
Staying Current: Automating Copyright Year Updates
Automate copyright year updates across JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue, jQuery, PHP, and WordPress so footers do not go stale each January across stacks.
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Copyright is the legal right we are granted as we create original works, to control its use and distribution. Typically this is intended to allow the creator to receive compensation for their investment into the intellectual property.
Below you will find a subset of articles from my blog specifically about Copyright. This is a topic I have worked with for many years, although it has not been one I have written about often. There are three articles collected here so far, which you can see and read below.

Automate copyright year updates across JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue, jQuery, PHP, and WordPress so footers do not go stale each January across stacks.

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