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Should my website have a copyright notice in the footer?

Legal · Polish · vibeliq reports this as “Nothing says who owns this site”

Why it matters

A © line with your name isn't legally required, but it tells visitors (and copycats) who's behind the site and that the content is yours.

How to check it yourself

Scroll to the bottom of your site. No © line with a name means nothing on the page says who owns it.

What the fix involves

Add '© year, your name or company' to the footer and generate the year automatically so it never goes stale.

How vibeliq checks it

We load your page the way a visitor's browser would, read what your server sends back, and look at a short list of well-known addresses on your site. If this turns up, your report explains it in plain English and gives you a prompt, written for Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable or whatever built your site, that fixes it in your actual codebase.

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