The message at the bottom of each page says “copyright 1984-2005”. It’s 2006 we are now free to reprint our posts willy-nilly around the internet! Yippee!
or maybe it just needs to be updated?
The message at the bottom of this page:
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That’s merely the year the copyright is effective from. It is NOT an expiration. In any case, you’ve always been free to reprint your own posts.
That’s the software copyright. The content of the Board is a separate copyright: “Contents of the Straight Dope Message Board and the Straight Dope Web site are copyright 1984-2005 by the Chicago Reader, Inc.”
Yeah, I’m dumb. It’s okay though, because I have a nice rack.
Cite? 
Wait, you’re not a guy?
… no?
Being The SDMB, ya know it’s coming…
Cite?
Eli
Oh, poor Eliphalet! A bit too late to be first.
You guys sure are a clever bunch. I never would’ve expected cite-demanding posts after such a claim as the one I made… never in a million years. 
After re-reading my post I was hoping no one would call me on that. It was a small hope.
If it is no longer effctive wouldn’t be expired?
Fap fap fah fuh uh…
fap…
Fap.
Frak.
No, I said “effective from”. Think of it as the start date.
If it’s a start date, what’s the meaning of the range? I guess I can look at my own “start date.” I would normally express it as “May 16, 1969.” I can now say 1969-2006. I began in that span of time
It’s true, then: Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
The range covers the start date of the earliest copyrightable portion of the work through to the most recent.
I thought Jerry did it and Jerry musta thought I did it.
So there.
TubaDiva
O RLY?
Well then, check these hooters:
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{0,0} {o,0}
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I’ve met her in real life. I can vouch.
NO WAI!