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
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