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Update: please see comments.

Take a look at this:

http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2008/03/24/dry-a-year-after-year

Surely this is completely pointless, I mean no rails programmer (or customer) died over 20 years ago. In the case of corporate copyright, the ‘owner’ is the company, so that could be a very very long time away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Duration

Legally this is pointless, it’s just aesthetic. Am I missing something?

I mean, so stern, using words like ‘guilty’ and ‘offense’…

I wonder if this is what planet argon charge their customers for. Three days of heavy “z0mg, you’re datez are teh wronGZ!!oneone”. I don’t know, but this kind of article, given the law behind it (and apparent lack of knowledge, or understanding) seems to scare me, personally. Can you trust these ‘consultancy’ firms to do what you need, as opposed to what they ‘think’. If I’d paid for someone to write 5 lines of code from my app, into what’s maybe 200 lines of config and cruft for a plugin, that makes only a minor aesthetic difference to a site, at the cost of some performance I might add, and potentially actually damaging copyright (by inconsistency), I’d be seriously seriously pissed.

Imagine archive.org lose you’re site, and you come up for a copyright case. The other side can prove they’ve been “ON IT” since 1995, and you’ve only got copyright for this year. Damn, that would really suck, if you care.

Of course, I do hope I’m missing something, and someone comes here to put me in my place.

Sorry to Robby, and Planet Argon, you just caught my eye. I’m sure the work they do is actually great, I mean, this is attention to code detail, so that’s something at least.