[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26776: Copyright setting field

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#26776: Copyright setting field
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 Reporter:  Daedalon         |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  General          |     Version:  3.8
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:  close            |
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Comment (by Daedalon):

 Nacin and Johnbillion, thank you for your comments. I may have written
 unclearly as I wanted to stick to the point. I didn't discuss court
 proceedings or other legal measures for the reason that a copyright claim
 is not a proof of copyright, as you state. Most of the online copyright
 cases never go to court as that would be too expensive in comparison to
 the potential gains.

 When you email an ISP informing that their customer is infringing your
 copyright, in EU and in the US (DMCA) the ISP is required to take the
 content down unless your claim seems invalid (that "unless" part is often
 not well defined in law, so YMMV). This is as far as the majority of
 copyright infringements go, and making incorrect copyright claims in your
 site footer is not in the copyright holders' interests. However, we're
 getting sidetracked here.

 The point is that a copyright field is very commonly wanted and used. So
 commonly that I'm not sure it's in the community's best interests to
 require every theme author to reinvent the wheel. The only viable non-core
 alternative I see is an officially endorsed plugin that theme authors are
 recommended to support. I look forward to comments.

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