I only just noticed this, and snipped it from the opening credits and title page. Isn't there a legal implication for not displaying the correct years for which copyright has been secured. Just saying....
(I'm sure some legal eagle will have got this covered - when not engaged on yet another pirate massacre mission or Community Goal hauling enterprise)
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they won't see it here. have to put attention legal in an email: query@frontier.co.uk
Not really, copyright is automatic.
No. I've written code, I own the copyright to it, that copyright doesn't expire if I don't state each and every year that the copyright is valid, and there is no legal issue with not stating it because as Crank Larson says there are existing rules to copyright that apply automatically, usually contained in government acts such as The Australian Copyright Act 1948.
As others mentioned, those copyright notices are only informational in nature and have no real legal meaning. Copyright law does not require nor look at whether you have written that notice somewhere or not. (Of course IANAL. In some lawsuits it might be an aggravating circumstance because the lawyers could argue "you had no excuse, the notification was right there for you to see.")
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Yes, also keep in mind the rules are different for things like trademarks, they are not controlled by copyright law but by IP protections that differ markedly, in some cases Trademark IP will lapse if the owner of the Trademark doesn't protect the trademark from infringement, so don't get those confused.