A Copyright Line As Feeding For Your Footer

In the European legal area, exploitation rights inherently belong to the author of a work. She does not have to do anything else. In the American legal area, things are different. There, every work falls into the ‘public domain’ by default. Only when the author actively claims her ‘copyright’, the work belongs to her. Thus, having in copyright line in your footer could be helpful for you:

But what happens with original European works in the American legal area? Without claiming authorship, they probably fall into the public domain. So an author is well advised to mark her European publications with a copyright notice, even if this seems superfluous from the European viewpoint.¹ And so she should keep it with her Internet sites.

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Solution

Add the following line to the file scss/_bscore_custom.scss of your child theme:

.bootscore-copyright {display: none;}

Add a text box to the new widget Footer Info arising under Appearance/Widgets.
Enter a text line starting with ‘©’ YEAR Author-Name’.

Background

Until version bootScore 5.2.3.3, we had to create a widget for the copyright line ourselves and activate it in the footer.php file. With version 5.2.3.4, the bootScore authors have thankfully taken this idea of an editable CR-Line and provided the widget ‘Footer Info’ for it. In this sense, I have updated the solution and background information.

So, eventually, there is the question of location and copyright sign in the line. In this case, the form is rather secondary: you are not obliged to use the HTML tag $copy; for ©. You can also use images like or — very old-fashioned — the string (C). You also do not need to add a town or a country. In case of dispute, you only have to prove that You are You. That’s why I often add my place of residence and my nation. Does that work? No idea. I’m not a lawyer and I don’t give advice; I just tell. And I have never been involved in a dispute.