Short YouTube video (conversation between Tom and Tracy Hazzard) advising podcasters to keep copyright dates current on their podcast and website to protect intellectual property. They recommend updating the copyright line annually via the podcast host (or have a producer like Potati handle it) and suggest using a date range on websites to show longevity.
You can update this one right away. It's a copyright date. On your podcast, there is a copyright line and you should keep it up to date. This is your, you know, claim to the world that your content is your own and the copyright date should always be up to date.
This is a critical thing. You're also not protecting your cop, your copyrighted content. You're not protecting your intellectual property if you don't state it. That is critically important. So make sure that you update this. It's easy to update. You go into your hosting subscription to wherever you're hosting your show, and all you have to do is go in there and make an adjustment. If we're producing your show at Potati, we take care of it. We globally do it across all of our shows every single year. So you don't have to worry about that. But not everybody does that. So make sure you're checking for yourself. And then also, as long as you're doing that, check your website too, because a lot of you are publishing and should be publishing on your website, and your website has a copyright date on the bottom line as well. Tom and I have always been a big fan of doing the date range because it gives people a sense of how long you've been doing it. But as long as you're currently publishing and you're covering the date that you're in, it's. It's fine. So just make sure you do that. That's one simple, simple, easy one. And a housekeeping item you should do every year. An essential thing.
