Rolf wrote:

The date on a copyright notice should reflect the year in which the
copyright work (all of it) was created.

In a basic sense... if you have a document that says 'Copyright 2009',
but, the content (or a portion of it) was created in 2000, and someone
out there made a copy of your document in 2005, then, is it a copy of
your document in a legal sense, since your copyright notice claims your
content was created in 2009?

How can someone have copied your work before it was authored?
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This would be addressed by Bob Blick's suggestion ((C) 199x-200x).

You failed to explain what would be the difference b/w updating the year by 
hand, or having a script to it.

Vitaliy

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