Re: **Take note** W3C changes its copyright notice in 2023

Good call!

—tobie

Mar 03 janv 2023, à 14:21, Coralie Mercier a écrit :
> Dear all,
>
> Further to feedback and internal discussion, we made the last minute 
> change to remove “Inc.” from the copyright statement that will apply to 
> /TR new docs after January 2023.
>
> Rationale: There is no legal requirement that the legal structure of 
> the Consortium needs to appear in the copyright statement, and since 
> several people internally and externally shared with us a worry that 
> using “Inc.” or “Incorporated” might mislead people or trigger 
> inadequate associations. Because we will continue to develop web 
> standards and specifications according to the same Process Document, 
> there is no need to create any confusion, so “Inc.” was removed from 
> the copyright notice that will apply to new documents in 2023 after the 
> grace period.
>
> All of the requirements and guidelines for W3C specifications 
> publication are part of “PubRules” which our Webmaster Denis has 
> already updated. Here is the section on copyright:
>   https://www.w3.org/pubrules/doc/rules/?profile=WD#copyright
>
> Tab, Denis will (if he hasn’t already) take care of updating the pull 
> request for Bikeshed.
>
> Happy new year, everyone!
>
> Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications
>
>
>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:24:40 -0500, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> The copyright notice of W3C will become, starting January 1st 2023:
>> [[
>> <p class="copyright"><a 
>> href="
>> https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright
>> ">Copyright</a> 
>> © 2023 <a href="
>> https://www.w3.org/
>> "> World Wide Web Consortium, 
>> Inc.</a>. W3C<sup>®</sup> <a 
>> href="
>> https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Legal_Disclaimer
>> ">liability</a>, 
>> <a 
>> href="
>> https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#W3C_Trademarks
>> ">trademark</a> 
>> and <a 
>> href="
>> https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software
>> ">permissive 
>> document license</a> rules apply.</p>
>> ]]
>> 
>> 
>> Documents published in 
>> https://www.w3.org/TR
>>  will have one month to 
>> update the copyright notice in publication. We will start rejecting 
>> documents with the improper notice after January 2023.
>> 
>> If you use respec or bikeshed, those tools should take care of this for 
>> you. Make sure to update them before the end of January if you have a 
>> local copy.
>> 
>> Associated pull requests:
>> Respec:
>>    
>> https://github.com/w3c/respec/pull/4332
>> 
>> Bikeshed:
>>   
>> https://github.com/tabatkins/bikeshed-boilerplate/pull/30
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Philippe
>
> --
> Coralie Mercier  -  Head of W3C Marketing & Communications 
> mailto:coralie@w3.org - https://www.w3.org/People/Coralie/

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