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macleos on May 16, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What is the point of “© 2020 CompanyName” ...

Not to be pedantic, but wouldn't changing the year to 2020 itself count as a copyrightable change?

thatcat on May 16, 2020 [–]

single words / short phrases aren't copyrightable so probably not

2038AD on May 16, 2020 | [–]

The whole work with the change would still be under copyright

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