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Re: Black Design – Design tools for early stage startup founders

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Great concept! Minor feedback/nit: bottom of landing page is (c) 2016 in Aug 2018.

Copyright notices aren't there to tell you what the current year is. What would the point of that be? Everybody knows what the current year is.

Copyright notices are there to declare when a creative work was created. That's when the copyright term starts. If you just set it to the current year you're lying about when the copyright expires and it renders the notice invalid (at least in the USA).

In this case, you can see from the Wayback Machine that this was, in fact, created in 2016 [0]. So that copyright notice is correct, and you're implying it should be changed to be incorrect.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20161128194614/http://www.black....

There's already tonnes of bad advice out there telling people that copyright notices should always display the current year. Please don't spread this idea.

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