Exhausted Copyright

Excellent point, i'll post this in the mod forums at once....how very important.

Well done for spotting this....

Although updating the notice is a good idea, it is not actually necessary. Literary works become automatically protected under copyright law as soon as they are put into a tangible form, which includes publishing on a web site.

The Berne Convention of 1988 established an international agreement that copyright protection begins automatically when the work is first created. Notices are no longer required.

A copyright generally lasts until 70 years after the death of the author.

In present usage, copyright notices only serve the purpose of advising others to whom the ownership rights belong.