Ask HN: What is the point of “© 2020 CompanyName” in website footers?
Copyright is automatic.  You don't need a notice, you own the copyright as soon as it's fixed into a tangible medium – basically when you hit save.  It can confer some advantages in some countries if you sue somebody for copyright infringement.  Are you planning on doing that rather than simply forcing a takedown if somebody copies your website?  No?  Then don't bother.<p>Being realistic, you see copyright notices on websites because people see them elsewhere and assume they are necessary and add them to their own sites without thought.  Then other people see <i>those</i> notices and assume the same thing.  It's a vicious circle.  Lots of people copying others who don't know what they are doing.<p>It's why every year on New Year's Day you get a bunch of people going "It's 20xx, update your footers!" and more people saying you should just automatically show the current year.  The copyright notice isn't there to tell you what the current year is – everybody knows what the current year is – it's there to tell you what year the work was first published.