code contains very little validation errors if any at all. However, there are a few additional steps that you can follow...... -
Wordpress Backup Wordpress Backup is an essential plugin for all Wordpress blog administrators by the Blog Traffic Exchange. It performs regular backups of your upload (images) current theme, and plugin directories. Backup files are available for download and optionally emailed to a specified email. Don't get caught without a recent backup of......
Related Websites -
Free Blog Traffic with Related Websites Plugin Are you frustrated with paid advertising where you get less traffic than what you paid for? Â Do you want your posts to be advertised forever instead of a certain time period for free? Â There is a cool plugin called Related Websites Plugin from Blog Traffic Exchange that lets you display...... -
Easy Ways to Increase Organic Visitors to Your Corporate Blog In many people’s opinion, organic traffic is the best. It’s free, it’s targeted and nine times out of ten, you’ll get a much better response, whether it’s for a company promotion, getting readers to your blog and building up solid relationships. Let’s take a look at just a few easy...... -
Last Chance Millionaire The book "Last Chance Millionaire" by Douglas R. Andrew was interesting to me, if only for the lack of depth. It reminded me of the original "Twilight Zone" TV series in this regard - every episode could be summarized in about three sentences or one minute of action, and the...... - My Scary Health Insurance Choices I figured since it was Halloween l would post about something really scary...My Health Insurance Options and Premiums. Considering it is open enrollment for season I am sure most people are facing the same decisions. My Health Insurance In the 3 years I have been writing on My Journey to......
-
Prosper Returns Beat S&P 500 I received an email last night from Prosper claiming that "Prosper Beat the S&P 500" Did you know that the average loan on Prosper is outperforming the 2-year return on the S&P 500? Smart lenders like you have already discovered that lending on Prosper is a great way to earn......
- Simplicity Vacuum Cleaners Housekeeping & Organization Home Store
- Carpet Shampooers Housekeeping & Organization Home Store
- Steamers Laundry Supplies Housekeeping & Organization Home Store
- Gas Exchange Seedlings Aquatic Plants Plants, Seeds & Bulbs Gardening & Plants Yard, Garden & Outdoor Living Nursery
- Kirby Vacuum Cleaners Housekeeping & Organization Home Store
Categories:
BlogCopyright, Blogging, Plugins
Tags:
38 comments ↓
Nice one, Thanks!
Thanks! Just added it to my site!
I will recommend this plugin to all my clients.
Nice. I would suggest an option to replace the name of the blog with whatever string one desires.
Thanks,
Francisco
@fahirsch
Good idea… and I made it so you can set the url to anything you want to…
Version 1.2 with these changes was pushed into he wordpress repository or can now be downloaded from here.
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
Version 1.2 Great! By the way, you should modify this page so it reflects the new options.
A suggestion either for the plugin or users: when you put the Organization name, write it between strong tags so it stands out.
@fairsch
Another good idea… that has been implemented in 1.3
That’s fast! Thanks again
A simple idea nicely implemented!
It’s a great extra when combined with a Creative Commons License, albeit there still is ZERO legal Intellectual Property Rights in the US, anyway. It is in the House now, but Xmas and such. Thanks so much, what you do for us is greatly appreciated. Peace, Rhoda
On a site I am working on, I want to have the copyright notice floated right. But when I try to add a class to the header line, it gets 2 \s added to the line. Instead of class=”alignright” it reads class=\”alignright\”
This obviously does not work for styling.
I also noticed that when I look at the source, there are 2 tags right next to each other. It is on the source for this page too. I am using version 1.4.
@Tom
Nice catch… I have confirmed both of these. I will have a have fixe for both by the end of the day.
great plugin, im using it..
thanks..
nice work..
@Tom
1.4.1 fixes the ” issue. Thanks again for pointing it out.
Great idea and hassle free! My kind of plugin – thanks for all the updates!
Thanks for the quick turnaround. Unfortunately, another problem has shown up, but I don’t know if it is from your plugin or the theme I am using.
On the web site I have it on, http://www.brincefield.net/rc/, in Firefox the footer is broken if I add in the alignright class to float the copyright notice to the right. I have tried using div instead of p, both mess it up. Is this from the plugin or should I bother the theme creator?
@Tom
I can say with confidence that the FF/IE difference in behavior is css related (your theme) and not the plugin.
Personally I prefer EFF, the ACLU or the Commons, they are free, legal and 0 work, I am a non-profit and every wee bit helps. No ads. Not very business like in 2009 to steal others customers.
Peace,
Roe VFP, advocate of IVAW, VVAW, VAT/Squadron13
Kevin,
Yes, that is what I am afraid of. I guess I will ask the theme creator to take a look at it, since php is out of my league. Thanks for the plugin.
@Tom
The problem is not php… It is CSS (cascading style sheets).
Thank you for this plugi n so usefull
Great plugin, however I thought I’d drop you a comment to tell you that “Organization” on the plugin’s menu is mispelled as “Organizaion”.
Thanks for this easy to use plugin.
It’d be nice to have the option that when the Org URL is left blank, there’s no hyperlink on the Organization name. I’ve worked around this manually for now, but I think that would be a nice (easy) addition.
Thanks for the nice plugin!
thanx 4 the plugin
Thanks a lot.
Really helpful for me.
Great Plugin. Executes well.
Sweet blog. I never know what I am going to come across next. I think you should do more posting as you have some pretty intelligent stuff to say.
I’ll be watching you .
Great idea. I have just installed the plug-in
Is something like this available for blogspot? i just had stuff taken from blog without permission and printed.
My blogspot site is in the process of being migrated to a Word Press self hosted site but I know you can manually add and delete portions of the code and formatting in your blogger template in the edit html tab under customize in the dashboard. If the developers can provide you with manual coding or a stock code that you edit to indicate you own the rights to the site. I set up a post template for my blogger in the options that has an originally posted by … at … which shows at the start of every post before the main content – this would be an alternate option to create your own for a blogger site.
Greetings, the color of text used for the copyright does not go well with my theme at all.
Is there a way to change the color of the text? Other than that, great plugin!
@Derek
both the html placed on the site, as well as the css style sheets that apply to it are fully in your control.
Please advise how to center the notice (currently left) and how to decrease the font size.
Otherwise, it works great. Thanks.
i’m very tech unsavy and don’t quite get how to get this copyright onto my blog (on wordpress) ???
I’m like Rebecca – no coding experience or knowledge at all. I can’t find a plugins menu on wordpress, I can’t find a plugins folder on my computer….Argh!
Can you please point me to some plug-ins-for-dummies info?
Thank you!
@philippa
Your blog is at wordpress.com… WordPress.com is not the same as wordpress.org. They limit what plugins you have available.
Ah! Thanks for the clarification. I thought .com was where the blogs sat and .org was the support site. Such a rookie!
Nice little nifty plugin. Will install it soon, hope it works with my 2.6 old WP version.
Leave a Comment