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©2008 Google Forgive my ignorance, but why don't companies program the copyright year to automatically update?

The year is supposed to be the first year the work was created. You can do 2008-2012 if you want though (and let the end year automatically update). But since that's the assumption if you don't include the end year, there isn't any reason to do it.

Re: Google is reporting itself as a malware distributor.

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©2008 Google Forgive my ignorance, but why don't companies program the copyright year to automatically update?

The year is supposed to be the first year the work was created. You can do 2008-2012 if you want though (and let the end year automatically update). But since that's the assumption if you don't include the end year, there isn't any reason to do it.

Facebook © 2012

The content of Facebook wasn't first created in 2012, so I'm not sure if you're correct. In fact, I've noticed that the majority of sites don't include a date-range. Regardless, thanks for the info.

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